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1796

birth


to 1810.
1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination, in England.

1826


Sep 26
Age: 30y

1828


Mar 30
Age: 32y
1828 • Supposedly Feral child: Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.

1837


Mar 8
Age: 41y
1837 • The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.

1841


Jun 19
Age: 45y

1846


Mar 31
Age: 50y
1846 • Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California.

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