1822 - December 27
French scientist Louis Pasteur is born
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1822 - December 27
French scientist Louis Pasteur is born
1821
March 25 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire is born
November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky is born
December 12 - Gustave Flaubert
February 23 - John Keats dies
1820
Spring - Joseph Smith, Jr. at the age 14 was visited in a vision by God and Jesus Christ known by Latter-day Saints as the First Vision (Tradition holds that this occurred on April 6) This marks the founding of what today is the Mormon Church, or The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints.
After Smith was murdered in 1844 at the hands of a mob in Carthage, Illinois jail, the largest body of Latter-day Saints followed Brigham Young, who eventually became President of his denomination, in an exodus to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving there in July of 1847. Smaller groups of Saints followed other claimants to the church presidency, some staying behind in Nauvoo, Illinois, and others dispersing to separate locations.
The term Mormon continues to be used to refer to members of this group that followed Brigham Young, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not to related smaller denominations that separated from this group over issues such as polygamy. Individual leaders within the hierarchy of the LDS Church have sometimes made explicit effort to reject the use of the term "Mormon," as it does not include a reference to Jesus, whom the church asserts to be its central figure. As a general policy, however, while the church prefers the use of its full name, use of the term LDS or Mormon is not considered offensive or incorrect.
1819
February 8 - Birth of John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic
February 22 - Birth of James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist
May 31 - Birth of Walt Whitman, American poet
August 6 Norwich University founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
August 1 -birth of Herman Melville, American novelist
November 22 - Birth of George Eliot, British novelist
December 14 - Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
1818
Feb 6: Bernadotte becomes King of Sweden as Charles XIV.
Emily Bronte (author of one novel) born
James Joule (physicist) born
Charles Gounod (composer) born
Frederick Douglass (abolitionist etc) born
Karl Marx (political theorist) born
Caspar Wessel (geometer and mathematician) died
"Frankenstein" published
Great Rebellion fails against British in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1817
March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America.
July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, Born (d. 1862)
July 18 - Jane Austen, English novelist, Died (b. 1775)
1816
The feared Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins in January.
Known as the "Year Without A Summer" or "Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death" in the northern hemisphere due to global cooling caused by the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption that had occurred in 1815.
April 21 - Birth of Charlotte Brontë, British novelist
June 19 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Hudson Bay and Northwest fur-trading companies, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
July 9 - Argentina gains independence from Spain
November - James Monroe defeats Rufus King in U.S. presidential election.
December 11 - Indiana is admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
1815
War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans
February 3 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland...love cheese!!!
March 20 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
April 5-April 12 - Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top during an eruption event. Upwards of 92,000 are killed during this eruption. The event is the cause of 1816 becoming known as the Year Without a Summer.
June 18 - Battle of Waterloo ends the Napoleonic wars.
unknown date: First-class cricket begins :confused:
1814 - September 14
Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1813
Jan 10 - 14 Luddites executed at York
May 2 - battle at Lutzen
June 21 - battle of Vittoria
Oct 7 - France invaded
Oct 16-18 - Napoleon defeated at Leipsic
May 22 - Wagner born in Leipsic
Oct 9 - Verdi born
Kierkegaard born
Charles Harpur (Australian poet) born
Lagrange (greatest mathematician of C18th) dies
1812
February 7 - The last New Madrid Earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8. It has been said that it made the Mississippi River flow backwards for a time!
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War/Sixth Coalition/Patriotic War of 1812
War of 1812 (1812-1815)
1811 - birth of Franz Liszt!
1810
January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
April 27 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
June 8 - Birth of Robert Schumann, German composer
July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain
September 16 - Dieciséis de septiembre, the Mexican War of Independence of the Republic of Mexico.
unknown date: King George III of the United Kingdom recognized as insane.
1809
Sir John Moore died at Corunna
Feb 12 - Abe Lincoln born, in a log cabin that he'd built himself.
Nice joke, Wiff! I remember when that one went around! :)
1808
January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned; this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery. (How the Mighty have fallen! Why didn't they do that in the first place, pray tell?)