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: Continue reading

[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: Continue reading

[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. Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

[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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

[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: Continue reading

[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. Continue reading

[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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading

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: Continue reading