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1859
Apr 12
1859 • Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended. |
1860
Age: 7m
1860 • Battle of Calatafimi: Troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war. |
1870
Age: 10y
1870 • The Port Adelaide Football Club plays their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia. |
1878
Oct 23
Age: 19y
marriageIsaac Frank Fountain Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1878 • U.S. Coastal Survey renamed U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. |
1880
Jun 4
Age: 21y
1880 • The SS Columbia completes her maiden voyage, arriving without incident in Portland, Oregon after a stopover in San Francisco, California. |
1880
Jul 14
Age: 21y
birth of childFrank Henry Fountain Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
1880 • The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is established. |
1882
Jan 1
Age: 22y
birth of childWilliam Fountain Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
1882 • German medical products company Beiersdorf is founded. |
1883
Sep 29
Age: 24y
birth of childIda Elizabeth Fountain Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA ⇓ |
1900
Jun 14
Age: 41y
1900 • Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith. |
1912
Jun 12
Age: 53y
marriageJoseph Brewster Everett, Snohomish, Washington, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1912 • The Maternity Allowance Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes minorities. |
1937
Jun 19
Age: 78y
1937 • The new Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes "Ireland", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce. |