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1852
Jan 14
| 1852 • Antioch College was founded. Its first president was Horace Mann. |
1870
Jan 16
Age: 18y
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marriageJeremiah J King Mount Vernon, Jefferson, Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1870 • The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion. |
1871
Age: 18y
birth of childRosa L King Illinois, USA ⇓ |
| 1871 • The South Improvement Company is formed by John D. Rockefeller and a group of major railroad interests in an early effort to organize and control the petroleum industry in the U.S.A. |
1874
Age: 21y
birth of childWilliam Augustus King Illinois, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • May 15 – First exhibition of the group of young painters, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, at the studio of the photographer Nadar in Paris. Louis Leroy's critical review of it published on 25 April gives rise to the term Impressionism for the movement, with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise. |
1877
Age: 24y
birth of childEugene Parker King Illinois, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1877 • Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29. |
1880
Age: 27y
| 1880 • A big earthquake struck Zagreb and demolished everything including the Zagreb Cathedral. |
1880
Mar
Age: 28y
birth of childArthur M King Illinois, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1880 • The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven. |
1887
Oct 30
Age: 35y
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birth of childRoyal Carter King Baker, Baker, Oregon, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1887 • Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio). This was an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light. |
1891
Sep
Age: 39y
birth of childJessie Dell King Idaho, USA ⇓ |
| 1891 • Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. |
1900
Age: 47y
| 1900 • The Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. |
1910
Age: 57y
| 1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. |
1923
Oct 23
Age: 71y
| 1923 • Poland annexes the Republic of Central Lithuania |