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1823
Mar 27
1823 • Work begins on the British Museum in London, designed by Robert Smirke, and the Altes Museum in Berlin, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. |
1830
Age: 6y
1830 • The London Protocol establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. |
1839
Oct 20
Age: 16y
birth of childRichard Henry Johnson Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1839 • William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. |
1839
Nov 14
Age: 16y
marriageJacob Marmon Johnson Union, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ Married at the Indian Prairie Baptist Church by Rev. John H. Thompson 5 Sources ⇓ |
1839 • The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River. |
1839
Nov 14
Age: 16y
marriageJacob Marmon Johnson Franklin, Missouri, USA ⇓ Married at the Indian Prairie Baptist Church by Rev. John H. Thompson 3 Sources ⇓ |
1839 • In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a railway between Naples and Portici (7.4 km length) is inaugurated by H.M. King Ferdinand II of Bourbon (the first railway in the Italian peninsula). |
1840
Age: 16y
residenceSt. John, Franklin, Missouri, USA ⇓ She was in the household of Jacob Marmon Johnson, living three houses away from her father James Davidson. 1 Source ⇓ |
1840 • The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed. |
1842
Sep
Age: 19y
birth of childIsrael Cicero Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1842 • Wesleyan University |
1845
Feb 22
Age: 21y
birth of childEliza C Johnson Franklin County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1845 • Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia. |
1847
Nov 9
Age: 24y
birth of childAlva Washington Johnson Franklin County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
1847 • 29 – Sonderbund War, a civil war in Switzerland in which General Guillaume-Henri Dufour's federal army defeats the Sonderbund (an alliance of seven Catholic cantons) with a total of only 86 deaths. |
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Age: 26y
1850
Age: 26y
birth of childMary A Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
1850 • The city of Manchester reaches 400,000 inhabitants. |
1850
Age: 26y
1850 • The treaty called Punctation of Olmütz is signed in Olomouc. It means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to the Austrian Empire, which takes over the leadership of the German Confederation. |
1852
Apr 7
Age: 29y
birth of childMelissa J Johnson Franklin County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1852 • Leo Tolstoy's first novel, Childhood, was published in book form. |
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Age: 30y
1854
Age: 30y
birth of childJacob C Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1854 • Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy signs the Treaty/Convention of Kanagawa with the Japanese government (the Tokugawa Shogunate), opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade (see History of Japan). |
about
Age: 31y
1855
Age: 31y
1855 • Taiping Rebellion: A Taiping army of 350,000 invades Anhui. |
1857
Jan 20
Age: 33y
birth of childCharles Albert Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1857 • Indian rebellion of 1857: Indian combatants capture Delhi from the East India Company. |
1859
Apr 21
Age: 36y
birth of childJames Davidson Johnson Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1859 • Brisbane is declared the capital of newly separated colony Queensland, Australia. |
1861
Dec 23
Age: 38y
birth of childMartha E Johnson 1 Source ⇓ |
1861 • President-elect of the United States Abraham Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful |
1865
Sep 16
Age: 42y
1865 • American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River under General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so. |
after
Sep 16
1865
Sep 16
1865 • American Civil War. Surrender to the British at Liverpool of the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah (Captain James Waddell), last significant organized Confederate unit. |