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1840
Feb 18
| 1840 • Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment premieres in Paris. |
1856
Sep 7
Age: 16y
marriageJoseph W Lawrence Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1856 • U.S. presidential election, 1856: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of "Know-Nothings" and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States. |
1857
Oct
Age: 17y
birth of childWilliam H Lawrence Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1857 • Fort Tejon earthquake: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 strikes near Parkfield, California. |
1867
Jan 8
Age: 26y
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marriageJacob Marmon Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1867 • Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly". |
1869
Feb 23
Age: 29y
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birth of childH. Frank Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1869 • Friedrich Miescher discovers deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). |
1870
Age: 29y
| 1870 • The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University. |
1870
Oct 29
Age: 30y
birth of childClarence Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1870 • Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election. |
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Age: 32y
1873
Age: 32y
birth of childMinerva Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1873 • Battle of Montejurra (Third Carlist War): Determined to recapture the key city of Estella in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones advances on the Carlists under General Joaquín Elío at nearby Montejurra. After very heavy fighting both sides claim victory, but Moriones withdraws and Estella remains in Carlist hands. Don Carlos is present in the front line. |
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Age: 34y
1875
Age: 34y
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birth of childClyde Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1875 • Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. |
1880
Jun 24
Age: 40y
| 1880 • Dorchester Penitentiary opens in Canada. |
1890
Apr 11
Age: 50y
| 1890 • Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty is signed by Great Britain and Germany. |