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1860
Jan 16
| 1860 • The first Japanese embassy to the United States arrive in San Francisco. |
1877
Jan 20
Age: 17y
birth of childMinnie Belle Thornton Cassville, Barry, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1877 • The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon. |
1878
Feb 14
Age: 18y
marriageFrances Jane Stroud Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • Russia rejects a British proposal to lay the San Stefano treaty before a European congress. |
1878
Oct 11
Age: 18y
birth of childLillian Mae Thornton Sequoia County, Oklahoma Territory, USA ⇓ |
| 1878 • Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina is published complete in book form in Moscow. |
1882
Oct 29
Age: 22y
marriageIda May Shepherd Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1882 • The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys). |
1884
Feb
Age: 24y
birth of childWilliam Henry Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1884 • A severe earthquake, magnitude 5.5, (intensity VII) occurs off the northeast Atlantic coast of the United States. The area affected extends from central Virginia to southern Maine, and west as far as Cleveland. |
1885
Oct 17
Age: 25y
birth of childNora Belle Thornton Barry County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1885 • The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is founded. |
1887
Jan 22
Age: 27y
birth of childSarah Jane Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1887 • The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, as passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. |
1890
Jul
Age: 30y
birth of childWalter Cyrus Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1890 • In Michigan, the wooden steamer Ryan is lost near Thunder Bay Island. |
1893
Apr 1
Age: 33y
birth of childCora Ann Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1893 • Dundee F.C., a Scottish football club, is formed. |
1895
Nov 23
Age: 35y
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birth of childJohn Thomas Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1895 • Gongche Shangshu movement: 603 candidates sign a 10,000-word petition against the Treaty of Shimonoseki. |
1898
Aug 17
Age: 38y
birth of childArch Thornton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1898 • Wilhelm van Berkel invents the Berkel meat slicer, the first meat slicer in Rotterdam. |
1906
Aug 4
Age: 46y
| 1906 • The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time. |