we posted a minute apart! Oh geez. :)
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we posted a minute apart! Oh geez. :)
:) that's quite weird!!
But hey, you put more stuff! Who knew we'd give so much importance to 1851!?
1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published
1849
On April 10, 1849 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin
Yay - I get 1848 - riots and rebellion all over Europe and the Americas - Sicily, Venezuela, Rome, Pest in Hungary, Sweden, Milan, Messina, Munich, Paris. England, Switzerland (one of the few successful.)
Thoreau publishes "Civil Disobedience"
Karl Marx publishes "The Communist Manifesto"
Women were revolting in Seneca Falls.
June 1st 1847 – First communist congress in London
1846 - September 23
Neptune is discovered
1845
January 29 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
March 4 - James K. Polk succeeds John Tyler as President of the United States of America
December 2 - Manifest Destiny: US President James Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West
Beginning of the Irish potato famine
1844
January 15 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
February 27 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
February 28 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
March 8 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
May 24 - First electrical telegram sent by Samuel Morse from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
June 15 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
June 22 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
November 6 - The Dominican Republic drafts its first Constitution.
November 23 - Birth of Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer
First ever international cricket match is played in New York City between Canada and the United States.
1843
May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for the northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
November 28 - Ka La Ku'oko'a: Hawaiian Independence Day. The Kingdom of Hawai`i was officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. (Hummmmm.....)
First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.
1842
February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine.
March 9 - Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
May 8 - Two trains collide in Paris and catch fire - 59 dead
June 4 - In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into British military base in Grahamstown to warn that Boers have besieged Durban. He had left 11 days earlier. British army dispatches a relief force.
December 20 - The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established.
1841 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong on January 26.
1840 - May 1
Britain issues the world's first postage stamp
1839
January 2 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
January 24 Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
February 24 - William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.
March 9 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
April 9 - The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line from Paddington station to West Drayton.
November 17 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
Year 1838
November 5 - Proteins discovered by Jöns Jakob Berzelius
- First British-Afghan War begins
September 7 - The paddlesteamer Forfarshire foundered on the Farne
Islands, UK, giving rise to the fame of Grace Darling, who
rescued nine passengers.
August 1 - Trinidad & Tobago: Slavery officially abolished
May 26 - USA: Trail of Tears - forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe, killing 4,000.