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1823
Sep
| 1823 • Raffles Institution established as the Singapore Institution by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles. |
1843
Age: 19y
| 1843 • In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod is the first non-white person elected to the House of Assembly. |
about
Age: 22y
1846
Age: 22y
marriageJohn McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ |
| 1846 • Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased Emperor Ninko of Japan, becomes Emperor Kōmei. |
1847
Sep 14
Age: 24y
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birth of childJames McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1847 • Mexican–American War – The Battle of Buena Vista: 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day. |
1849
Aug 24
Age: 25y
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birth of childJohn M McGinnis Jr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1849 • Second Anglo-Sikh War – British forces retreat from the Battle of Tooele. |
1851
Age: 27y
| 1851 • Mongkut (Rama IV) is crowned King of Siam at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. |
1854
Jan
Age: 30y
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birth of childArthur McGinnis Sr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1854 • The United States packet ship Powhattan is wrecked off the New Jersey shore with more than 200 + victims. |
1855
Jun 14
Age: 31y
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birth of childSarah M McGinnis Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1855 • Alexander II of Russia ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I. |
1858
Apr 11
Age: 34y
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birth of childHugh Patrick McGinnis Jr. Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1858 • Police of the Papal States seize Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara and take him away to be raised as a Catholic. |
1871
Age: 47y
| 1871 • Following the invasion of the Paris Commune by Government troops, 147 Communards, the last defenders of the workers' district of Belleville, are shot, on the last day of the "Bloody Week" (Semaine Sanglante) in which the Commune is crushed. |
1881
Age: 57y
| 1881 • William Edward Forster, the chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspended habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence could be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. |
1890
Age: 66y
| 1890 • Léon Bourgeois succeeds Jean Antoine Ernest Constans as French Minister of the Interior. |
1900
Age: 76y
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residenceSeattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ Is living with her daughter Sarah and her husband Patrick. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1900 • The Second Boer War: At the Battle of Spion Kop, Boer troops defeat the British Army. |
1903
Dec 26
Age: 80y
| 1903 • Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference. |
1903
Dec 29
burialChatham, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ Buried in Calvary Cemetery. |
| 1903 • Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" under the terms of the Cuban–American Treaty. |