https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/the-19th-century/ Recent content in The 19th Century on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:11:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1802/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:11:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1802/ 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. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1820/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:33:24 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1820/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1807/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 09:11:20 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1807/ [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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1803/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:33:59 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1803/ [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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1849/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:11:15 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1849/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1825/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 04:00:58 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1825/ [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. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1864-comments/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:07:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1864-comments/ Tomas Camerano - Nov 4, 2020Nice content. 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I’m glad you liked this year file. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1864/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:07:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1864/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1823/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 10:01:30 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1823/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1816/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 04:00:30 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1816/ 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. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1872/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:11:41 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1872/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1812/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 06:55:16 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1812/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1827/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:55:57 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1827/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1865/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:33:57 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1865/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1826/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 05:13:25 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1826/ [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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1811/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:07:03 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1811/ 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. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1817/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 08:51:01 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1817/ [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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1848/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:11:45 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1848/ [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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1806/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:05:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1806/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1815/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 06:23:03 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1815/ 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: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1814/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:47:40 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1814/ [caption id=“attachment_3107” align=“alignleft” width=“416”]General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans in 1814[/caption] In the year 1814, the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom goes on all year long (Jan), Denmark cedes Norway into personal union with Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania (Jan 4), Norway’s independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union (Feb 11), Napoleonic Wars are coming to an end (Apr 10) and Napoleon is exiled to Elba (May 30), inspired by the French Gendarmerie. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1854/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 06:45:42 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1854/ [caption id=“attachment_3273” align=“alignleft” width=“441”]Photo courtesy National Library of Medicine[/caption] In the year 1854, Major streets are lit by goal gas for the first time in San Francisco (Feb 11), the Republican Party is founded in the U.S. (Feb 28), slavery is abolished in Venezuela (Mar 24), the Convention of Kanagawa opens Japanese ports to American trade (Mar 31), the first cotton mill in India is established (Jul 7), the findings of the cholera outbreak in London form the starting point for epidemiology (Aug 31), Florence Nightingale and her team of volunteer nurses arrives in Scutari, Ottoman Empire to care for wounded soldiers there (Nov), the French fashion label Louis Vuitton is founded - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1855/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:21:45 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1855/ Ottawa is incorporated as a city (Jan 1), Alexander II ascends the Russian throne (Mar 2), Nepalese troops invade Tibet (Apr 3), Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City opens its doors (Jun 5), stamp duty is removed from British newspapers, creating mass media in the United Kingdom (Jun 15), The Daily Telegraph begins publication in London (Jun 29), the Australian Colonies are granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom (Jul 16), the capital of the Crimea, Sebastopol, falls to French and British troops (Sep 9), Van Diemen’s Land is officially renamed Tasmania (Oct 24), the cocaine alkaloid is first isolated - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1808/ Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:14:42 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1808/ [caption id=“attachment_1955” align=“alignleft” width=“372”]Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) in the 21st century[/caption] In the year 1808, the importation of slaves into the United States is banned (Jan 1), John Adams, the last alive HMS Bounty mutineer is found on Pitcairn Islands (Feb 6), the Finnish War begins (Feb 21), Russian troops occupy Helsinki (Mar 1), Denmark declares war on Sweden (Mar 13), the people of Madrid rise up against the French troops (May 2), the fortress of Sveaborg in Helsinki is lost to Russia (May 3), the Swedish archipelago fleet defeats the Russians in the Battle of Turku (Jun 30), Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia (Dec 1), Napoleon joins his army in Spain (Dec 4) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1868/ Thu, 07 Jun 2018 06:43:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1868/ [caption id=“attachment_3085” align=“alignleft” width=“377”]Police crossing notice from 1868[/caption] In the year 1868, the last convict ship from England to Australia arrives in Western Australia (Jan 9), the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon are discovered in France (Mar), MetLife is founded in New York City (Mar 24), United Kingdom decides to end public hanging (May 29), the Navajo people begin their long march home to Arizona and New Mexico (Jul 18), the name of the city of Edo changes to Tokyo (Sep 3), the 265-year long Edo period in Japan ends to give way to the new Meiji period (Oct 23), Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder (Oct 28), the world’s first traffic signal lights are installed in London, England (Dec 9) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1851/ Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:52:55 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1851/ [caption id=“attachment_3220” align=“alignleft” width=“345”]Singer’s 1854 improved patent model[/caption] In the year 1851, Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia (Feb 12), Verdi’s Rigoletto is first performed (Mar 11), the first Australian gold rush is proclaimed (May 15), Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine (Aug 12), the New York Times is founded (Sep 18), the news service Reuters is founded (Oct), The Whale (later known as Moby Dick) is published in London (Oct 18), Moby Dick is published in the U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1850/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 07:11:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1850/ American Express is founded by Henry Wells & Williams Fargo (Mar 19), Los Angeles and San Francisco are incorporated as cities (Apr 4&15), the transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins (Jun 1), the Danish Stag Holocaust takes place (Jul 2), Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire (Nov 29), tens of thousands of East Indian laborers are shipped to Trinidad and Jamaica until 1880, the Great Famine in Ireland goes on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1845/ Thu, 31 May 2018 06:11:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1845/ [caption id=“attachment_2748” align=“alignright” width=“206”]Maori chief Hone Heke with wife Hariata wearing flax cloaks[/caption] In the year 1845, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published (Jan 29), Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state (Mar 3), New Zealand Wars begin, waged between the Maori and the British (Mar 11), Stephen Perry patents the rubber band (Mar 17), Scientific American begins publication (Aug 28), potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning the Great Famine (Sep 9), the Monroe Doctrine states that the United States should aggressively expand into the West (Dec 2), anesthesia is used for the first time for childbirth in Jefferson, Georgia (Dec 27), Texas is admitted as the 28th U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1844/ Wed, 30 May 2018 06:11:47 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1844/ In the year 1844, the Edict of Toleration is passed allowing Jews to settle in the Holy Land (Mar 23), the world’s second police force is established in Hong Kong (May 1), the first electrical telegram is sent by Samuel Morse (May 24), YMCA is founded in London (Jun 6), Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber (Jun 15), the Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother are killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois (Jun 27), Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris (Aug 28), Hungarian becomes the official language of Hungary (Nov 13), the safety match is invented - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1843-2/ Mon, 28 May 2018 07:11:16 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1843-2/ [caption id=“attachment_2744” align=“alignnone” width=“950”]Pioneers on the Oregon Trail in 1843[/caption] The Thames Tunnel, the world’s first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London (Mar 25), the first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with 1000 pioneers from Missouri (May 22), Brazil becomes the second country to issue postage stamps (Aug 1), the amusement park Tivoli Gardens opens in Copenhagen, Denmark (Aug 15), Ada Lovelace becomes in essence the world’s first computer programmer (Sep), the Economist is first published in London (Sep 2), the city of Shanghai opens for trade with foreigners (Nov 17), the world’s first Christmas cards are sent (Dec) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1842/ Sun, 27 May 2018 07:16:59 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1842/ In the year 1842, an American medical student becomes the first person to administer an inhaled anesthetic to facilitate a surgical procedure (Jan), Mexican troops invade Texas, but soon head back - the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution (Mar 5), the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs its first concert (Mar 28), a primary school system is established in Sweden (Jun 18), the Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War, and establishes Hong Kong as a British colony until 1997 (Aug 29), the New York Philharmonic performs its first concert (Dec 7) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1841/ Sat, 26 May 2018 05:27:34 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1841/ [caption id=“attachment_2727” align=“alignright” width=“394”]Replica of The Amistad (courtesy of Amistad America)[/caption] In the year 1841, Britain occupies Hong Kong (Jan 24), the two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada (Feb 11), the court case United States v. The Amistad is ruled in favor of the slaves from Sierra Leone (Mar 9), John Tyler is sworn in as the 10th U.S. President (Apr 6), New Zealand becomes a British colony (May 3), the first edition of Punch is published in London (Jul 17), Emperor Pedro II is crowned in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jul 18), first demonstration of what was then called animal magnetism - later hypnotism - is observed (Nov 13) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1829/ Tue, 22 May 2018 07:00:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1829/ The Great Wave off Kanagawa, published 1829-1833 by Katsushika Hokusai In the year 1829, Andrew Jackson is sworn in as the 7th President of the United States (Mar 4), Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire (Mar 22), accordion is patented (May 23), the Metropolitan Police Service in London is established (Jun 19), the first bus service in London is begun (Jul 4), African-American abolitionist David Walker publishes his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Sep 25), the first bobbies start patrolling London streets (Sep 23), the first modern hotel in the U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1876/ Mon, 21 May 2018 08:11:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1876/ [caption id=“attachment_2650” align=“alignleft” width=“237”]Marker stone on the battlefield of Little Bighorn, courtesy of Mark A. Wilson[/caption] In the year 1876, Alexander Graham Bell is granted a U.S. patent for the telephone, ahead of Elisha Gray (Mar 7), thousands of Plains Indians gather at the Little Bighorn River (spring), Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is published in London (June), the first train ride from New York to San Francisco takes some 84 hours (Jun 4), Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeat Custer’s forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Jun 25-26), retaliated later at Powder River (Nov 25), Heinz Tomato Ketchup is introduced, Anheuser-Busch first markets Budweiser as a nationally sold beer, samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1883/ Sat, 19 May 2018 06:24:47 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1883/ In the year 1883, Life Magazine is founded in Los Angeles (Jan 4), the first vaudeville theater is opened in Boston, MA (Feb 28), oxygen is liquefied for the first time (Apr 5), after 13 years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic (May 24), the world’s first rodeo is held in Pecos, Texas (Jul 4), Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) erupts, killing thousands (Aug 26), the Orient Express begins to run (Oct 4), U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1884/ Tue, 15 May 2018 06:29:54 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1884/ In the year 1884, the eight-hour workday is proclaimed in the United States, and is henceforth observed as May Day or Labor Day elsewhere in the world as well (May 1), the espresso machine is patented (May 16), the invention of local anesthesia is made public in a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany (Sep 15), Timisoara becomes the first European town to be illuminated by electric light (Nov 2), the Washington Monument is completed, becoming for a while the tallest structure in the world (Dec 6), Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in London (Dec 10) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1834/ Sat, 12 May 2018 06:20:58 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1834/ In the year 1834, York in Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto (Mar 6), Cyrus McCormick is granted a patent for his mechanical reaper (Jun 21), the Spanish Inquisition, which began in the 15th century, is suppressed by royal degree (Jul 15), slavery is abolished in the British Empire (Aug 1), Athens becomes the capital of Greece, Thomas Davenport creates one of the first electric cars by installing his DC electrical motor in a small model car - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1801/ Mon, 07 May 2018 02:55:14 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1801/ The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland comes about, and Ceres is discovered (Jan 1), Thomas Jefferson is the new U.S. President (Mar 4), the first census is held in Great Britain (Mar 10), the First Barbary War where the United States and Sweden fight against four North African States, begins (May 1), Tsar Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of the Baltic provinces (Sep 9), the first edition of New York Evening Post is printed (Nov 16), ultraviolet radiation is discovered, the French Revolutionary Wars go on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1833/ Sun, 06 May 2018 02:55:49 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1833/ [caption id=“attachment_1798” align=“alignright” width=“413”]The windy city in the year 1833[/caption] In the year 1833, U.S. President Andrew Jackson is attacked in Alexandria, Virginia (May 6), Dubai gains independence from the United Kingdom (Jun 9), a mob destroys the Mormon printing office in Jackson County, Missouri (Jul 20), the city of Chicago is established by 350 settlers (Aug 12), the British Parliament limits child labor with the Factory Acts (Aug 29), the American Anti-Slavery Society is founded - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1835/ Fri, 04 May 2018 03:38:18 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1835/ [caption id=“attachment_2203” align=“alignleft” width=“287”]Positive made out of the first ever negative, of a latticed window at Lacock Abbey in England[/caption] In the year 1835, the United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history (Jan 8), Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria (Mar 2), the first railway in the continental Europe is opened, between Brussels and Mechelen (May 5), the world’s first photographic negatives are exposed in England (Aug), European settlers, landing at Yarra River in southeastern Australia, found the city of Melbourne (Aug 30), the pencil manufacturer Staedler is founded (Oct 3), settlers in Mexican Texas launch the Texas Revolution (Oct), James Pratt and John Smith are the last to suffer capital punishment for homosexual acts in England (Nov 27), the Second Seminole War led by Osceola breaks out (Dec 28), English becomes the official language in India - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1824/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:02:40 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1824/ In the year 1824, Simón Bolivar is proclaimed dictator of Peru (Feb 10), the United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Mar 11), the first permanent settlers arrive to construct the new city of Tallahassee, Florida’s new state capital (Apr 9), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna (May 7), Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Oct 21), Peruvian forces defeat the Spanish who by and by lose all of South America (Dec 9) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1831/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 05:33:27 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1831/ [caption id=“attachment_2043” align=“alignleft” width=“297”]Le Quai Saint Michel et Notre Dame by Maximilien Luce (painted 1901)[/caption] In the year 1831, the French Foreign Legion is founded (Mar 10), Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is published (Mar 16), the North Magnetic Pole is located by James Clark Ross (Jun 1), Leopold I is inaugurated as the King of the Belgians (Jul 21), Russian troops enter the Polish capital Warsaw and crush all resistance (Sep 6), slave trading is forbidden in Brazil (Nov 7), Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle from Plymouth, England (Dec 27) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1870/ Sat, 28 Apr 2018 07:57:04 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1870/ [caption id=“attachment_2009” align=“alignleft” width=“347”]Colosseum in Rome, Italy in the year 1870[/caption] In the year 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil (Jan 10), The YWCA is founded in New York City (Feb 10), Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African American to sit in the U.S. Congress (Feb 25), the blacks are given the right to vote in the U.S. (Mar 30), France declares war on Prussia (Jul 19), emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared (Sep 4), Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy (Oct 6), Japanese Yen replaces the Tokugawa coinage, Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi is published - and all these fine people were born: 1870-xxxx Arthur MacPherson* stock exhange dealer/“Father of Russian football”/of Scottish heritage - St. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1869/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:59:37 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1869/ In the year 1869, The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York (Apr 6), the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed (May 10), Sainsbury’s first store opens in London (May 22), celluloid is patented (Jun 15), the first Estonian Song Festival takes place (Jun 30), the Suez Canal is inaugurated (Nov 17), Tolstoy’s War and Peace is published (Dec), Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri (Dec7), DNA is discovered, Japan is on its way to a fully centralized government, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1886/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:33:25 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1886/ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is published (Jan 5), Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile (Jan 29), Coca-Cola is invented (May 8), Arturo Toscanini makes his conducting debut (Jun 25), after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders in Arizona (Sep 4), Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba (Oct 7), the Statue of Liberty is dedicated on Liberty Island (Oct 28) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1836/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 01:36:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1836/ The Battle of the Alamo begins between Texans and Mexicans (Feb 23), Samuel Colt receives a patent for the Colt revolver (Feb 25), the Republic of Texas is declared, independent from Mexico (Mar 2), Arkansas is the 25th state to be admitted into the U.S.A. (Jun 15), Charles Darwin returns home from his journey around the world, using then the material acquired to develop his theory of evolution (Oct 2), Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas (Oct 22), Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico (Dec 28) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1875/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:20:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1875/ In the year 1875, the first performance of the opera Carmen takes place in Paris, and the very first indoor hockey game is played in Montreal (Mar 3), an Egyptian invasion of Ethiopia fails (Sep 7), the Ottoman state declares partial bankruptcy and places its finances in the hands of European creditors (Oct 1), the Theosophical Society is founded in New York (Oct 30) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1805/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 01:34:56 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1805/ [caption id=“attachment_1708” align=“alignright” width=“355”]Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo[/caption] In the year 1805, Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States (Mar 4), Napoleon is crowned King of Italy (May 26), most of Detroit is destroyed in fires (Jun 4), Muhammad Ali Pasha, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt, rises to power (Jul 9), Sweden declares war on France (Oct 31), the Lewis and Clark expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean (Nov 7), the French Republican Calendar featuring 10-day weeks is used for the last time (Dec 31), the Napoleonic Wars go on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1866/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:50:41 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1866/ In the year 1866, the first daylight bank robbery in the United States takes place in Liberty, Missouri, probably committed by Jesse James and his gang (Feb 13), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City (Apr 10), the telegraph cable between Ireland and Newfoundland, i.e. across the Atlantic Ocean, is successfully laid (Jul 27), the United States Congress legally authorizes metric measure, which fails to gain ground though (Jul 28), Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Germany - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1885/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:25:03 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1885/ In the year 1885, the first successful appendectomy is performed (Jan 4), roller coaster is patented (Jan 20), the first Japanese arrive in Hawaii (Feb 9), the Washington Monument is dedicated (Feb 21), AT&T is incorporated in New York (Mar 3), Good Housekeeping goes on sale for the first time (May 2), the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor (Jun 17), the rabies vaccine is successfully tested (Jul 6), Daimler Reitwagen - regarded as the first motorcycle - is granted patent in Germany (Aug 29) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1837/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:58:15 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1837/ [caption id=“attachment_79” align=“alignright” width=“267”]Queen Victoria at age 18[/caption] In the year 1837, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London (Feb), Seminoles attack Fort Foster in Florida (Feb 4), the city of Chicago is incorporated (Mar 4), British businessmen Proctor and Gample begin selling their first manufactured goods such as soap and candles in Cincinnati, Ohio (Apr 12), the financial crisis named Panic of 1837 begins in New York City (May 10), Queen Victoria accedes the throne of United Kingdom at age 18 after her uncle dies (Jun 20), in the Canadas, there is organized rebellion against the British colonial rule - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1818/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:20:05 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1818/ [caption id=“attachment_1469” align=“alignleft” width=“366”]Seminole Indians (courtesy of thedailycheck.net)[/caption] In the year 1818, the reign of the Bernadotte begins in Sweden (Feb 5), Chile proclaims its independence from Spain (Feb 12), General Andrew Jackson and his American army invade Florida (Mar 15), Stars & Stripes is adopted as the flag of the United States, at the time with 20 stars (Apr 4), the justification of invading Florida is discussed in the U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1832/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:30:19 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1832/ [caption id=“attachment_1442” align=“alignleft” width=“296”]A painting by George Catlin (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] In the year 1832, a cholera epidemic claims lives in London, and spreads later to France and North America (Feb 12), the Mormon leader Joseph Smith experiences firsthand the persecution of Mormons in Ohio (Mar 24), the Black Hawk War begins (Apr 6), Modern Greece is born as the Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece (May 7), Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at age 95 (Nov 14), Andrew Jackson is re-elected president (Dec 3), painter George Catlin starts to live among the Plains Indians, depicting them in his portraits and paintings in their native territory - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1861/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 06:41:19 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1861/ In the year 1861, throughout the year, several U.S. states secede from the Union (Jan-Dec), Abraham Lincoln escapes a probable assassination attempt (Feb 23), serfdom is abolished in the Russian Empire (Mar 3), Lincoln becomes the 16th president of a United States at the brink of a civil war, while the Stars and Bars becomes the flag of the Confederate States of America (Mar 4), the American Civil War begins with the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, which falls to South (Apr 12), Richmond in Virginia becomes the capital of the Confederate States (May 8), the mail service Pony Express announces its closure (Oct 26), the American Civil War rages on, until 1865 - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1862/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:54:31 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1862/ In the year 1862, the first railway opens in New Zealand (Feb 2), Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is published (Mar 31), Westminster Bridge is opened in London, England (May 24), the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of IRS, is established in the United States (Jul 1), Otto von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia (Sep 22), Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery in his State of the Union address (Dec 1), the American Civil War (1861-1865) rages on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1860/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:44:13 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1860/ When campaigning for presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike (Mar 6), the First Taranaki War begins in Waitara as the Maori refuse to sell land to British settlers in New Zealand (Mar 17), Garibaldi’s forces take Palermo, the capital of Sicily (May 27), Vladivostok is founded in Russia (Jul 2), the First International Chemistry Congress is held in Karlsruhe, Baden (Sep 3), Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round (Dec 1) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1830/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:16:10 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1830/ In the year 1830, Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire (Feb 3), the Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York (Mar 26), Joseph Smith and five others found the Church of Christ (Apr 6), the Indian Removal Act is passed, affecting the future domiciles of Native Americans (May 28), France invades Algeria (Jul 5), the Belgian Revolution begins (Aug 25), the independence of Belgium from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands is recognized by the Great Powers (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1859/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:20:27 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1859/ In the year 1859, ground is broken for the Suez Canal in Egypt (Apr 25), A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published in England (Apr 30), the British Crown Colony of Queensland in Australia is created (Jun 6), the chimes of Big Ben ring for the first time (Jul 11), Pennsylvania Oil Rush begins (Aug 27), Charles Darwin publishes _On the Origin of the Species _(Nov 24) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1856/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:08:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1856/ In the year 1856, Dallas, Texas is incorporated as a city (Feb 2), the discovery of mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye, leads eventually to the birth of the chemical industry (Mar), the Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War (Mar 31), 500 Mormon handcart pioneers leave Iowa for Salt Lake City (Jun 9), the Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins (Oct 8), Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics, proslavery forces and antislavery forces keep on clashing in the United States - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1804/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:39:16 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1804/ In the year 1804, Haiti gains independence from France (Jan 1), New Jersey becomes the last of the northern United States to abolish slavery (Feb 15), Louisiana, purchased from France, is officially transferred to the United States (Mar 10), Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French at the age of 34 (May 18), a duel between U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton leaves the latter dead the next day (Jul 11), Napoleon crowns himself at Notre Dame in Paris (Dec 2), morphine is first isolated from the opium poppy, world population reaches 1 billion people - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1858/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:04:15 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1858/ In the year 1858, Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March becomes a popular wedding recessional (Jan 25), the first aerial photography is carried out, from tethered balloon in France (Aug), after a summer of problems, a bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London (Aug 2), Macy’s department store in New York City opens for business (Oct 28), the city of Denver, Colorado is founded (Nov 17), homosexuality is legalised in the Ottoman Empire - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1853/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:58:51 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1853/ In the year 1853, the clothing company Levi Strauss is founded (Mar), the first passenger railway in India opens (Apr 16), the world’s first public aquarium opens, at the London Zoo (May), U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Japan with a request for a trade treaty (Jul 8), potato chips are first prepared in New York, according to popular accounts (Aug 24), the Ottoman Empire begins war with Russia over Crimea (Oct 4), the United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest (Dec 30), the Swiss watch company Tissot is founded - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1863/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:18:51 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1863/ In the year 1863, Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, making the abolition of slavery an official war goal of the American Civil War (Jan 1), the first section of the London Underground opens officially (Jan 10), Adam Opel founds Opel AG (Jan 21), the foundation for the International Red Cross are laid in Geneva (Feb 9), Alanson Crane patents a fire extinguisher (Feb 10), Battle of Gettysburg begins, the Union winning it (Jul 1), the New Zealand Wars against the Maori people resume (Jul 17), Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November (Oct 3), Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address (Nov 19), Gerard Heineken buys the Haystack brewery in Amsterdam (Dec 15), linoleum is patented in the United Kingdom, and association football is played for the first time (Dec 19), the American Civil War goes on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1846/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 22:11:02 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1846/ In the year 1846, many Mormons begin their migration from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (Jan 5), the Liberty Bell is cracked while being rung for George Washington’s birthday (Feb 26), the United States declares war on Mexico (May 13), the California Republic declares independence from Mexico (Jun 10), the saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax (Jun 28), Neptune is first observed (Sep 23), the Great Famine continues in Ireland, leading to mass emigration, mainly to the United States - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1847/ Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:59:10 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1847/ [caption id=“attachment_1454” align=“alignleft” width=“328”]1847 Colt Walker[/caption] In the year 1847, Samuel Colt sells his first revolver to the U.S. government (Jan 4), the American Medical Association is founded (May 7), the United States issues its first postage stamps (Jul 1), Mormon pioneers arrive in what will become Salt Lake City (Jul 24), the world’s oldest vegetarian society is formed in the United Kingdom (Sep 30), Siemens AG, starting out as a telegraph line manufacturer, is founded (Oct 12), chloroform is successfully used as an anesthetic in Edinburgh, Scotland (Nov 4-8), the first brew of Carlsberg beer is finished in Copenhagen (Nov 10), the Mexican-American War rages on, the Great Famine continues in Ireland - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1813/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:05:19 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1813/ The Philharmonic Society is founded in London (Jan 24), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is published (Jan 28), Prussia declares war on France (Mar 17), American forces capture Fort George in Canada (May 27), the Carabinieri are founded in the Kingdom of Sardinia (Jul 13), Napoleon’s troops are victorious in Dresden (Aug 27), Simón Bolívar is given the title El Libertador in Venezuela (Oct 5), British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York (Dec 29), the Napoleonic Wars go on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1838/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:50:51 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1838/ In the year 1838, the first public demonstration of a new invention - telegraph - occurs in Morristown, New Jersey (Jan 6), the first known report about the lowest temperature on Earth is made, -60°C (-76°F) in Yakutsk, Siberia (Jan 21), the first East Indian immigrants arrive in British Guiana (May 5), several native tribes in the United States, there among Cherokee, Muscogee and Seminole, are forcefully relocated in what came to be known Trail of Tears (May 26), the coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey in London (Jun 28), Governor of Missouri declares Mormons to be enemies of state, leaving either extermination or exile their only option (Oct 27) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1840/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:48:32 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1840/ In the year 1840, British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding Wellington (Jan 22), Queen Victoria marries her cousin Prince Albert (Feb 10), Britain issues the Penny Black, the world’s first postage stamp (May 1), New Zealand is declared a British colony (May 21), the Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union (Jul 23), David Livingstone leaves Britain for Africa (to be located only 31 years later by Henry Morton Stanley) (Dec 7) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1873/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:46:46 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1873/ In the year 1873, Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar (Jan 1), the world’s first kennel club is founded in the United Kingdom (Apr 4), barbed wire is exhibited at an Illinois county fair, and is soon being mass-produced (May), Levi Strauss and Co. begin manufacturing the famous Levi’s brand of jeans (May 20), Jesse James and his gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West (Jul 21), Heineken Brewery is founded in Amsterdam (Dec 16), the Long Depression that started in October lasts for many years, the American Indian Wars go on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1810/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:40:52 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1810/ [caption id=“attachment_1700” align=“alignleft” width=“352”]Strong Arm Contest at Oktoberfest in 2009[/caption] In the year 1810, Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria (Mar 11), Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise (Apr 27), Colombia declares its independence from Spain (Jul 20), Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden (Aug 21), Munich in Bavaria, Germany holds its first Oktoberfest (Oct 12), the United States annexes West Florida from Spain (Oct 27) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1877/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:34:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1877/ In the year 1877, the Satsuma Rebellion breaks out in Japan between disaffected samurai and the new imperial government (Jan 29), microphone is invented, and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake debuts (Mar 4), Crazy Horse surrenders in Nebraska (May 6), Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Canada (Jun 20), the Wimbledon tennis tournament is played for the first time (Jul 9), Deimos, the outer moon of Mars, is discovered (Aug 12) and days later its inner moon Phobos (Aug 18), Thomas Edison demonstrates his newest invention, the phonograph (Nov 29), American Indian Wars go on - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1871/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:50:39 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1871/ In the year 1871, the German Empire is founded (Jan 18) and Otto von Bismarck becomes its first Chancellor (Mar 21), the Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria (Mar 29), the first supposedly Major League Baseball game is played in America (May 4), the first cat expedition is held, at Crystal Palace in London (Jul 13), British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada (Jul 20), New York Herald correspondent Stanley locates the missing missionary and asks: Dr. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1878/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:56:40 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1878/ In the year 1878, Umberto I becomes King of Italy (Jan), the phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison (Feb 19), the Tokyo Stock Exchange is established (May 15), the Congress of Berlin convenes to discuss the Ottoman Empire, and as a result the empire gradually shrinks in size (Jun 4), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves on a voyage that makes him the first man to navigate the Northern Sea Route (Jun 22), Cleopatra’s Needle is erected in London (Sep 12), the last remnants of the once-great herds of bison around the Calgary area cross south into Montana - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1879/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:51:08 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1879/ [caption id=“attachment_1461” align=“alignleft” width=“414”]A dining hall at Oxford University[/caption] In the year 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War begins in Southern Africa (Jan 11), Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time (Feb 8), the world’s first ocean-going steamer made of mild steel is launched in Scotland (Jun 6), the first issue of what will be known as The Watchtower, is published (Jul 1), Oxford University allows female students to study for degrees (Oct 13), Thomas Edison buys the patent for the incandescent light bulb (Nov 4) and demonstrates it to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1880/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:38:25 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1880/ In the year 1880, Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world (Mar 31), in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway (May 13), France annexes Tahiti (Jun 29), The University of Southern California opens its doors (Oct 6), the first cash register is patented in Ohio (Nov 4) - and all these fine people were born: 1880-0101 Ernst Gennat* director of the Berlin criminal police/coined the term “Serienmörder” (serial killer) - Plötzensee, German Empire (1939/59) https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1882/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:35:59 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1882/ In the year 1882, P. T. Barnum acquires Jumbo the elephant from the London Zoo (Feb 3), polygamy is made a felony in the United States (Mar 22), the world’s first trolley bus begins operating in Berlin (Apr 29), the Chinese Exclusion Act is the first law restricting immigration into the U.S. (May 8), the first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City (Sep 4), Egypt becomes a British protectorate (Sep 13) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1887/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:33:18 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1887/ In the year 1887, construction of the Eiffel Tower begins (Jan 28), the first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (Feb 2), Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs (Mar 4), Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opens in London (May 9), Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone (Nov 8), Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves i.e. radio - and all these fine people were born: 1887-0101 Max Ritter von Müller* WWI fighter ace - Rottenburg an der Laaber, Bavaria, German Empire (1918/31) 1887-0104 Viljo Huttunen* Finnish actor/theater director - Toksova, Ingria, Russian Empire (1951/64) 1887-0110 1887-0111 Monte Blue* actor - Indianapolis, IN USA (1963/76) 1887-0120 1887-0121 Georges Vézina* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/the Vezina Trophy since 1926 - Chicoutimi, QC Canada (1926/39) 1887-0122 Helen Hoyt* poet - Norwalk, CT USA (1972/85) 1887-0128 Arthur Rubinstein* pianist - Lodz, Poland, Russian Empire (1982) 1887-0131 1887-0201 1887-0210 John Franklin Enders* biomedical scientist/N/“the Father of Modern Vaccines” - West Hartford, CT USA (1985/88) 1887-0217 Leevi Madetoja* composer - Oulu, GD of Finland (1947/60) 1887-0220 1887-0223 Kössi Kanto* actor/killed by an ice block - Kangasala, GD of Finland (1917/30) 1887-0228 Annie Mörk* actress/ theater director - Hanko, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-0303 Kurt Wolff* journalist/ writer/publisher - Bonn, Prussia, German Empire (1963/76) 1887-0311 Raoul Walsh* film director/actor - New York, NY USA (1980/93) 1887-0314 Sylvia Beach* bookseller/publisher/active in France - Baltimore, MD USA (1962/75) 1887-0315 Marjorie Merriweather Post* businesswoman/ socialite/ philanthropist - Springfield, IL USA (1973/86) 1887-0322 Chico Marx* actor/comedian/musician - New York, NY USA (1961/74) 1887-0323 Juan Gris* (b González-Pérez) painter - Madrid, Spain (1927/40) 1887-0324 Roscoe Arbuckle* actor/screenwriter/director - Smith Center, KS USA (1933/46) 1887-0324 Dickinson Bishop* businessman/ honeymoon survivor of the Titanic - Dowagiac, MI USA (1961/73) 1887-0325 1887-0331 1887-0401 1887-0402 Louise Schroeder* politician - Altona, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1957/70) 1887-0403 Edgar Lansbury* politician/ father of Angela Lansbury - London, England (1935/48) 1887-0403 Nishizō Tsukahara* 塚原 二四三 navy admiral - Fukui Prefecture, Empire of Japan (1966/78) 1887-0410 Bernardo Houssay* physiologist/N - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971/84) 1887-0412 Harold Lockwood* actor/ director/producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1918/31) 1887-0415 Felix Pipes* Austrian tennis player (OSd)/physician - Prague, Austria-Hungary (1983/95) 1887-0420 1887-0422 Harald Bohr* football player/mathematician/brother of Niels Bohr - Copenhagen, Denmark (1951/63) 1887-0425 Kojo Tovalou Houénou* (b Marc Tovalou Quénum) prominent critic of the French colonial empire in Africa - Porto-Novo, Kingdom of Dahomey (1936/49) 1887-0426 Elisabeth Risdon* actress - London, England (1958/71) 1887-0430 1887-0502 Vernon Castle* (b William Vernon Blyth) dancer - Norwich, Norfolk, England (1918/30) 1887-0510 1887-0513 Lorna Hodgkinson* educator/psychologist - Melbourne, Australia (1951/63) 1887-0522/28 Jim Thorpe* athlete/first native American to win OG - Prague, Indian Territory, USA (1953/65) 1887-0531 Saint-John Perse* (b Alexis Leger) French poet-diplomat/N - Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (1975/88) 1887-0603 Toivo Niskanen* dancer/choreographer/ popularizer of tango in Finland - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1961/74) 1887-0620 Floyd Collins* cave explorer - Auburn, KY USA (1925/37) 1887-0622 Julian Huxley* evolutionary biologist/eugenicist - London, England (1975/87) 1887-0630 William Rosenberg* painter - Nurmijärvi, GD of Finland (1952/64) 1887-0706 Marc Chagall* Russian-French painter - Liozna, Russian Empire (1985/97) 1887-0716 Shoeless Joe Jackson* baseball player - Pickens County, SC USA (1951/64) 1887-0718 Vidkun Quisling* military officer/politician - Fyresdal, Telemark, Norway (1945/58) 1887-0722 Gustav Ludwig Hertz* physicist/N - Hamburg, German Empire (1975/88) 1887-0812 Erwin Schrödinger* physicist/N - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1961/73) 1887-0817 Marcus Garvey* proponent of Black nationalism - Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica (1940/52) 1887-0830 Kalle Anttila* wrestler/OG - Muhos, Finland (1975/87) 1887-0830 Adam Kuckhoff* writer/journalist/ German resistance member (Rote Kapelle) - Aachen, German Empire (1943/55) 1887-0901 Blaise Cendrars* (b Frédéric-Louis Sauser) Swiss-French novelist - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (1961/73) 1887-0903 Frank Christian* jazz trumpeter - New Orleans, LA USA (1973/86) 1887-0905 Irene Fenwick* (b Frizell) actress/m to Lionel Barrymore - Chicago, IL USA (1936/49) 1887-0910 Giovanni Gronchi* politician/P - Pontedera, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy (1978/91) 1887-0913 Frank Gray* physicist/ researcher at Bell Labs/remembered for the Gray code - Alpine, IN USA (1969/81) 1887-0913 Theodore Roosevelt Jr* government&business& military leader - Cove Neck, NY USA (1944/56) 1887-0913 Leopold Ružička* chemist/N - Vukovar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (1976/89) 1887-0916 Nadia Boulanger* music teacher/conductor - Paris, France (1979/92) 1887-0928 Avery Brundage* athlete/ businessman/IOC president - Detroit, MI USA (1975/87) 1887-0930 Tyyne Savia* photographer/ photography teacher - Tampere, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-1001 1887-1015 Frederick Fleet* sailor/ Titanic crewman and survivor - Liverpool, England (1965/77) 1887-1020 Arne Halse* athlete (javelin/OS) - Kristiansund, Norway (1975/87) 1887-1022 John Reed* journalist/political activist - Portland, Oregon USA (1920/32) 1887-1031 Chiang Kai-shek* Chinese political and military leader - Fenghua, Zheijang (1975/87) 1887-1110 Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu* one of the first female engineers - Galati, Kingdom of Romania (1973/86) 1887-1119 James B. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1890/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:14:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1890/ In the year 1890, the Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in northeast Africa (Jan 1), Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck (Mar 20), Vincent van Gogh allegedly shoots himself in the stomach and dies two days later (Jul 27), in New York´s Auburn Prison, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair (Aug 6), the New Scotland Yard opens near the Big Ben clock tower (Nov), at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a massacre takes place (Dec 29) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1891/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:11:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1891/ In the year 1891, paying of old age pensions begins in Germany (Jan 1), Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach (Mar 15), the Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago (Apr 1), Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes appears in the Strand Magazine in London for the first time (Jun 25), James Naismith invents baseball, production of the Swiss Army Knife (see the video below) by Victorinox begins, Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1892/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:52:15 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1892/ In the year 1892, Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States (Jan 1), the Liverpool Football Club is founded (Mar 15), the world’s first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police (Mar 31), the Pledge of Allegiance is first recited (Sep 8), the Dalton Gang is shot by two townspeople in Coffeyville, Kansas (Oct 5), first issue of Vogue is published (Dec 17), a tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004 - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1828/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:49:12 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1828/ In the year 1828, the first American-Indian newspaper, Cherokee Phoenix, is published in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (Feb 21), French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, and later return alive (Apr 20), Simon Bolivar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia (Aug 27), Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States (Dec 3) - and all these fine people were born: 1828-xxxx James McKay* fur trader - Fort Edmonton, Canada (1879/51) 1828-0101 1828-0103 Karl Collan* writer/ composer - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1871/43) 1828-0105 Gabriel Jussilainen* farmer/folk lorist/fennoman - Korvi village, GD of Finland (1884/56) 1828-0110 1828-0117 Alexandru Cernat* Romanian general/politician - Galați or Vârlezi, Principality of Moldavia (1893/65) 1828-0122 Dora d’Istria* Romanian writer/feminist - Bucharest, Wallachia (1888/60) 1828-0123 Saigō Takamori* 西郷 隆盛 samurai - Kagoshima, Japan (1877/49) 1828-0131 Oskar Toppelius* schoolteacher/literary reseacher/theater critic - Oulu, GD of Finland (1904/76) 1828-0201 Meyer Guggenheim* the patriarch of the Guggenheim family - Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland (1905/77) 1828-0208 Jules Verne* poet/playwright/science fiction writer - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1905/77) 1828-0224 Matthew T. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1895/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:38:35 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1895/ In the year 1895, Mintonette - later known as volleyball - is created by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts (Feb 9), first worldwide gasoline bus starts in Germany (Mar 18), Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (Mar 30), Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays (Nov 5), Alfred Nobel signs his last will, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (Nov 27), Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data on climate change (Dec 11), Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris (Dec 28) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1896/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:58:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1896/ In the year 1896, the X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time (Jan 18), the very first speeding fine is written in England (Jan 28), the first edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport is published (Apr 3), the first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece (Apr 6), the Ford Quadricycle is completed, marking the start of “putting America - and the rest of the world - on wheels” (Jun 4), Richard Strauss' _Also Sprach Zarahustra_is first performed, in Frankfurt (Nov 27), the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, the Glasgow Subway in Scotland, opens (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1897/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:56:31 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1897/ In the year 1897, the word “computer” is first used in the journal Engineering (Jan 22), William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States (Mar 4), the first Boston Marathon is held (Apr 19), Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom (Jun 22), the Klondike Gold Rush begins (Jul 17), aspirin is successfully synthesized by Felix Hoffmann (Aug 10), Thomas Edison is granted a patent for Kinetoscope, a precursor of the movie projector (Aug 31) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1898/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:54:49 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1898/ [caption id=“attachment_339” align=“alignright” width=“306”]1 Manhattan 2 Brooklyn 3 Queens 4 The Bronx 5 Staten Island[/caption] In the year 1898, New York City is divided into five boroughs (Jan 1), Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations with the United States military (Apr 5), neon is discovered at a laboratory in London (Jun 7), Britain makes a 99 year rent of Hong Kong from China (Jun 9), the United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands (Jul 7), Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola (Aug 28), the Treaty of Paris ends the Spanish-American War (Dec 10), Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of an element they name radium (Dec 26) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1809/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:52:13 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1809/ In the year 1809, Robert Fulton patents the steamboat (Feb 11), James Madison becomes the 4th U.S.President (Mar 4), King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates (Mar 29), Sweden restores political power to the Riksdag after authoritarian rule since 1772 (Jun 6), the city of La Paz declares its independence and forms first independent government in Spanish America (Jul 16), Ecuador declares independence from Spain (Aug 10), the Finnish territory of Sweden becomes part of Russia, the Grand Duchy of Finland, in the Treaty of Hamina (Sep 17) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1894/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:18:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1894/ The Tower Bridge in London in 1900 In the year 1894, William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States (Jan 7), Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time (Mar 12), Blackpool Tower is opened for visitors in Blackpool, England (May 14), the Tower Bridge in London opens for traffic (Jun 30), the First Sino-Japanese War starts (Aug 1), New Zealand enacts the world’s first minimum wage law (Aug 31), Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia (Nov 1) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1881/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:13:03 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1881/ In the year 1881, Andrew Watson makes his debut in Scotland to become the first black international football player (Mar 12), tsar Alexander II is assassinated in Russia (Mar 13), Romania is proclaimed a kingdom (May 10), the world’s first regular electric tram service starts in Berlin (May 16), the American Red Cross is established (May 21), Billy the Kid is shot dead in New Mexico (Jul 14), Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1874/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:06:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1874/ In the year 1874, New York City annexes the Bronx (Jan 1), Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting exclusive trading rights (Mar 18), Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans (May 20), the movement for osteopathic medicine in the U.S. starts (Jun 22), the first public zoo in the U.S. opens in Philadelphia (Jul 1), the first incandescent light bulb is patented in both Canada and the United States, but the U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1852/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:00:46 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1852/ President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic (Jan 14), nine men from various Jewish charitable organizations form Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (Jan 15), the first British public toilet for women opens in London (Feb 11), French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first - around 30 km long - airship trip (Sep 24), Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1857/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:39:18 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1857/ Demonstration of the free-fall prevention mechanism in 1854 In the year 1857, the Estonian newspaper, Postimees, is established (Jan 1), the largest slave auction in the United States history is held in Savannah, Georgia (Mar 3), the first Otis elevator is installed, in New York City (Mar 23), Indian combatants capture Delhi from the British East India Company (May 11), the Victoria and Albert Museum is officially opened in London (Jun 22), Sheffield F. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1899/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:24:05 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1899/ In the year 1899, Opel Motors open for business (Jan 21), Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark (Mar 6), Jean Sibelius’s First Symphony premiers in Helsinki (Apr 26), gold is discovered in Nome, Alaska, leading to the Nome Gold Rush (Jul 27), Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident (Sep 13), the FC Barcelona Association football club is founded (Nov 29) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1819/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:16:05 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1819/ [caption id=“attachment_160” align=“alignright” width=“388”]SS Savannah in 1819[/caption] In the year 1819, Spain cedes Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and for $5 million (Feb 22), all onboard the French slave ship Le Rodeur become blind during the voyage over Atlantic, and consequently all of the slaves are thrown overboard (Apr 6), the SS Savannah leaves Georgia to become the first steamship to cross Atlantic, arriving at Liverpool on June 20 (May 22), Columbia acquires independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar (Aug 7), Museo del Prado opens in Madrid (Nov 19) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1839/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:08:37 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1839/ In the year 1839, the first photograph of the Moon is taken by the French photographer Louis Daguerre (Jan 2), the Boston Morning Post first records the use of “O.K” (which stands for “oll korrekt”) (Mar 23), the world’s first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation in England (Apr 9), Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (Jun 22), British forces seize Hong Kong as a base, as it prepares to wage the First Opium War (Aug 23) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1900/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:00:48 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1900/ [caption id=“attachment_152” align=“alignright” width=“426”]Zeppelin from the year 1936[/caption] In the year 1900, the first electric bus becomes operational in New York City (Jan 2), Dwight F Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament (Feb 9), Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country (Feb 14), the British Labour Party is formed (Feb 27), the Paris World Exhibition opens (Apr 14), Hawaii becomes an official U. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1821/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:16:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1821/ [caption id=“attachment_81” align=“alignleft” width=“294”]Blessing the flag of Revolution in 1821[/caption] In the year 1821, the revolutionary Greek flag is raised at Agia Lavra, marking the looming independence from the Ottoman Empire - later celebrated as the Greek Independence Day (Mar 25), Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena (May 5), the United States takes possession of Florida, the territory bought from Spain (Jul 10), the Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time (Aug 4), the world’s first geographical society is established in Paris, France (Dec 15), Spain loses many of its South American colonies during the year 1821 - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/the-19th-century/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:43:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/the-19th-century/ Jaffa Road in the 19th century Jerusalem Here you have all the years between 1801 and 1900. A century that saw hundreds of important inventions in all fields of science. Click on any of these years to see who was born where, and what they did or accomplished during their lives. If you have ancestors born during this time period, you can as a patron have them easily added in the list. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1867/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:33:33 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1867/ [caption id=“attachment_102” align=“alignleft” width=“354”]Alaska area compared with the other U.S. states[/caption] In the year 1867, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (Feb 3), Johann Strauss' The_ Blue Danube_ is first performed, in Vienna (Feb 13), the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars (Mar 30), Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada - the first independent dominion in the British Empire (May 29), Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital (Sep 14), the last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji (Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1889/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:19:28 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1889/ In the year 1889, the Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia (Jan 15), the Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (Mar 31) and opens for the public in Paris, France (May 6), the Wall Street Journal is established (Jun 8), the Children’s Charter is passed in the United Kingdom, imposing criminal penalties to deter child abuse (Aug 26), the Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris (Oct 6), in San Francisco, the first jukebox goes into operation (Nov 23) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1822/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:55:46 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1822/ [caption id=“attachment_3731” align=“alignright” width=“311”]Rosetta Stone (photo by Hans Hillewaert)[/caption] In the year 1822, the first group of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive to the west coast of Africa, founding later that year Monrovia (Jan 7), Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae (Jul 13), Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (Sep 7), Egyptian hieroglyphs are finally deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone (Sep 27), Pedro I is crowned as the first Emperor of Brazil (Dec 1) - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1888/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:46:55 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1888/ [caption id=“attachment_2595” align=“alignright” width=“304”]Flammarion engraving from 1888[/caption] In the year 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington D.C. (Jan 13), slavery is abolished in Brazil (May 13), horse-driven trams begin operating in Tallinn, Estonia (Aug 24), George Eastman receives patent for his Kodak camera, using roll film (Sep 4), the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1885, opens to the public (Oct 9), John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre (Dec 7), Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear in a moment of madness (Dec 23), Camille Flammarion’s book L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire - with the Flammarion engraving - is published - and all these fine people were born: https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1893/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:59:56 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/data-for-1893/ In the year 1893, the Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting (Jan 13), Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine (Feb 23), Gandhi arrives in South Africa where he will live until 1914 (May 23), New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote (Sep 19), Peder Krøyer completes his masterpiece Summer Evening on Skagen’s Southern Beach (Sep), the first car number plates appear in Paris, France (Oct 10), Edward Munch creates his most famous painting, The Scream - and all these fine people were born: