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1826
Dec 23
1826 • The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. |
1826
Dec 24
Age: 1d
1826 • The first railway tunnel is built en route between Liverpool and Manchester in England. |
1851
Age: 23y
residenceNorthumberland, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ Her father was a teacher at the time. 1 Source ⇓ |
1851 • The Fregatten Eugenies ("Frigate Eugenie") leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world. |
1853
Jun 14
Age: 26y
marriageAngus Buckley Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1853 • The first plat for Seattle, Washington is laid out. |
1863
Apr 3
Age: 36y
birth of childMary Margaret Buckley Hardwick, New Brunswick, Canada ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1863 • American Civil War: Battle of Vicksburg – Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army capture the Confederate city Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the town surrenders. The siege lasted 47 days. |
1871
Age: 43y
1871 • Virginia adopts a new Constitution, taking into account, among other things, all of the counties that had left Virginia in 1863 to form the new non-slave state of West Virginia. No other state has ever formed by breaking off from another without the consent of the legislature of the parent state, as in the cases of Vermont, Kentucky, and Maine. |
1875
Mar 13
Age: 48y
1875 • The first Edinburgh derby in Association football is played: Heart of Midlothian F.C. win 1–0 against Hibernian F.C.. |