1831
Jun 9
| 1831 • The Dutch Ten Days' Campaign against Belgium is halted by a French army. |
1854
May 6
Age: 22y
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marriageHariette Elizabeth Dewolfe Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ |
| 1854 • James Ambrose Cutting takes out the first of his three United States patents for improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography). |
1859
Oct 27
Age: 28y
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birth of childGrace Lavinia Clarke 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1859 • Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended. |
1860
Age: 28y
| 1860 • The American South has c. 4 million slaves. |
1870
Age: 38y
| 1870 • Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
1900
Age: 68y
| 1900 • The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris World Exhibition). |
1905
Feb 16
Age: 73y
| 1905 • Kappa Delta Rho is founded in room 14 of Old Painter Hall at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. |