The Rosetta Stone is brought to England (Feb), Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is published (Mar 3), Madame Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London (May), Napoleon reinstates slavery in the French colonies (May 20), war ends between Sweden and Tripoli (Oct 2), child labor in U.K. factories starts being regulated, pioneering a series of Factory Acts (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born: 1802-xxxx Kamāmalu* Queen consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as the wife of King Kamehameha II - Kawaihae, Hawaii (1824/c. Continue reading

In the year 1820, 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone (Feb 6), Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism (Apr), the last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain takes place as the Cato Street conspirators meet their fate (May 1), the Argentine Confederation established a penal colony in the Falkland Islands, man’s quest in Antarctica widens - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_6008” align=“alignleft” width=“360”]Replica of the Clermont steamboat operating on the North River (now Hudson River)[/caption] In the year 1807, the United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade in its colonies (Jan 22), the Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire - slavery though remains legal until 1833 (Mar 25), the first commercial steamboat service between New York City and Albany starts operating (Aug 17), serfdom is abolished in Prussia by law (Oct 9), the Geological Society of London is founded (Oct 13) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_5887” align=“alignleft” width=“355”]The Louisiana Territory spread over 15 present-day U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.[/caption] In the year 1803, the Swiss Confederation replaces the Helvetic Republic (Feb 19), the Louisiana purchase, involving much more than just Louisiana, is made from France by the United States with $15 million (Apr 30), the Napoleonic Wars between France and the United Kingdom begin (May 18), the first public railway line in England, the wagonway, is opened (Jul 26), major breakthroughs in chemistry occur - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first U.S. President to have his photograph taken (Feb 14), regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States via South America’s Cape Horn begins (Feb 28), the first Kennedy arrives in America (Apr 22), French troops occupy Rome; the Roman Republic surrenders (Jul 3), the French scientist Hippolyte Fizeau measures the speed of light, using a beam of light reflected from a mirror 8 kilometers away (Jul 23), the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 ends, with no independence yet for the Magyars - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_5339” align=“alignright” width=“341”]Statue of Simon Bolivar in Paris, France[/caption] In the year 1825, Simon Bolivar gives up his title of dictator of Peru, and is now called El Libertador (Feb 10), the Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west (Feb 12), Uruguay secedes from Brazil (Jul 18), Bolivia gains independence from Spain (Aug 6), the world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives opens in England (Sep 27), London takes over Beijing as the largest city in the world, the U. Continue reading

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In the year 1864, Danish-Prussian War starts (Feb 1), the first submarine sinking takes place (Feb 17), In God We Trust starts appearing in all U.S. coins (Apr 22), President Lincoln issues a proclamation of conscription for the U.S. Civil War (Jul 18), the first fish&chips shop perhaps opens in London (Aug 13), the first Geneva Convention is signed (Aug 22), Brazil invades Uruguay (Oct 12), hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants are massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado (Nov 29), the American Civil War goes on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1823, the first worldwide carnival parade takes place in Cologne, Prussia (Feb 10), gold is found in Australia, predating the gold rushes from 1851 on (Feb 15), 11-year old Franz Liszt gives a concert and is personally congratulated by Beethoven (Apr 13), Demerara rebellion in British Guiana takes place (Aug 18), Simón Bolivar becomes President of Peru (Sep 10), the medical journal Lancet is founded in London (Oct 5), rugby is invented (Nov),James Monroe introduces the Monroe Doctrine in his State of the Union address (Dec 2), work begins on the British Museum in London - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1816, Davy’s lamp - for use in flammable atmospheres - is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp (Jan 9), Rossini’s The Barber of Seville premieres in Rome (Feb 20), the United States signs a treaty with the Cherokee Nation (Mar 22), the American Colonization Society is established in order to support the emigration of free African Americans to Africa (Dec 9-21), stethoscope is invented in France, E. Continue reading

In the year 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City (Feb 20), Yellowstone National Park becomes the world’s first national park (Mar 1), the New Zealand Wars end after 17 years (May 15), trade unions become legal in Canada (Jun 14), American suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes in the U.S. presidential election in defiance of the law (Nov 5), the Great Boston Fire takes place (Nov 9), Challenger expedition which will lay the foundation for oceanography takes off from Portsmouth, England (Dec 21) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

The metric system is still spreading Napoleon authorizes the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the metric system (Feb 12), the capital of Finland is moved from Turku to Helsinki (Apr 8), the War of 1812 between United States, Canada and the United Kingdom begins (Jun 18), Napoleon’s troops enter Moscow, which is deliberately set on fire by Muscovites (Sep 14), the unsuccessful French invasion of Russia comes to an end (Dec 14), the first volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is published in Germany (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1827, the first African-American owned newspaper in the U.S., Freedom’s Journal, is founded (Mar 16), Beethoven dies in Vienna (Mar 26), the first fountain pen with replaceable ink cartridge is patented in France (May 25), 3/4 of Turku in Finland is destroyed by fire (Sep 4), the Mormon leader Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates - central in the Mormon religion - this date (Sep 22), the term socialist is coined by Robert Owen in his London periodical (Nov), the Greek War of Independence goes on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1865, John Deere receives a patent for plows (Feb 21), Abraham Lincoln is sworn in for a second term (Mar 4), the German company BASF is founded (Apr 6), Lincoln is assassinated in Washington, D.C. (Apr 14), the Confederate Government is officially dissolved (May 5), the Mimosa sets sail with Welsh emigrants to Patagonia (May 28), Salvation Army is founded (Jul 2), the U.S. Secret Service is founded (Jul 5), Wild Bill Hickok shoots a man over a poker debt in what is regarded as the first true western fast draw showdown (Jul 21), slavery is legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware (Dec 18), Ku Klux Klan is founded (Dec 24), the American Civil War (1861-1865) ends - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_4239” align=“alignleft” width=“152”]Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_4241” align=“alignright” width=“151”]John Adams (1735-1826)[/caption] In the year 1826, The French newspaper Le Figaro begins publication (Jan 15), internal combustion engine is patented (Apr 1), former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson (born 1743, 3usp) and John Adams (born 1735, 2usp) both die, on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (Jul 4), American settlers in Mexican Texas make the first attempt to secede from Mexico (Dec 21) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Seventh Avenue & Madison Square Garden The Commissioners' Plan for Manhattan is presented (Mar 22), Paraguay and Venezuela declare their independence from the Spanish Empire (May 14&Jul 5), Jane Austen’s _Sense and Sensibility _is published - anonymously “By A Lady” - for the first time, at her own expense (Oct 30), the Mexican War on Independence goes on until 1821 - and all these fine people were born: 1811-xxxx Isaac Baker Brown* gynaecologist/obstetrical surgeon - Colne Engaine, Essex, England (1873/c. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_4123” align=“alignleft” width=“319”]Gents Hobby Horse from 1818 in British Museum (uploaded by ObjectWiki user Ian.wilkes)[/caption] In the year 1817, James Monroe is sworn is as the 5th U.S. President (Mar 4), German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse (without pedals), the forerunner of the bicycle (Jun 12), the future museum ship, the frigate HMS Trincomalee, is launched in Bombay (Oct 17), the independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar (Oct 30), the first Seminole War begins in Florida (Nov 20), the first cholera pandemic originates in Bengal - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_4175” align=“alignleft” width=“364”]After New York Herald breaks the news on gold in California in August 1848, adds such as this become a regular feature in newspapers[/caption] In the year 1848, the California Gold Rush begins (Jan 24), Mexico cedes most of what becomes the future Southwestern United States to the U.S. (Feb 2), Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London (Feb 21), the Hungarian Revolution begins (Mar 15), the German Revolutions culminate in Berlin (Mar 18), the Swiss Federal Constitution enters into force, creating one of the first modern democratic states in Europe (Sep 12), representative democracy is proclaimed in the Netherlands (Nov 3), Franz Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia, until 1916 (Nov 24), a wave of revolutions sweeps across Europe and elsewhere, the famine in Ireland continues, several universities are founded - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Napoleon enters Berlin through the Brandenburger Tor in 1806 (by Charles Meynier) In the year 1806, the Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon (Jan 1), Lord Nelson is given a state funeral in London (Jan 9), British troops occupy the Cape of Good Hope (Jan 19), Andrew Jackson - the future president - kills a man in a duel (May 30), 16 German Imperial States leave the Holy Roman Empire, and form the Confederation of the Rhine (Jul 12), the last Holy Roman Emperor abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire after 844 years (Aug 6), Napoleon begins the War of the Fourth Coalition (Oct 8), French forces enter Berlin (Oct 24), and Warsaw (Nov 28), Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1815, Battle of New Orleans is fought, though the war - War of 1812 - has ended (Jan 8), the first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland (Feb 3), the Spanish reconquest of Latin America begins (Feb 17), the War of 1812 officially ends (Feb 18), Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba, and begins his (last) Hundred Days rule (Mar 20), the German Confederation and Congress Poland are created (Jun 9), in the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington defeats Napoleon (Jun 18), Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena (Oct 15), the Napoleonic Wars come to an end after 12 years (Nov 20), Jane Austen’s Emma is published (Dec 23) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading