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1854
October 25 - Crimean War: The Battle of Balaclava occurs, overall a victory for the allies, but it included the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700 men survive. (Somehow the poem says "600") http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/fr...smiley-013.gif
1853
Taiping Rebellion in China
US President Pierce arrested in office for running over old lady with his horse – case dropped for lack of evidence.
March 30: Vincent Van Gogh born
April : Harriet Tubman starts “underground railway” to liberate slaves.
Nov 30: Russians destroy Turkish fleet off Sinop
1852
November 2 - Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia in the U.S. presidential election
Even most American's who read this will say "Who?" He was one of the most forgettable presidents we ever had. This except from his biography explains why to some extent:
His good looks and inoffensive personality caused him to make many friends, but he suffered tragedy in his personal life and as president subsequently made decisions which were widely criticized and divisive in their effects, thus giving him the reputation as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history. Pierce's popularity in the North went down sharply after he came out in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and reopening the question of the expansion of slavery in the West. Pierce's credibility was further damaged when several of his foreign ministers issued the Ostend Manifesto. Historian David Potter concludes that the Ostend Manifesto and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were "the two great calamities of the Franklin Pierce administration.... Both brought down an avalanche of public criticism." More important says Potter, they permanently discredited Manifest Destiny and popular sovereignty. [Potter 1976 p 193]
Abandoned by his party, Pierce was not renominated at the 1856 presidential election and was replaced by James Buchanan. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle with alcoholism as his marriage to Jane Means Appleton Pierce fell apart. His reputation was further damaged when he declared support for the Confederacy and died in 1869 from cirrhosis.
1851
Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times (why?)
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria
The New York Times is founded
Reuters news service founded
Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" is published
1851
January 11 - Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
March 1 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
March 27 - First reported case of white men seeing Yosemite Valley.
July - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played.
July 1 - Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales.
September 18 - The New York Times is founded.
October - Reuters news service founded.
November 14 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, by Richard Bentley, London.
December 26-27 - Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe.
December 29 - The first YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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.
1837 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne on June 20.
1836
John Wesley wrote that "the time, times and half a time" of Revelation 12:14 were 1058*1836, "when Christ should come" (apud A. M. Morris, The Prophecies Unveiled, p. 361)
1835
January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dollars
January 7 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
January 30 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
March 2 - Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.
September 7 – Charles Darwin arrives at Galapagos Islands aboard HMS Beagle
November 16 - Comet Halley reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the sun.
November 19 - A force of 500 Māori invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.
December 1 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.
1834
January 1 - Abolition of customs charges at borders within Germany.
January 3 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
February 8 - Birth of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
February 9 - Birth of Felix Dahn, German author
March 6 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
June 7 - Greek independence general Theodoros Kolokotronis is sentenced to death for treason for resisting the rule of Otto of Greece (he is released next year).
July 16 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
July 24 - End of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
August 1 - Slavery abolished in the British Empire (see Slavery Abolition Act).
August 15 - South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
December 10 - Sir Robert Peel succeeds Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister of the UK
1833: Oberlin College Ohio is opened - the first college to admit women and black students.
1832
January 6 -Birth of Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (died 1883)
January 27 - Birth of Lewis Carroll, English author (died 1898)
February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
February 12 – Cholera breaks out in London, claiming at least 3000 victims. It spreads to France and North America later this year.
April 6 - USA: The Black Hawk War begins.
May 7 - The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. Thus begins the History of modern Greece.
September 21 - Death of Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (born 1771)
November 29 - Birth of Louisa May Alcott, American author (died 1888)
December 4 - Battle of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch enforcement, the citadel, is under French attack.
December 15 - Birth of Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (died 1923)
1831
February-March - Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops.
February 2 - Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII as the 252nd pope.
February 14 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
February 20 - Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.
March 10 - French Foreign Legion founded.
March 29 - The Great Bosnian uprising
April 7 - Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as emperor of Brazil in favor of his son Pedro II of Brazil.
May 26 - Battle of Ostroleka. The Poles fight another indecisive battle.
July 21 - Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
August 2 - Dutch invasion of Belgium. It is repelled by a French army (ten-day campaign).
August 21 - USA: Outbreak of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. (Death November 11 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
September 6-8 - Battle of Warsaw - The Russians take the Polish capital and crush resistance.
December 27 - Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
December 31 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1830
February 3 - Greece gains full independence from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. Negotiations for the borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervision of Russia, France and Britain.
May 13 - Ecuador separates from Gran Colombia.
June 26 - William IV succeeds George IV as King of the United Kingdom.
July 18 - Uruguay adopts its first constitution.
July 20 - Greece grants citizenship to Jews.
July 27 - France: Beginning of the July Revolution
August 9 - France: Louis Philippe becomes King of the French
November 22 - The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
November 29 - Beginning of a major Polish insurrection in Warsaw against Russian rule
December 10 - Birth of Emily Dickinson, American poet
1829
January 19 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
March 4 - USA: Andrew Jackson succeeds John Quincy Adams as the President of the United States of America.
March 12 - First Oxford and Cambridge boat race held on the River Thames in London.
March 22 - Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia, France and Britain.
March 31 - Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo XII as the 251st pope
July 2 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which would bring the Russian army within 68 km from Istanbul.
July 23 - In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a writing mechanism.
December 4 - India: In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
1828
January 4 - France: The Vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villčle as Prime Minister of France.
January 22 - UK: The Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
February 8 - Birth of Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
August 27 – South America: Brazil and Argentina recognize the independence of Uruguay.
September 9-Birth of Russian author Leo Tolstoy
September 29 - Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Varna is taken by the Russian army.
December 3 - U.S. presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States
1827
Kingdow of Hawaii: Diocese of Honolulu founded on July 14. :geek: I never knew Hawaii once was a monarchy :blush:.
Oh, and on March 8, Wilhelm Bleek was born. He was a German linguist. Probably one of the lesser know heros of that time :D.
1826
February 11 - University College London is founded, under the name University of London
June - Photography: Nicéphore Niépce makes a true photograph.
Early July - Ludwig van Beethoven put the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
July 4 - Death of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
July 4 - Death John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
July 26 - Cholera epidemic begins in India
1825
July 14 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn....dunno why I laughed when I first read it!
August 6 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru as a republic with the instigation of Simón Bolívar.
August 25 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
September 7 - Brazil Gains independence from Portugal
September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.
First roller skates.
Aluminium discovered.
City of Brisbane founded
1824
January 8 - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against
May 7 - one of Beethoven's greatest masterpieces, Symphony No. 9, premieres in Vienna
July 27 - Birth of Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer
September 16 - Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France.
1823
September 10 - Simón Bolívar named President of Peru
Ferdinand VII revokes the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and restores absolute monarchy.
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)