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1823
| 1823 • Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. |
1844
Jul 18
Age: 21y
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marriageCatharine Jessup Parke, Indiana, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1844 • The Bahá'í calendar begins. |
1847
Jan 14
Age: 24y
| 1847 • Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. |
1847
May 9
Age: 24y
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birth of childMinerva Lowry Indiana, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1847 • After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. |
1848
Nov 13
Age: 25y
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birth of childCharles Henry Lowry Indiana, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1848 • Start of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. |
1850
Aug 7
Age: 27y
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residenceParke, Indiana ⇓ A Julia Lowry aged 12 is living with them. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1850 • The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (the Waltham Watch Company). |
1850
Aug 7
Age: 27y
| 1850 • The traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri's founding. This is the date on which it is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "Town of Kansas". |
1851
Jan 9
Age: 28y
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birth of childAndrew Thomas Lowry Iowa, USA ⇓ Right after he was born they moved back to Indiana. 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1851 • The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. |
1852
Age: 29y
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residenceElk River, Clinton, Iowa, USA ⇓ They moved there around 1852. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1852 • Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces entered Hunan. |
1852
Dec 29
Age: 30y
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birth of childJaretta Ann Lowry Indiana, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1852 • The Second Burmese War began. |
1856
Age: 33y
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residenceElk River, Iowa, USA ⇓ At the time, they owned a 100 acres of unimproved land and 70 acres of improved (farmed) land. They had been resident in the state for five years. Living right next to George T Lowry. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1856 • Kate Warne, the first female private detective, begins to work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. |
1856
Jun 1
Age: 33y
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birth of childEmily Jane Lowry Iowa, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1856 • Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross. |
1860
Jun 8
Age: 37y
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residenceElk River, Iowa, USA ⇓ He had two children, Albert born in roughly 1855, and Mary E. born in roughly 1860 who both died in early childhood. Albert appears on the 1856 census, and Mary E. appears on this 1860. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1860 • Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria. |
1863
Jul 1
Age: 40y
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militaryElk River, Iowa, USA ⇓ Civil War draft registration for the Union. In 1863, the U.S. Federal Government began drafting all men 20-45 for the civil war until 1865 at the war's end. He was drafter under Philo E. Hall, Provost Marshall. 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1863 • Robert College of Istanbul–Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. |
1864
Mar
Age: 41y
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birth of childClara May Lowry Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1864 • American Civil War – Battle of Cherbourg: Confederate States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in a single-ship action with USS Kearsarge in the English Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. |
1865
Jan 14
Age: 42y
deathClinton, Iowa, USA ⇓ Presumably in the Civil War. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1865 • American Civil War: United States forces capture Fort Fisher. |