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1843
Apr 2
| 1843 • Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
1850
Age: 6y
| 1850 • The first settlers for the settlement of Christchurch arrive at the Port of Lyttelton (New Zealand). |
1860
Age: 16y
| 1860 • Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party. |
1864
Age: 20y
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militaryJefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ William was drafted into the Civil War into the Union Army under J.F. Benjamin. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1864 • American Civil War – Battle of Mobile Bay: At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports. |
1873
Mar 25
Age: 29y
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marriageHarriet Madison Jenkins Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1873 • Battle of Mañeru (Third Carlist War): In continued campaigning in Navarre, Spanish Republican General Domingo Moriones meets a Carlist force under Nicolás Ollo at Mañeru, near Puente de la Reina, in a hard-fought but indecisive action. While both sides claim victory, the Carlists are said to have had the advantage, and a month later Moriones is repulsed in a costly assault further west against Estella |
1874
Feb 5
Age: 30y
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birth of childAlta Janetta Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1874 • Heart of Midlothian. |
1878
Mar 11
Age: 34y
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birth of childEstella Mary Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1878 • Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire. |
1880
Dec 18
Age: 37y
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birth of childLula Bell Miller Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, USA ⇓ 6 Sources ⇓ |
| 1880 • Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. |
1887
Aug
Age: 44y
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birth of childCharles Dewitt Miller Jefferson, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1887 • The Catholic University of America is founded on Easter Sunday. |
1900
Jun 15
Age: 57y
| 1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later. |
1910
Age: 66y
1926
Dec 3
Age: 83y
| 1926 • The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). |