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1808
Apr 28
| 1808 • Finnish War: The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia. |
1764
Apr
birth of childJames Summerville Tyrone County, Ireland ⇓ |
| 1764 • The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. As of 2014, it is the oldest surviving newspaper in North America. |
1850
Aug 24
Age: 42y
| 1850 • The temperance organisation, International Organisation of Good Templars, is established in Utica, New York, as the order of the Knights of Jericho. |
1870
Jun 22
Age: 62y
| 1870 • Death of English novelist Charles Dickens at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. |
1883
Mar 15
Age: 74y
| 1883 • German bacteriologist Robert Koch discovers the cholera bacillus. |