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1789
Mar 25
| 1789 • At Federal Hall, the United States House of Representatives attains its first quorum and elects congressman Frederick Muhlenberg as the first Speaker of the House. |
1812
Nov 30
Age: 23y
marriageMary Polly Johnson Campbell, Virginia, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1812 • Americans invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario. |
1813
Oct 4
Age: 24y
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birth of childPaulina C Davidson Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1813 • May 9 – War of 1812 – First siege of Fort Meigs by British allied forces under General Henry Proctor and Chief Tecumseh. |
1816
Age: 26y
| 1816 • René Laennec invents the stethoscope. |
1818
Nov 4
Age: 29y
birth of childSamuel M Davidson Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1818 • Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr. |
1820
Age: 30y
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residenceCharlotte, Virginia, USA ⇓ One house away is William W Davidson. On the previous page is an Allen Davidson. They are both aged 26-45. William is one of five men living in the house aged 26-45. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1820 • 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone. |
1823
Mar 27
Age: 34y
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birth of childMary Ann F Davidson Virginia, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1823 • Beginning of the first Anglo-Ashanti war. |
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Age: 35y
1825
Age: 35y
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birth of childJames C Davidson Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1825 • General Hendrik Merkus de Kock lifts the siege of Jogjakarta, the first major action of the Java War. |
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Age: 39y
1829
Age: 39y
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birth of childThomas Davidson Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1829 • The Mexican city of Cuautla, Morelos, is founded. |
1830
Age: 40y
| 1830 • The London Protocol establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. |
1830
Nov 10
Age: 41y
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propertyFranklin, Missouri, USA ⇓ James Davidson purchased 152 acres - the document was signed by president Jackson. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1830 • The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India. |
1831
Apr 1
Age: 42y
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propertyFranklin, Missouri, USA ⇓ Davidson purchases another 80 acres, the document again signed by president Jackson. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1831 • USA: Nat Turner's slave rebellion breaks out in Southampton County, Virginia. |
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Age: 44y
1834
Age: 44y
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birth of childFrank Davidson Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1834 • August 12 – Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston. |
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Age: 46y
1836
Age: 46y
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birth of childMadorah Jane Davidson Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1836 • The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary in Persia. |
1840
Age: 50y
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residenceSt. John, Franklin, Missouri, USA ⇓ They lived three houses away from Jacob Marmon Johnson and their daughter Mary Ann. There is also a Jordan Davidson living two or three pages away. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1840 • Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers ("Study on Glaciers", 2 volumes), the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age. |
1850
Sep 16
Age: 61y
| 1850 • The Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX and future Pope Pius X . |
1854
Jul 4
Age: 65y
deathFranklin County, Missouri, USA ⇓ He and his wife both died in the cholera epidemic. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1854 • James Ambrose Cutting takes out the first of his three United States patents for improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography). |