♂ James F Ricketts

1839 - 1893

James F Ricketts
Spouse
Mary Melvina Jenkins
Mary Melvina Jenkins
1841 - 1925

1839


Jul 2
1839 Michael Faraday publishes [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14986/14986-8.txt "Experimental Researches in Electricity"] clarifying the true nature of electricity.

1860


Jul 19
Age: 21y
1860 • After a fiercely contested campaign, Monier Williams is elected as the new Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University.

1893


Jul 28
Age: 54y
1893 • The Durand Line is established as the boundary between British India and Afghanistan by a memorandum of understanding signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan.

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