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1853
| 1853 • Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood independently invent a practical hypodermic syringe. |
1874
Jul
Age: 21y
birth of childClyde Plaster Polk County, Iowa, USA ⇓ |
| 1874 • First Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones men entrenched and waited. |