Timeline 1821-1830
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1821 Jan 4, The
first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in
Emmitsburg, Md.
(AP, 1/4/98)
1821 Jan 21, John Breckinridge
(d.1875), 14th U.S. Vice President, was born. He served under James
Buchanan (1857-1861). Breckenridge was a Confederate General in the
Civil War. [His ?brother-in-law was Lloyd Tevis, founder of Wells Fargo]
(WUD, 1994, p.183)(HN, 1/21/99)
1821 Feb 3, Elizabeth Blackwell
(d.1910), first woman to get an MD from a U.S. medical school, was born
in Bristol, England.
(HN, 2/3/99)(ON, 4/03, p.3)
1821 Feb 11, Auguste Edouard
Mariette, French Egyptologist, (dug out Sphinx 12/16/42), was born.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1821 Feb 12, The Mercantile
Library of City of NY opened.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1821 Feb 21, Charles Scribner, was
born. He founded the New York Publishing firm which became Charles
Scribner's Sons and also founded Scribner's magazine.
(HN, 2/21/99)
1821 Feb 22, The Adams-Onis Treaty
became final, whereby Spain gave up all of Florida to the US. The
boundary between Mexico and the Louisiana Purchase was established and
the US renounced all claims to Texas.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)
1821 Feb 23, College of
Apothecaries, the 1st US pharmacy college, was organized in
Philadelphia.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1821 Feb 23, John Keats, English
poet, died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. In 1998 the biography
"Keats" by Andrew Motion was published. Earlier biographies included
one by W. Jackson Bates (1963), and a novelistic psychological portrait
by Aileen Ward (1963). The standard work on Keats was written by Robert
Gittings in 1968.
(WP, 1951, p.11)(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A17)(SFEC, 3/29/98,
BR p.6)
1821 Feb 24, Mexico rebels
proclaimed the "Plan de Iguala," their declaration of independence from
Spain, and took over the mission lands in California.
(HT, 3/97, p.61)(AP, 2/24/98)(HN, 2/24/98)
1821 Mar 5, Monroe was the first
president to be inaugurated on March 5, only because the 4th was a
Sunday.
(HN, 3/5/98)
1821 Mar 14, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church founded in NY.
(MC, 3/14/02)
1821 Mar 15, Josef Loschmidt
(d.1895), a pioneer of 19th-century physics and chemistry, was born in
Putschim (Pocerny), Bohemia. In his first publication (1861) Loschmidt
proposed the first structural chemical formulae for many important
molecules, introducing markings for double and triple carbon bonds. In
1865 he became the first person to use the kinetic theory of gases to
obtain a reasonably good value for the diameter of a molecule. What we
call "Avogadro's number" is, in German-speaking countries, called
"Loschmidt's number."
(www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-3/p45.html)
1821 Mar 19, Sir Richard Burton
(d.1890), English explorer, was born.
(HN, 3/19/01)
1821 Mar 25, Greece gained
independence from Turkey (National Day). [see Mar 28]
(MC, 3/25/02)
1821 Mar 26, Franz Grillparzer's
"Das Goldene Vliess" premiered in Vienna.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1821 Mar 28, Greek Independence
Day celebrates the liberation of Southern Greece from Turkish
domination. In 1844 Thomas Gordon authored a study of the Greek
revolution. In 2001 David Brewer authored "The Greek War of
Independence."
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A15)(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A20)
1821 Apr 4, Linus Yale, American
portrait painter and inventor of the Yale lock, was born.
(HN, 4/4/01)(MC, 4/4/02)
1821 Apr 9, Charles Baudelaire
(d.1867), French poet, was born. His works were censored and he was
considered a pathetic psychopath; he also became the most acute critic
of his age in France. He was photographed by Felix Nadar in 1855.
(V.D.-H.K.p.278)(Smith., 5/95, p.72)(HN, 4/9/01)
1821 Apr 20, Franz K. Achard (67),
German physicist, chemist, died.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1821 May 3, The Richmond
[Virginia] Light Artillery was organized.
(RC handout, 5/27/96)
1821 May 5, Napoleon Bonaparte,
emperor France (1799-1815), died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
He died by slow poisoning at the hands of his companion Charles Tristan
de Montholon on the island of St. Helena. Scottish pathologist Dr.
Hamilton Smith later used Napoleon’s hair to determine that arsenic had
been administered about 40 times from 1820-1821. In 1992 Proctor
Patterson Jones authored "Napoleon, An Intimate Account." In 1999 an
English translation of Jean-Paul Kauffmann's "The Black Room at
Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on St. Helena" was published. In 1904 F. De
Bouirrienne published "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte." In 1988 S. De
Chair edited "Napoleon's Memoirs."
(V.D.-H.K.p.232)(AP, 5/5/97)(SFEC, 1/18/98, BR
p.9)(SFEC, 8/16/98, Z1 p.8)(SFC, 4/8/99, p.C5)(AP, 8/8/97)(SFEC,
8/1/99, Par p.16)(MC, 5/5/02)
1821 May 25, Diederich Krug,
composer, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1821 Jun 2, Ion Bratianu (Lib),
premier of Romania (1876-88), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1821 Jun 19, The Ottomans defeated
the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1821 Jun 21, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church was organized in NYC as a national body.
[see Mar 14]
(MC, 6/21/02)
1821 Jun 24, Battle of Carabobo:
Bolivar defeated the royalists outside of Caracas.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1821 Jul 2, Charles Tupper, 6th
Canadian PM (1896), was born.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1821 Jul 6, Edmund Pettus
(d.1907), for whom the civil rights landmark Edmund Pettus Bridge was
named, was born in Alabama. He earned his fame as a Confederate
brigadier general. Pettus was a lawyer and judge and served throughout
the western theater during the Civil War. He resumed his law practice
after the war and went on to serve in the U.S. Senate. Pettus died
while in his second term in Congress. The Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma, Alabama, became a civil rights landmark when on March 7, 1965, a
band of civil rights marchers on their way to Montgomery crossed the
bridge, only to be attacked by state troopers on the other side.
(HNQ, 10/21/01)
1821 Jul 13, Confederate cavalry
commander Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Tennessee’s Bedford County.
(AP, 7/13/97)
1821 Jul 16, Mary Baker Eddy
(d.1910), founder of the Christian Science movement (1879), was born.
(HN, 7/16/98)(WSJ, 9/26/03, p.W17)
1821 Jul 17, Spain ceded Florida
to the United States. [see Feb 22]
(AP, 7/17/97)
1821 Jul 17, Andrew Jackson became
the governor of Florida.
(HN, 7/17/98)
1821 Jul 19, The coronation of
George IV of England was held. His wife, Caroline, was refused
admittance. She died Aug 7.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom)
1821 Jul 28, Peru declared its
independence from Spain. Lima had been the seat of the Spanish viceroys
until this time. Jose Francisco de San Martin of Argentina had
blockaded Lima and forced the Spanish viceroy to abandon the city.
Martin returned to Argentina in 1822
(SFC, 12/20/96, p.B4)(AP, 7/28/97)(ON, 10/09, p.10)
1821 Jul, English captain John
Franklin led a party to explore the Barrens in northwest section of
Canada’s Hudson Bay. George Back, midshipman, Royal Navy, painted a
scene of the Sandstone Rapids on the Arctic Circle of Canada’s
Northwest Territories. Of the 20 men in the party to map the northern
coast of Canada west of the Hudson Bay, 11 starved and froze to death.
Back returned to England and was hailed as "the man who ate his boots."
Twenty-three years later he led a third arctic expedition of 129 men in
two ships and all perished.
(NH, 5/96, p.30)(WSJ, 2/10/95, p.A-7)
1821 Aug 4, The 1st edition of
Saturday Evening Post was published. It continued until 1969.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1821 Aug 7, Caroline of Brunswick
(b.1768), wife of England’s King George IV, died. In 2006 Jane Robins
authored “The Trial of Queen Caroline: The Scandalous Affair that
Nearly Ended a Monarchy.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom)(Econ,
8/5/06, p.76)
1821 Aug 10, Missouri became the
24th state.
(AP, 8/10/97)
1821 Aug 19, There was a failed
liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1821 Aug 23, After 11 years of
war, Spain granted Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy.
Spanish Viceroy Juan de O'Donoju signed the Treaty of Cordoba, which
approved a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
(HN, 8/23/00)(MC, 8/23/02)
1821 Aug 28, In the city of Puebla
a nun served a tri-colored chili dish to the Emperor Agustin de
Iturbide, who was on his way home from signing the Treaty of Cordoba,
which effectively freed Mexico from Spain. Iturbide, a Creole, had led
the suppression of the initial rebellion for independence. He later
abdicated, went into exile, returned and was executed. After Iturbide
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led the country over 11 presidential terms.
(WSJ, 9/5/96, p.B1)(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)
1821 Sep 1, William Becknell led a
group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on what would
become the Santa Fe Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)
1821 Sep 10, English captain John
Franklin led a party to explore the Barrens in northwest section of
Canada’s Hudson Bay. Naturalist John Richards recorded that they found
the summer track of a man, where summer last only 8-weeks.
(NH, 5/96, p.30)
1821 Sep 15, A junta convened by
the captain-general in Guatemala declared independence for its
provinces Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua San Salvador and
Chiapas.
(AP, 9/15/97)(EWH, 1968, p.843)
1821 Sep 27, The Mexican Empire
declared its independence. Revolutionary forces occupied Mexico City as
the Spanish withdraw.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1821 Oct 5, Greek rebels captured
Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Peloponnesian area of Greece.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1821 Oct 13, Rudolf Virchow,
German politician and anthropologist (cell pathology), was born.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1821 Oct 16, Albert Franz Doppler,
composer, was born.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1821 Oct 17, Alexander Gardner,
American photographer, was born. He documented the Civil War and the
West.
(HN, 10/17/00)
1821 Nov 9, The 1st US pharmacy
college held 1st classes in Philadelphia.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1821 Nov 10, Andreas J Romberg
(54), German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1821 Nov 11, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky (d.1881), Russian novelist who wrote "The Brothers
Karamazov," was born. "Originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity
are achieved only through work and struggle."
(AP, 12/9/97)(HN, 11/11/98)
1821 Nov 16, Trader William
Becknell reached Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as
the Santa Fe Trail.
(HN, 11/16/98)
1821 Dec 12, Gustave Flaubert
(d.1880), French novelist, was born. "Our ignorance of history causes
us to slander our own times." [see May 8, 1880]
(V.D.-H.K.p.278)(AP, 6/19/99)(HN, 12/12/99)
1821 Dec 17, Kentucky abolished
debtor’s prisons.
(MC, 12/17/01)
1821 Dec 25, Clara Barton
(d.1912), the founder of the American Red Cross, was born in North
Oxford, Massachusetts. She worked as a volunteer nurse during the Civil
War, distributing food and medical supplies to troops and earning
herself the label "Angel of the Battlefield." She later served
alongside the International Red Cross in Europe--however, she could not
work directly with the organization because she was a woman. In 1882
she formed an American branch of the Red Cross. Barton lobbied for the
Geneva Convention and she expanded the mission of the Red Cross to
include helping victims of peacetime disasters. Clara Barton died at
her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, on April 12, 1912, when she was 90
years old.
(HNPD, 12/26/98)(WUD, 1994 p.123)
1821 Dec 28, Gioacchino Rossini
moved to Bologna.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1821 In California Esteban Munras,
engaged by Friar Juan Francisco Martin, arrived at Mission San Miguel
and supervised the interior decorations of the new church. Munras, an
artist trained by the Spanish, designed murals for the new church.
(SB, 3/28/02)(SFC, 10/1/09, p.E6)
1821 Owen Chase, the first mate,
ghost-wrote the "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing
Shipwreck of the White-Whale ship Essex." The story inspired Herman
Melville’s "Moby Dick." In 2000 Nathaniel Philbrick authored "In the
Heart of the Sea," a complete investigation into the Nantucket whaler’s
story and "the taboo of gastronomic incest."
(WSJ, 4/28/00, p.W6)
1821 Thomas Jefferson wrote his
autobiography.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.62)
1821 Stefano Cavaletti, Italian
tuner and craftsman, left a note on the snaggle-toothed spinet that he
tuned for the young Verdi, free of charge due to Verdi’s talent.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.90)
1821 An independent institution
for the instruction of Lutheran and reformed theologies was established
at the Univ. of Vienna.
(StuAus, April ‘95, p.18)
1821 In the US Emma Willard
started the first secondary school for girls in Troy, N.Y.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, Z1,p.2)
1821 John Quincy Adams, Sec. of
State, wrote: "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to
destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion only of her own."
(WSJ, 6/25/97, p.A20)
1821 Tucson raised the Mexican
flag after the Revolution in Mexico.
(AWAM, Dec. 94, p.31)
1821 In the US south Denmark
Vessey mounted a slave rebellion.
(SFC, 6/24/96, p.A19)
1821 John (Cameron) Gilroy of
Scotland married Maria Clara Ortega, the 13-year-old granddaughter of
Jose Francis Ortega, a member of the "Sacred Expedition" of 1769. They
lived in San Ysidro. The town of Gilroy, Ca., is named after John
Gilroy.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.A18)
1821 Ignaz Venetz-Sitten, Swiss
civil engineer, recognized the continent covering scale of the
Pleistocene glaciers.
(DD-EVTT, p.128)
1821 Thomas Johann Seebeck
(1770-1831), Estonia-born German physicist, discovered that applying a
temperature difference across two adjoined metals would give rise to a
small voltage. This came to be called the Seebeck effect.
(Econ, 9/6/08, TQ p.6)
1821 The 1st alphabet for
Hawaiians was prepared by Christians missionaries. The letters of the
alphabet were a,e,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,u,w.
(SSFC, 4/4/04, Par p.17)(Internet)
1821 Amherst College was founded
in Amherst, Mass.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_College)
1821 The Boston English High
School, the first US public high school, held its opening classes.
(HNQ, 7/5/00)
1821 One hunter in 12 months shot
18,000 migrating golden plover for the dinner table.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, Z1,p.2)
1821 William Playfair, Scottish
engineer, political economist and scoundrel, published a visual chart
that displayed the “weekly wages of a good mechanic” along with the
price of a “quarter of wheat” with the reigns of monarchs displayed
along the top.
(Econ, 12/22/07, p.74)
1821 Anita Ribeiro (d.1849), later
wife of Italian revolutionary Garibaldi, was born in Laguna Brazil.
(ON, 10/06, p.5)
1821 Guatemala established
independence
(NG, 6/1988, p.781)
1821 Mexican rule began over the
New Mexico territory.
(SSFC, 5/22/05, p.E12)
1821 Ignatz Venetz, Swiss civil
engineer, presented a paper titled “Temperature Variation in the Swiss
Alps” to the Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences, in which he
described retreating ice glaciers and acknowledged Jean-Pierre
Perraudin, a hunter and mountain guide, as the originator of the idea
that a glacier had once occupied the full length of the Val de Bagnes.
In 1833 Jean de Charpentier (1786-1855), a German-Swiss geologist,
arranged to have the paper published.
(ON, 10/08,
p.10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Charpentier)
1821-1846 Mexico ruled over California with a series
of 12 governors. During part of this time Gen’l. Jose Castro commanded
all of the Spanish forces in California and was an active opponent of
US rule in 1846.
(SFEC, 9/21/97, p.C7)
1821-1858 Elisa Rachel Felix, French actress, died of
tuberculosis. She introduced a new voicing into French theater in part
due to her physical condition.
(WP, 1951, p.21-22)
1821-1881 Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss critic:
"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."
(AP, 8/3/97)
1821-1894 Hermann Helmholtz, German physician turned
physicist, a leader in energetics who helped establish the principle of
the conservation of energy along with Kelvin.
(TNG, Klein, p.88)
1821-1924 Thirty-three million people arrive into the
US in this period.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.52)
1822 Jan 2, Rudolph J.E. Clausius,
German physicist (thermodynamics), was born.
(MC, 1/2/02)
1822 Jan 6, Heinrich Schliemann,
German polyglot and archaeologist (discovered Troy), was born.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1822 Feb 4, Free American Blacks
settled Liberia, West Africa. The first group of colonists landed in
Liberia and founded Monrovia, the colony's capital city, named in honor
of President James Monroe.
(HNPD, 7/26/98)(MC, 2/4/02)
1822 Feb 9, The American Indian
Society organized.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1822 Feb 16, Francis Galton
(d.1911), English scientist, was born. He was one of the first moderns
to present a carefully considered eugenics program.
(NH, 6/97, p.18)(SFC, 8/28/97,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton)
1822 Feb 22, Adolf Kuszmaul,
German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), was born.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1822 Feb 23, Boston was granted a
charter to incorporate as a city.
(AP, 2/23/98)
1822 Mar 9, The first patent for
false teeth was requested by C. Graham of NY. [see Jun 9, 1882]
(HN, 3/9/98)(MC, 3/9/02)
1822 Mar 16, John Pope, Union
general in the American Civil War, was born.
(HN, 3/16/01)
1822 Mar 16, Rosa Bonheur, French
painter and sculptor, was born.
(HN, 3/16/01)
1822 Mar 19, Boston was
incorporated as a city.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1822 Mar 22, Gioacchino Rossini
married Isabella Colbran in Bologna.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1822 Mar 30, Congress combined
East and West Florida into the Florida Territory.
(AP, 3/30/97)(MC, 3/30/02)
1822 Apr 3, Edward Everett Hale,
American clergyman and author (Man without a Country) , was born.
(HN, 4/3/98)
1822 Apr 13, Gaetano Valeri (61),
composer, died.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1822 Apr 26, Frederick Olmstead,
landscape architect, was born in Connecticut. His work included
Yosemite Nat’l. Park, Central Park in New York City (1858), and other
city parks in Boston, Ma., Hartford, Ct., and Louisville, Ky.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.5)(SFC, 4/5/04,
p.B5)
1822 Apr 27, Ulysses S. Grant
(d.1885), general and 18th U.S. president (1869-1877), was born in
Point Pleasant [Hiram], Ohio.
(AP, 4/27/97)(HN, 4/27/02)
1822 May 24, At Battle of
Pichincha (Ecuador) General Sucre (1795-1830) won a decisive victory
against Spanish forces. Shortly after the battle, Sucre and Bolivar
entered the newly-liberated Quito and Sucre was named President of the
Province of Quito, which formed Gran Colombia with Venezuela and
Colombia.
(HN, 5/24/98)(AP,
11/24/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_de_Sucre)
1822 May 26, Edmond de Goncourt,
writer, was born.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1822 May, Dr. Gideon Mantell
published his book “The Fossils of South Downs,” based on his studies
of huge teeth and bones found at the Tilgate Forest quarry.
(ON, 7/06, p.1)
1822 Jun 6, Alexis St. Martin, a
fur trader at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory, was accidentally
shot in the abdomen. William Beaumont, a US Army assistant surgeon,
treated the wound and St. Martin survived. The stomach wound did not
close and Beaumont undertook experiments in 1825 to study the digestive
system.
(ON, 1/02, p.6)
1822 Jun 9, Charles Graham
patented false teeth. [see Mar 9, 1822]
(MC, 6/9/02)
1822 Jun 16, Denmark Vessey
[Vesey] led a slave rebellion in South Carolina. [see Jul 2]
(MC, 6/16/02)
1822 Jun 18, Slave revolt leaders
Denmark Vesey [Vessey] and Peter Poyas were arrested in SC.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1822 Jun 14, Charles Babbage
(1792-1871), a young Cambridge mathematician, announced the invention
of a machine capable of performing simple arithmetic calculations in a
paper to the Astronomical Society. His 1st Difference Engine could
perform up to 60 error-free calculation in 5 minutes. Babbage and
engineer John Clement completed the calculator portion of a new engine
in 1832, but the project lost funding and remained unfinished.
(I&I, Penzias, p.94)(ON, 5/05, p.5)
1822 Jun 25, Ernst Theodor Amadeus
(ETA) Hoffmann (46), German writer, judge, composer, died.
(MC, 6/25/02)
1822 Jul 2, Denmark Vesey [Vessey]
(b.1767) was executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a
massive slave revolt.
(HN, 7/2/01)
1822 Jul 8, Percy Bysshe Shelley
(b.1792), English poet, drowned while sailing in Italy at age 29.
(HN, 7/8/01)
1822 Jul 22, Gregor Johann Mendel
(d.1884), Austrian botanist who developed the theory of heredity, was
born.
(HN, 7/22/98)(NH, 6/01, p.30)
1822 Jul 25, Gen. Agustin de
Iturbide was crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1822 Jul 26, Simon Bolivar and
Jose de San Martin held a secret meeting.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1822 Aug 19, Melchor Lopez Jimenez
(62), composer, died.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1822 Aug 25, F. William Herschel
(85), German astronomer (discovered Uranus), died.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1822 Aug 31, Fitz John Porter
(d.1901), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1822 Sep 6, John Constable,
English painter, painted his “Cloud Study, 6 September 1822.” He
painted some 100 studies of the sky between 1821-1822.
(MC, 3/31/02)(WSJ, 6/9/04, p.D8)
1822 Sep 7, Brazil declared its
independence from Portugal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil)(AP,
9/7/97)
1822 Sep 9, Napoleon J K P
Bonaparte, French prince and member National Convention, was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1822 Oct 4, Rutherford B. Hayes,
the 19th president (R) of the United States, was born in Delaware,
Ohio. Hayes was a major-general in the Civil War, then an Ohio
congressman, then succeeded Grant as president (1877-81). Hayes won the
Electoral College by a margin of one vote after his opponent won the
popular vote in an election so fraught with charges of vote fraud that
there were even fears of a coup. Hayes refused to seek a second
term.
(AP, 10/4/97)(HN, 10/4/98)(MC, 10/3/01)
1822 Oct 8, The Galunggung volcano
on Java sent boiling sludge into valley. The eruption left 4,011 dead.
The long-inactive volcano erupted Apr 4 and blew its top on Apr 12. The
Oct 8 and Oct 12 eruptions left 4,011 dead.
(www.emergency-management.net/volcanic.htm)
1822 Oct 9, George Sykes (d.1880),
Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1822 Oct 13, Antonio Canova
(b.1757), Italian sculptor, died at age 64. His work included a
sculpture of Napoleon’s sister Pauline, as a semi-naked Venus Victrix.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova)(Econ,
11/10/07, p.105)
1822 Oct 15, Alfred Meissner,
Austrian physician and writer, was born.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1822 Oct 20, The 1st edition of
the London Sunday Times was published.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1822 Dec 1, Franz Liszt (11) made
his debut as a pianist for Isabella Colbran.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1822 Dec 4, Frances Crabbe,
English feminist and founder of the Anti-Vivisection Society, was born.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1822 Dec 6, John Eberhard was
born. He built the 1st large-scale pencil factory in US.
(MC, 12/6/01)
1822 Dec 12, Mexico was officially
recognized as an independent nation by US.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1822 Dec 14, John Christie,
English patron of music, was born. He founded the Glyndebourne Festival
Opera.
(HN, 12/14/99)
1822 Dec 14, The Congress of
Verona ended, ignoring the Greek war of independence.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1822 Dec 26, Dion Boucicault,
Irish-US actor and playwright (Rip van Winkle), was born.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1822 Dec 27, Louis Pasteur
(d.1895), French chemist and microbiologist, was born in Dole, France.
One of his several monumental contributions to science and industry was
pasteurization, the process of heating wine, beer and milk to kill
microorganisms that cause fermentation and disease. Pasteur also
developed important vaccines and his work on molecular asymmetry led to
the science of stereochemistry. He was the first to vaccinate animals
for anthrax and chicken cholera, and in 1885 he proved that his rabies
vaccine could be used successfully on humans when he saved the life of
a 9-year-old boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog. The Pasteur
Institute was formed in Paris in 1888 for research on rabies. Pasteur
ran the institute until his death in 1895.
(WUD, 1994, p.1055)(AP, 12/27/97)(HNPD, 12/27/98)
1822 Dec 28, William Booth
Taliaferro (d.1898), Brig Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1822 Charles Willson Peale painted
his "Self Portrait."
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.E1)
1822 Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
(1758-1823) painted "A Grief-Stricken Family." It was painted shortly
after his student and mistress, Constance Mayer, slit her throat.
(WSJ, 4/8/98, p.A20)
1822 Utagawa Kunisada, Japanese
artist, painted "The Popular Type."
(WSJ, 4/24/96, A-12)
1822 William West painted a
portrait of the poet Lord Byron.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.D3)
1822 J.F. Champollion published
his work on deciphering the Rosetta Stone.
(RFH-MDHP, p.183)
1822 Thomas De Quincey wrote his
"Confessions of an English Opium Eater." He used the word tranquilizer
to describe the effect of the drug.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, Z 1 p.2)
1822 The Queen of the Angels Roman
Catholic Church in Los Angeles was built.
(SFEC,12/797, p.T3)
1822 Twenty years after the war of
1812 the US government finished paying off the national debt entirely.
(WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A18)
1822 The Superintendent of Mails
in Washington, D.C., complained about the need to hire 16 extra mailmen
because of the volume of Christmas cards and holiday mail. The
tradition of Christmas cards had become so popular it became a burden
for the United States Postal System, which petitioned Congress to limit
the exchange of cards by post. But the cards kept coming and the postal
burden worsened.
(HNQ, 12/15/99)
1822 California became part of
Mexico.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)
1822 Monterey had begun the
century as the Spanish capital of Alta California but in this year
became the Mexican capital of Alta California.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, DB p.71)
1822 Christian Buschmann (17),
organ and clavier tuner, constructed the first primitive accordion. It
wasn’t until the 1840s that the "magdaburgerspelen" came into fashion,
the instrument generally believed to be the forerunner to the durspel
of our time.
(www.weirdal.0catch.com/txt/squeezeplay.html)
1822 Mary Mantell, a fossil
collector in Sussex, England, discovered a handful of teeth that her
husband, Dr. Gideon Mantell, recognized as similar to those of the
iguana lizard of South America. This was recorded as one of the first
dinosaurs to be discovered.
(T.E.-J.B. p.20)
1822 The parasitic plant Rafflesia
was discovered in the lowland forests of Southeast Asia. It steals
nutrition from other plants and periodically creates a monstrous,
red-brown flower with the perfume of rotten flesh.
(SFC, 1/19/04, p.A4)
1822 Albanian leader Ali Pasha of
Tepelena was assassinated by Ottoman agents for promoting autonomy.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1822 In London a bronze Achilles
cast from cannons from the Napoleonic wars was unveiled at the
residence of the Duke of Wellington. A strategic fig leaf was soon
added.
(SFEM, 3/21/99, p.24)
1822 Gebruder Heubach (Heubach
Brothers) began a porcelain manufacturing operation in Lichte,
Thuringia, Germany. The firm became known for manufacturing doll heads
and in 2005 was still in operation as Lichte Porcelain.
(SFC, 10/5/05, p.G3)
1822 There was a massacre of
Greeks on the island of Chios. The event was later depicted in a
painting by Delacroix.
(WSJ, 9/17/01, p.A20)
1822 In Mexico the mission of St.
Gertrude the Great on the Baha Peninsula was closed as the local
population diminished.
(WSJ, 12/26/97, p.A9)
1822 In New Zealand Welshman John
Grono named Milford Sound, South Island, after his home, Milford Haven.
It was later named a UN protected World Heritage Site.
(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.C5)
1822-1825 Luis Antonio Arguello, son of Jose Dario,
was the first native-born governor of Alta California.
(SFEC, 9/21/97, p.C7)
1822-1831 Pedro I ruled Brazil.
(EWH, 4th ed., p.854)
1822-1884 Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist monk,
established basic principles of heredity.
(V.D.-H.K.p.329-330)
1822-1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic.
His books included "Culture and Anarchy." His best known poem is Dover
Beach." In 1999 Ian Hamilton wrote "A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life
of Matthew Arnold."
(WSJ, 3/25/99, p.A24)
1822-1889 The period of the Brazilian monarchy.
(Hem, 8/96, p.68)
1822-1890 Cesar Auguste Franck, French composer born
in Belgium. His work included "Piece Heroique."
(WUD, 1994, p.563)(SFC, 8/13/96, p.B2)
1822-1895 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and
bacteriologist, was born on Dec. 27.
(CFA, ‘96, p.60)(WUD, 1994, p.1055)
1822-1900 Edward John Phelps, American lawyer and
diplomat: "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."
(AP, 8/9/97)
1822-1904 Some 23,000 immigrants, mostly from the US,
arrived in Liberia.
(NG, Feb, 04)
1823 Jan 15, Matthew Brady, Civil
War photographer, was born.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1823 Jan 27,
Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, French composer (Symphonie Espagnole),
was born.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1823 Jan 27, Pres. Monroe
appointed 1st US ambassadors to South America.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1823 Feb 2, Rossini's opera
"Semiramide" premiered in Venice.
(MC, 2/2/02)
1823 Feb 16, John Daniel Imboden
(d.1895), Brig General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1823 Feb 27, William Buel Franklin
(d.1903), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1823 Feb 28, Ernst Renan, French
philosopher, historian, scholar of religion, was born.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1823 Mar 3, Guyla Andrássy
Sr., premier of Hungary (1867-71), was born.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1823 Mar 23, Schuyler Colfax, (R)
17th US Vice President (1869-73), was born.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1823 Mar 25, Coelestin Jungbauer
(75), composer, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1823 Apr 1, Simon Bolivar Buckner
(d.1914), Lt. Gen. (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1823 Apr 3, William Macy "Boss"
Tweed, New York City political boss, was born.
(HN, 4/3/98)
1823 Apr 4, Karl Wilhelm Siemens,
inventor (laid undersea cables), was born.
(MC, 4/4/02)
1823 Apr 22, R.J. Tyers patented
roller skates.
(MC, 4/22/02)
1823 May 5, James Allen Hardie
(d.1876), Bvt Major General (Union Army), was born.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1823 May 8, "Home Sweet Home" was
1st sung in London.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1823 May 10, The 1st steamboat to
navigate the Mississippi River arrived at Ft. Snelling (between St.
Paul and Minneapolis).
(MC, 5/10/02)
1823 May 15, Antonio Frantisek
Becvarovsky (69), composer, died.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1823 Jun 11, Major General James
L. Kemper, Confederate hero, was born. He fought at the battles of
Williamsburg and Gettysburg.
(HN, 6/11/99)
1823 Jul 1, The United Provinces
of Central America (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and San
Salvador) gained independence from Mexico. The union dissolved by 1840.
(PC, 1992, p.393)(ON, 12/99, p.5)
1823 Sep 10, Simon Bolivar was
named president of Peru and assumed the presidency with dictatorial
powers. He had led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela,
Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
(MC, 9/10/01)
1823 Sep 21, The Angel Moroni 1st
appeared to Joseph Smith (b.1823), according to Smith (founder of
Mormon Church). Smith in New York claimed that an angel named Moroni
led him to ancient golden plates that revealed the untold story of
America during biblical times.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-1,6)(MC, 9/21/01)
1823 Oct 5, Carl Maria von Weber
visited Beethoven.
(MC, 10/5/01)
1823 Oct 12, Charles Macintosh of
Scotland began selling raincoats (Macs).
(MC, 10/12/01)
1823 Dec 2, President Monroe,
replying to the 1816 pronouncements of the Holy Alliance, proclaimed
the principles known as the Monroe Doctrine, "that the American
continents, by the free and independent condition which they have
assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects
for future colonization by European powers." His doctrine opposing
European expansion in the Western Hemisphere insured that American
influence in the Western hemisphere remain unquestioned.
(V.D.-H.K.p.232)(AP, 12/2/97)(HN, 12/2/98)
1823 Dec 7, Leopold Kronecker,
German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker), was born.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1823 Dec 19, Georgia passed the
1st US state birth registration law.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1823 Dec 20, Franz Schubert's
"Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1823 Dec 23, The poem: “A Visit
from St. Nicholas,” was published. The poem was first published
anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel, and was reprinted
frequently thereafter with no name attached. Authorship was later
attributed to Clement Clarke Moore and the poem was included in an
anthology of his works. His connection with the verses has been
questioned by some. Recent scholarship reveals the original to have
been written by Major Henry Livingston (1748-1828). The segment of the
poem referring to reindeer reads: Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now!
Prancer, and Vixen, On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem.
Rudolph was added following the publication of Robert L. May's
Christmas story in 1939.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas)(AP,
12/23/97)(AH, 2/05, p.18)
1823 Alfred Russel Wallace
(d.1913), naturalist, was born. He developed the theory of evolution by
natural selection at the same time as did Charles Darwin.
(NH, 2/02, p.74)
1823 Raphaelle Peale painted
"After the Bath." The artist was a hopeless lush and one of the
subtlest still-life painters who ever lived. On display at the Nelson
Art Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
(T&L, 10/1980, p.67)
1823 Johann Anton Ramboux, German
artist, created "Merenda in the Farnesi Gardens in Rome" in pen and
brown ink over pencil.
(WSJ, 7/16/98, p.A16)
1823 Franz Schubert composed his
song cycle "Die Schöne Müllerin." He also became gravely ill
with syphilis in this year.
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A16)
1823 The Reverend Hiram Bingham,
leader of a group of New England Calvinist missionaries, began
translating the Bible into Hawaiian. The project took 16 years.
(Wired, 8/95, p.90)
1823 Mission San Francisco de
Solano de Sonoma was established by Father Jose Altimira. It was to be
the last of the 21 California missions set up to convert the native
Indians and develop the local resources. The native Indians were of the
Nappa tribe, hence the name of the Napa Valley. Spanish explorer
Francisco Castro accompanied Father Altimira and they planted the first
grapevines.
(WCG, p.58)(INV, 7/95, p.12)(SFC, 7/14/00, WBb, p.8)
1823 The city of Ypsilanti, Mich.,
was initially named Woodruff's Grove and was founded by pioneers in
1823. It was re-named Ypsilanti in honor of a Greek war hero, Demetrius
Ypsilanti. The railroad came to the city in 1838, and it became a major
stopping point for travelers between Detroit and the west. The Michigan
State Normal School, now Eastern Michigan University, was founded here
in 1849.
(www.ypsilanti.org/welcome.html)
1823 In New Orleans Louis Joseph
Dufilho Jr. established a pharmacy and was the first licensed
pharmacist in the US. The building later became The Pharmacy Museum.
(SFEM, 6/14/98, p.24)
1823 John Rankin, Presbyterian
minister, moved to Ripley, Ohio, and soon established the Ripley Line
of the underground railroad. In 2003 Ann Hagedorn authored "Beyond the
River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad." In
2005 Fergus M. Bordewich authored “Bound for Canaan,” a look at the
people involved in the UR operations.
(WSJ, 1/30/03, p.D8)(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.D6)
1823 Philip Cazenova founded a
British banking firm partnership. It incorporated in 2001.
(Econ, 11/13/04, p.82)
1823 Lord Byron returned to Greece
to provide moral support to insurgents and draw attention to Ottoman
massacres of Greek civilians.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron)(SFC,
9/7/08, Books p.5)
1823 Steam powered shipping began
on Lake Geneva between Switzerland and France.
(SFEC, 7/19/98, p.T3)
1823 The first New England
missionaries arrived on Maui.
(http://olowalu.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=ig.page&PageID=70)
1823 The Momotomba volcano, 18
miles from Managua and on the northwest shore of Lake Nicaragua, went
dormant. In the 17th cent. it had destroyed the capital of Leon.
(SFC, 4/13/96, p.A-15)
1823 Poet Lord Byron spent a
summer on the Ionian island of Cephalonia.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, p.T3)
1823 In Brazil homosexual acts
were decriminalized.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A10)
1823 British Major Dixon Denham
and Captain Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) entered Northern Nigeria from
the north, crossing the desert from Tripoli.
(Econ, 1/7/06, p.74)(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Clapperton)
1823 A fire in Rome destroyed a
basilica, said to have been built over the burial site of St. Paul.
This basilica had been built by Theodosius over an older church built
over the burial site. A new St. Paul Outside the Walls basilica
was built over the site. In 2006 a sarcophagus was uncovered that dated
to at least 390BC.
(AP, 12/6/06)
1923 In Nha Trang, Vietnam, a
retreat was built for Bao Dai, the last Vietnamese king. It later
became the Bao Dai Villas Hotel.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, p.T5)
1823-1871 Charles Buxton, English author: "You will
never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
(AP, 10/21/99)
1823-1890 William Kitchen Parker, English anatomist
and embryologist. See [1883].
(NH, 10/96, p.37)
1823-1896 Coventry Patmore, English poet: "Nearly
all our disasters come from a few fools having the ‘courage of their
convictions."’
(AP, 3/16/98)
1823-1900 F. Max Mueller, German philologist: "To
think is to speak low. To speak is to think aloud."
(AP, 10/14/97)
1823-1911 Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American
clergyman-author: "To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home
even in his own country."
(AP, 4/6/97)
1824 Jan 1, The Camp Street
Theatre opened as the first English-language playhouse in New Orleans.
(HN, 1/1/99)
1824 Jan 8, William Wilkie
Collins, English novelist (Woman in White), was born.
(www.qub.ac.uk/en/imperial/india/wilkie-background.htm)
1824 Jan 8, Tom Spring defeated
Jack Langan in a British championship boxing match that lasted
2½ hours.
(SFC, 2/1/06,
p.G6)(www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/spring-t.htm)
1824 Jan 21, Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson, Confederate General, was born.
(HN, 1/21/99)
1824 Jan 22, A British force was
wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast.
This was the first defeat for a colonial power.
(HN, 1/22/99)
1824 Jan 26, Edward Jenner,
discoverer of vaccination, died.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1824 Feb 4, J.W. Goodrich
introduced rubber galoshes to public.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1824 Feb 9, Anna Katharina
Emmerick (b.1774), a sickly, virtually illiterate German nun, died. Her
gory visions of Jesus' last hours of suffering before his crucifixion
drew pilgrims to her bedside in the years before her death. In 2004 she
was beatified by Pope John Paul VI.
(AP, 10/3/04)(www.vatican.va/news_services)
1824 Feb 10, Simon Bolivar was
named President by the Congress of Peru.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1824 Feb 14, Winfield Scott
Hancock (d.1886), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 2/14/02)
1824 Feb 23, Lewis Cass Hunt
(d.1886), Brig General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1824 Feb 28, Charles Blondin,
tightrope walker, was born.
(HN, 2/28/01)
1824 Mar 2, Bedrich Friedrich
Smetana (1884), Czech, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau), was
born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1345)(WSJ, 10/4/96, p.A7)(SC, 3/2/02)
1824 Mar 2, In the Supreme Court
case of Gibbons v Ogden held that the power to regulate interstate
commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the
Constitution. The Court found that New York's licensing requirement for
out-of-state operators was inconsistent with a congressional act
regulating the coasting trade. Gibbons had hired Cornelius Vanderbilt
as captain of his boat, which operated under a federal license.
(http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761595569/gibbons_v_ogden.html)(Econ,
4/18/09, p.90)
1824 Mar 5, Elisha Harris, U.S.
physician, founder of the American Public Health Association, was born.
(HN, 3/5/98)
1824 Mar 5, James Merritt Ives,
lithographer for Currier and Ives, was born.
(HN, 3/5/98)
1824 Mar 7, Meyerbeer's opera "Il
Crociati in Egitto," premiered in Venice.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1824 Mar 9, Leland Stanford,
railroad builder and founder of Stanford University, was born in what
was then Watervliet, New York (later the town of Colonie).
(HN,
3/9/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford)
1824 Mar 11, The U.S. War
Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A lifelong friend and
trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker rose to the top in two
worlds, that of his native Seneca Indian tribe and the white man’s
world at large. He went on to become the first Indian to lead the
Bureau.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1824 Mar 12, Gustav Robert
Kirchoff, physicist, was born in Prussia.
(HN, 3/12/98)(MC, 3/12/02)
1824 Mar 26, 1st performance of
Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis."
(SS, 3/26/02)
1824 Apr 17, Russia abandoned all
North American claims south of 54’ 40’.
(HN, 4/17/98)
1824 Apr 19, George Gordon, (6th
Baron Byron, b.1788) aka Lord Byron, English poet, died of malaria in
Greece at Missolonghi on the gulf of Patras preparing to fight for
Greek independence. In 1999 Benita Eisler published the biography
"Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame." In 2002 Fiona MacCarthy
authored "Byron : Life and Legend." In 2009 Edna O’Brien authored
“Byron in Love.”
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.D3)(WSJ, 4/26/99, p.A16)(HN,
4/1901)(SSFC, 12/29/02, p.M2)(SSFC, 6/21/09, Books p.J5)
1824 Apr 27, William Richard
Bexfield, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/27/02)
1824 May 7, The Ninth Symphony by
Beethoven had its premiere. The "Ode to Joy" lyric was originally
written by Friedrich von Schiller as the "Ode to Freedom."
(LGC, 1970, p.98)(WSJ, 12/10/01, p.A16)
1824 May 8, William Walker,
president of Nicaragua, was born.
(HN, 5/8/98)
1824 May 16, Edmund Kirby-Smith,
educator and soldier, was born. He was a Confederate general in the
western theater.
(HN, 5/16/99)
1824 May 29, Cadmus Marcellus
Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1824 Jun 8, A washing machine was
patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
(MC, 6/8/02)
1824 Jun 10, Caesar Augustus
Rodney (v.1772), US Attorney General (1807-1811) and nephew of US Judge
Caesar Rodney (1728-1784), died in Buenos Aires. He served as a US
Senator from Delaware (1822-1823).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_A._Rodney)
1824 Jun 16, The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed at Old Slaughter’s Coffee
House in London under the direction of Arthur Broome.
(www.animallaw.info/historical/articles/arukrspcahist.htm)
1824 Jul 20, Alexander
Schimmelfennig, Brig. General Union volunteers, was born in Prussia.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1824 Jul 20, Marc Brunel (55) was
appointed as engineer for the Thames Tunnel Company. He hired his son,
Isambard Brunel, as his assistant. Brunel senior, a royalist, had fled
the French Revolution to become, briefly, official engineer to the city
of New York, and then, having settled in London, a consultant engineer
to the Royal Navy. Educated and trained in both French and English
schools and workshops, Brunel junior served his practical
apprenticeship assisting his father in the building of the first tunnel
under the Thames, which later carried the Underground between Wapping
and Rotherhithe.
(HN,
6/26/01)(www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/specialcollections/brunelchronology.html)
1824 Jul 27, Alexandre Dumas fils,
French playwright, novelist (Camille), was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1824 Jul 30, Gioacchino Rossini
became manager of Theatre Italian in Paris.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1824 Jul, The Richmond [Virginia]
Light Artillery changed its name to the Richmond Fayette Artillery in
honor of the Marquis de La Fayette.
(RC handout, 5/27/96)
1824 Aug 15, General Lafayette
returned to the US under an invitation from Pres. Monroe. Political
ribbons were printed in for the 1st time in large quantities to
celebrate his US tour.
(http://friendsoflafayette.org/data/timeline.html)
1824 Aug 15, Freed American slaves
formed the country of Liberia.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1824 Aug 24, Simon Bolivar's army
beat the Spanish in Peru in the Battle at Junin.
(PC, 1992, p.394)
1824 Sep 4, Anton Bruckner,
composer and Wagner disciple, was born in Austria.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1824 Sep 23, Captain Richard
Charlton was appointed British Consul to Hawaii. He arrived in
Hawaii and assumed his post in April, 1825.
(Hawaii state archives)
1824 Oct 4, Mexico became a
republic. A liberal constitution, established at this time, was later
replaced by Santa Anna.
(MC, 10/4/01)
1824 Oct 21, Joseph Aspdin
patented Portland cement in Yorkshire, England.
(MC, 10/21/01)
1824 Oct 22, The Tennessee
Legislature adjourned ending Davy Crockett’s state political career.
Crockett died at the legendary siege of the Alamo in 1836.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1824 Oct 23, The 1st steam
locomotive was introduced.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1824 Nov 2, Popular presidential
vote was 1st recorded; Jackson beat J.Q. Adams. Gen. Jackson won the
popular vote followed by John Quincy Adams, William Crawford and Henry
Clay. Jackson won 99 electoral votes, Adams won 84, Crawford won 41 and
Clay won 37. Crawford, Treasury secretary, was accused of malfeasance.
Henry Clay was denounced for passing days gambling and nights in a
brothel. Clay convinced his supporters in congress to vote for Adams.
The House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams, who chose Clay
for vice president. A furious Jackson proceeded to help found the
Democratic Party.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A22)(WSJ, 11/9/00, p.A26)(WSJ,
12/11/00, p.A18)(MC, 11/2/01)
1824 Nov 5, Stephen Van Rensselaer
established the Rensselaer School with a letter to Rev. Dr. Samuel
Blatchford, in which he asked him to serve as the first president. The
first engineering college in the U.S., Rensselaer School, opened in
Troy, New York, on Jan 3, 1825. It later became known as Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute)(WSJ,
6/2/06, p.79)
1824 Nov 16, NY City's Fifth
Avenue opened for business.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1824 Nov 18, Franz Sigel (d.1902),
Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1824 Dec 1, The presidential
election was turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a
deadlock developed among John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H.
Crawford and Henry Clay with Jackson 32 votes shy of a majority. John
Quincy Adams ended up the winner. He was reportedly the only
bald-headed president.
(AP, 12/1/97)(WSJ, 12/31/97, p.A11)(SFEC, 11/1/98,
Z1p.10)
1824 Dec 9, In the Battle of
Ayacucho (Candorcangui) Peru defeated Spain.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1824 Dec 22, Chiefess
Kapiolani, a Christian, defied Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, and
lived. Tennyson's eponymous poem celebrated the event.
(www.aracnet.com/~sbvoices/days_dec.html)
1824 John Hayter painted portraits
of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu in London shortly
before they died there of measles.
(AH, 10/01, p.14)
1824 Lydia Maria Child of Wayland,
Mass., authored "Hobomok," a novel of a Puritan girl who falls in love
with an Indian after her fiancée is lost at sea. She later
founded Juvenile Miscellany, the 1st children’s magazine in the US. She
later authored "The Frugal Housewife" and "An Appeal in Favor of That
Class of Americans Called Africans" (1833) and the poem: "The New
England’s Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day" (Over the river, and
through the woods…). In 1994 Carolyn Karcher authored her biography:
"The First Woman in the Republic."
(WSJ, 11/21/02, p.A1)
1824 James Morier authored “The
Adventures of Haji Bab of Ispahan,” the tale of a barber’s son who
seeks his fortunes in Persia.
(WSJ, 10/6/07, p.W8)
1824 Meyerbeer composed his opera
"Il Crociato in Egitto," with a part for the last of the great castrato
singers, Giovanni Batista Velluti.
(LGC-HCS, p.44)
1824 The Second Bank of the United
States, established by federal charter in 1791, was completed in
Philadelphia by William Strickland. It was modeled after the Parthenon.
From 1841-1934 it served as a Custom House. It was acquired by the
National Park Service in 1939 and in 1974 became the home of the Peale
portraits. The renovated museum reopened Dec 1, 2004.
(WSJ, 2/22/05, p.D10)
1824 Rafael Garcia led the defense
of Mission San Rafael against hostile Indians.
(SFC, 5/26/97, p.A11)
1824 Hens called Rhode Island Reds
were first bred in Little Compton, R.I. They lay brown eggs and gained
a regional preference.
(SFC, 5/26/96, Z 1 p.2)
1824 "Publish and be damned," was
exclaimed by the Duke of Wellington to Harrietta Wilson, a courtesan of
note, whose publisher went trolling amongst her former beaux, offering
exclusion from her memoirs for 200 hundred pounds sterling.
(WSJ, 2/3/95, p.A-11)
1824 Dean William Buckland of
Oxford Univ. discovered and described the bones of the meat-eating
Megalosaurus, "huge reptile."
(T.E.-J.B. p.24)
1824 William Moorcroft, East India
Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, arrived in Peshawar,
Afghanistan, while enroute to Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to trade for horses.
(ON, 1/02, p.3)
1824 The Ashanti tribe in West
Africa defeated the troops under Sir Charles MacCarthy. His polished
skull then became a prized feature of the annual yam festival.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-12)
1824 The first company to come out
with the paper milk carton was the Toronto East India Company, which
developed it in 1824 due to a glass shortage.
(www.milk.com/experiments/exper17.html)
1824 In England the first animal
welfare group was founded.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A20)
1824 The Royal National Lifeboat
Institution was established in England.
(Econ, 5/14/05, p.87)
1824 The Mexican governor of
California offered all missions for sale under a program of
secularization.
(SFEC, 3/12/00, p.T4)
1824 A Mexican General was served
chiles en nogada after he threw out the last Spanish viceroy. The dish
consisted of green chiles, pomegranate seeds and a white walnut sauce.
(WSJ, 12/11/98, p.A1)
1824 Newfoundland became a British
colony.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.6)
1824 The Saud family established a
new capital at Riyadh.
(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1824-1860 Yanagawa Shigenobu II, Japanese printmaker,
was active. His work included the color woodcut “Kuroho” (1832-1836).
(www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/shigenobu_ii_yanagawa.html)
1824-1868 Lesotho acted as a buffer between the
Afrikaner’s Boer Republic and British colonial interests and supplied
seasonal farm workers to both.
(WSJ, 3/25/98, p.A11)
1824-1877 Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist: "The
slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave
of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen
or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to
resent?"
(AP, 6/7/97)
1824-1879 William Morris Hunt, artist. His work
included an oil of Niagara Falls.
(WSJ, 11/6/98, p.W10)
1824-1887 Gustav Kirchoff, German physicist,
discovers that the reasons for the Fraunhoffer lines in light spectra
from the sun are due to absorption of specific wavelengths of energy by
elements in the gaseous chromosphere that resonate when impacted at
specific energy levels. The light emitted by the excited atoms will
then have characteristic markings such as the D-line of sodium.
(SCTS, p.34)
1824-1889 (William) Wilkie Collins, English novelist.
His work included the 1860 mystery: "The Woman in White." It was later
made into a TV version on both "Mystery" (1985) and "Masterpiece
Theater" (1998).
(WUD, 1994, p.290)(WSJ, 2/19/98, p.A20)
1824-1892 George William Curtis, American
author-editor "Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are
there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors,
it would sound like poetry."
(AP, 8/26/99)
1824-1907 William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Scottish
scientist-inventor, a leader in energetics. Along with Helmholtz he
helped establish the principle of the conservation of energy.
(TNG, Klein, p.88)
1825 Jan 1, Dr. Gideon Mantell
presented his paper “Notice on the Iguanodon” to members of England’s
Philosophical Society. His paper linked the large hypothetical “Sussex
lizard” to a modern species of reptile. This work led to his induction
to the Royal Society on Dec 25, 1825.
(ON, 7/06, p.3)
1825 Jan 3, Scottish factory owner
Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony
utopian community.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1825 Jan 25, Eli Whitney (b.1765),
cotton gin inventor and gun manufacturer, died.
(ON, 2/03, p.6)
1825 Jan 19, Ezra Daggett and
nephew Thomas Kensett received a patent from Pres. Monroe for food
storage in tin cans. [see 1810]
(www.foodreference.com/html/html/january19.html)
1825 Jan 27, Congress approved
Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced
relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
(HN, 1/27/99)
1825 Jan 28, George Edward Pickett
(d.1875), Major General in the Confederate Army, was born. When blame
was being sought for why his ill-fated charge was the final action of
the Battle of Gettysburg, and why the Confederacy did not win the
three-day battle, George Pickett suggested that "The Union Army might
have had something to do with it." Pickett had been sponsored for West
Point by the Illinois congressman, Abraham Lincoln.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1825 Feb 9, The House of
Representatives elected John Quincy Adams Jr. 6th U.S. president
(1825-1829) after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(AHD, 1971, p.14)(HN,
2/9/97)(AP, 2/9/99)
1825 Feb 12, Creek Indian treaty
signed. Tribal chiefs agreed to turn over all their land in Georgia to
the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1825 Feb 22, Russia and Britain
established the Alaska/Canada boundary.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1825 Feb 24, Thomas Bowdler,
self-appointed Shakespearean censor, died. His expurgated Shakespeare
edition was published in 1818.
(MC, 2/24/02)(SFC, 1/21/04, p.D2)
1825 Feb 25, William Moorcroft,
East India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, arrived at
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to trade for horses. He met with Khan Haydar, Emir
of Bukhara.
(ON, 1/02, p.5)
1825 Feb 28, Quincy Adams Gillmore
(d.1888), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1825 Mar 2, The 1st grand opera in
US sung in English was in NYC.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1825 Mar 4, John Quincy Adams was
inaugurated as 6th President.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1825 Mar 12, The English Sloop,
Eliza Ann, was captured by pirates, who proceeded to murder the crew of
ten.
(LSA., Fall 1995, p.18)
1825 Mar 25, The first Brazilian
Constitution was promulgated by Peter I and solemnly sworn in the
Cathedral of the Empire.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil)
1825 Apr 16, John Henry Fuseli
(aka Johan Heinrich Fussli b.1741), Swiss born British Romantic
painter, died. His paintings included “Nightmare” (1782).
(www.artnet.com/library/03/0302/T030268.asp)(Econ,
2/18/06, p.78)
1825 Apr 25, Charles Ferdinand
Dowd was born. He standardized time zones.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1825 May 1, George Inness, US
landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), was born.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1825 May 4, Thomas Henry Huxley
(d.1895), British biologist, naturalist and author, was born. "God give
me strength to face a fact though it slay me." "My experience of the
world is that things left to themselves don't get right." His work
includes the collected Essays in nine volumes: 1. Method and Results,
2. Darwiniana, 3. Science and Education, 4. Science and the Hebrew
Tradition, 5. Science and the Christian Tradition, 6. Hume, with Helps
to the Study of Berkeley, 7. Man’s Place in Nature, 8. Discourses,
Biological and Geological, 9. Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays. In
1997 Adrian Desmond wrote the biography: "Huxley." "God give me
strength to face a fact though it slay me."
(OAPOC-TH, p.71)(WSJ, 10/10/97, p.A20)(AP,
11/1/97)(AP, 1/26/99)(HN, 5/4/01)
1825 May 7, Italian composer
Antonio Salieri (74) died in Vienna, Austria.
(AP, 5/7/97)(MC, 5/7/02)
1825 May 20, Charles X became King
of France.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1825 May 25, American Unitarian
Association was founded.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1825 May 29, David Bell Birney
(d.1864), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1825 Jun 7, R.D. Blackmore, author
(Norie), was born.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1825 Jun 19, Gioacchino Rossini's
"Il Viaggio a Reims," premiered. Rossini wrote the "IL Viaggio a Reims"
opera to celebrate the coronation of Charles X. The libretto by Luigi
Balocchi was intended to show all major European nationalities coming
together to celebrate the event.
(WSJ, 9/29/99, p.A20)(MC, 6/19/02)
1825 Jun 20, Coronation of French
king Charles X, the surviving brother of guillotined Louis XVI.
(MC, 6/20/02)
1825 Jul 16, Alexander Gordon
Laing (32), British Army Major, set off on camel from Tripoli in an
attempt to become the 1st European to cross the Sahara Desert and reach
the fabled city of Timbuktu (Mali).
(SSFC, 1/1/06, p.M2)(ON, 11/06, p.5)
1825 Aug 1, William Beaumont, a US
Army assistant surgeon at Fort Mackinac in the Michigan territory,
began experiments to study the digestive system of Alexis St. Martin, a
fur trader who was accidentally shot in the abdomen in 1822.
(ON, 1/02, p.6)
1825 Aug 6, Simon Bolivar drew up
a constitution for Bolivia in which a life president appointed his
successor. Sucre served as the sole capital until losing a brief civil
war to La Paz in 1899. Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of
Bolivia.
(Econ, 7/1/06, p.77)(AP, 7/21/07)(AP, 8/6/08)
1825 Sep 7, The Marquis de
Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to
President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1825 Aug 25, Uruguay declared its
independence from Brazil.
(AP, 8/25/97)
1825 Aug 27, William Moorcroft,
East India Co. head of 5,000 acre horse farm at Pusa, India, died near
Balkh, Afghanistan, while returning to India following his trip to
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to trade for horses. In 1985 Garry Alder authored
"Beyond Bukhara: The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and
Veterinary Surgeon."
(ON, 1/02, p.6)
1825 Sep 27, The Stockton and
Darlington rail line opened in England. The first locomotive to haul a
passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England. The
British engineers Richard Trevithick and George Stevenson were the
first innovators of the technology.
(AP,
9/27/97)(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm)
1825 Oct 9, The first Norwegian
immigrants to America arrived on the sloop Restaurationen.
(HN, 10/9/98)
1825 Oct 16, Thomas Turpin
Crittenden (d.1905), Brig. Gen. (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1825 Oct 17, Franz Liszt's
operetta Don Sanche premiered in Paris
(MC, 10/17/01)
1825 Oct 25, Johann Strauss
(d.1899), Austrian orchestra conductor and composer, was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1405)(HN, 10/25/98)
1825 Oct 26, The Erie Canal was
opened in upstate New York. It cut through 363 miles of wilderness and
measured 40 feet wide and 4 feet deep. It had 18 aqueducts and 83 locks
and rose 568 feet from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. The first boat on
the Erie Canal left Buffalo, N.Y. after eight years of construction. At
the request of New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, the New York state
legislature had provided $7 million to finance the project. The canal
facilitated trade between New York City and the Midwest--manufactured
goods were shipped out of New York and agricultural products were
returned from the Midwest. As the canal became vital to trade, New York
City flourished and settlers rapidly moved into the Midwest and founded
towns like Clinton, Illinois. [see 1826] Gov. Clinton rode the Seneca
Chief canal boat from Buffalo to New York harbor for the inauguration.
In 2004 Peter L. Bernstein authored “Wedding of the Waters: The Erie
Canal and the Making of a Great Nation.” In 2009 Gerard Koeppel
authored “Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American
Empire.”
(SFEC, 4/20/97, p.T10)(AP, 10/26/97)(HN,
10/26/98)(WSJ, 2/8/00, p.A24)(WSJ, 1/14/05, p.W6)(Econ, 2/28/09, p.89)
1825 Nov 9, Ambrose Powell Hill
(d.1865), Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), was born.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1825 Nov 26, The first college
social fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, was formed at Union College
in Schenectady, N.Y.
(AP, 11/26/97)(HN, 11/26/98)
1825 Nov 29, 1st Italian opera in
US, "Barber of Seville," premiered in NYC and was welcomed by the
legendary librettist for Mozart (and friend of Casanova), Lorenzo
DaPonte, who was Professor of Italian at King's (later Columbia)
College.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1825 Dec 27, The 1st public
railroad using steam locomotive was completed in England.
(MC, 12/27/01)
1825 Dec 28, US General James
Wilkinson (b.1757) died in Mexico City. He was generally regarded as an
American patriot, but historians in the 1850s found evidence that he
had worked as a spy on behalf of Spanish officials while serving as
governor of the Louisiana Territory (1805-1806).
(ON, 12/08,
p.7)(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-382718.html)
1825 Dec 29, Giuseppe Maria
Gioacchino Cambini, composer, died.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1825 Dec 29, Jacques-Louis David
(b.1748), French painter (Death of Marat), died.
(WUD, 1994 p.369)(MC, 12/29/01)
1825 Camille Corot created his
painting "View of Rome."
(WSJ, 9/9/03, p.D6)
1825 Goya (79) made his 4
lithographs known as the "Bulls of Bordeaux."
(WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A20)
1825 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(1755-1826), French lawyer and professor, invented the genre of food
writing with his book “The Physiology of Taste.”
(WSJ, 5/5/07, p.P10)
1825 Beethoven composed his String
Quartet No. 15 in A Minor.
(http://www.karadar.net/Cataloghi/beethoven.html)
1825 The Marquis de Lafayette laid
the cornerstone for the Monument at Bunker Hill in a ceremony addressed
by Daniel Webster.
(HT, 3/97, p.33)
1825 Sing Sing Prison opened on
the banks of the Hudson River. The name was from the local Sint Sinct
Indian tribe. [see 1901]
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.A1)
1825 Franciscan missionaries
planted vineyards north of San Francisco to make sacramental wine.
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.CA1)
1825 Philadelphia druggist Elie
Magliore Durand first touted the effervescent soda water as a health
drink. Shortly afterward, New York inventor John Matthews originated
the fountain apparatus that conveniently rested on a pharmacist’s
counter to dispense carbonated drinks.
(HNQ, 6/12/98)
1825 The US government launched a
mapping and surveying expedition of the Sant Fe Trail. The notes ended
up filed for decades. In 2000 David Dary authored "The Santa Fe Trail:
Its History, Legends and Lore."
(WSJ, 12/28/00, p.A9)
1825 The US experienced a
financial panic.
(Panic, p.6)
1825 The Bureau of Indian Affairs
began as an office of the War Department that dealt with what white
Americans saw as the "Indian problem."
(SFC, 9/9/00, p.A3)
1825 A law that defined and set
punishment for abortion was placed into the Missouri penal code. It was
the 2nd US abortion law after a 1821 law in Connecticut. The law
prohibited only abortions induced by poisoning.
(SFEM, 2/1/98, p.13)
1825 The element aluminium was
discovered.
(NH, 7/02, p.35)
1825 William Sturgeon, English
inventor, found that an electric current flowing through a coil of wire
created a magnet. Shortly thereafter, the American physicist Joseph
Henry discovered that placing an iron core inside the wire coil
strengthened the effect- permitting this electromagnet to lift and drop
small iron objects at the closing and opening of a switch connecting
the coil to a storage battery.
(I&I, Penzias, p.96)
1825 The Miramichi fires burned
some 3 million acres in Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.
(SFC, 10/30/03, p.A15)
1825 Parson Weems, writer, died.
His work included "Life of George Washington With Curious Anecdotes,
equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to his Young Countrymen."
(SFEC, 7/12/98, Par p.13)
1825 In Egypt British traveler and
draftsman James Burton sketched tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs in
the Valley of the Kings.
(NG, 9/98, p.7)
1825 A French emissary of Charles
X demanded that Haiti pay 150 million gold francs in exchange for
recognition as French warships cruised over the horizon. The deal
required 5 annual payments of 30 million and required a loan from a
French bank for the 1st payment. Haiti renegotiated the debt in 1838.
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.A1)
1825 France established its
imperial paramilitary, the Gendarmerie Coloniale, for law enforcement
across its colonial empire.
(WSJ, 2/2/04, p.A12)
1825 The impresario of La Scala in
Milan, Italy, sold the theater’s library of manuscript opera scores to
the young copyist Giovannin Ricordi. This initiated the rise of
Ricordi’s music-publ. firm.
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.84)
1825 Japan issued an edict that
spelled out what would happen to uninvited guests. “Should any
foreigners land anywhere, they must be arrested or killed.”
(Econ, 12/22/07, p.63)
1825 A disastrous breach of Dutch
coastal defenses occurred.
(www.metoffice.com/education/secondary/students/flood.html)
1825 The Decembrists consisted of
idealistic military officers who plotted unsuccessfully against the
Russian tsar.
(Econ, 5/21/05, p.27)
1825-1829 John Quincy Adams served as the 6th
president of the US.
(WSJ, 10/22/97, p.A20)
1825-1832 Lambert Hitchcock marked all his furniture
with the insignia "L. Hitchcock."
(SFC, 6/12/96, Z1 p.5)
1825-1833 Scottish botanist and gardener, David
Douglas, visited the US Pacific Coast and sent a collection of poppies
to the London Horticultural Society, where the species was successfully
cultivated. [see 1792,1794, 1816]
(NBJ, 2/96, p.12)
1825-1852 Master Juba was a free black man and the
first recognized master of tap dancing.
(WSJ, 4/21/98, p.A21)
1825-1858 The Suffolk Bank operated a clearing house
in Boston that served the New England region, and required all country
banks doing business in Boston to maintain clearing deposits.
(WSJ, 2/5/98, p.A23)
1825-1859 An ongoing project under Frederick
Burkhardt has undertaken the task of editing and publishing the letters
of Charles Darwin of this period. The first of 30 volumes came out in
1985 published by Cambridge Univ. Press, and the 10th in 1996. Selected
letters over this period from the first 7 volumes have been published
as "Charles Darwin’s Letters: A Selection 1825-1859."
(NH, 5/96, p.6)
1825-1888 Sandwich glass, also known as pressed
glass, was made by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Works in Sandwich,
Mass. They made the original dolphin-based glassware.
(SFC, 7/9/97, Z1 p.3)
1825-1893 Jean Martin Charcot, hypnotist. He taught
Sigmund Freud and influenced Freud’s theories of the subconscious.
(WSJ, 5/30/00, p.A24)
1825-1997 The 1997 book, "The American Opera Singer"
by Peter G. Davis, covers the lives and adventures of opera and concert
singers over this period.
(WSJ, 11/6/97, p.A20)
1826 Jan 26, Julia Dent Grant,
First Lady and wife of Ulysses Grant, was born.
(HN, 1/26/99)
1826 Feb 2, Jean Anthelme
Brillat-Savarin (b.1755), French lawyer and epicure, died. “Tell me
what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” His famous work,
Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), was published in
December 1825, two months before his death.
(WSJ, 7/19/08,
p.W1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillat-Savarin)
1826 Feb 11, London University was
founded.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1826 Feb 13, The American
Temperance Society formed in Boston.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1826 Feb 16, Franz von Holstein,
composer, was born.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1826 Mar 4, The Granite Railway in
Quincy, MA, became the 1st US RR to be chartered.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1826 Mar 21, Beethoven's Quartet
#13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 3/21/02)
1826 Apr 1, Samuel Mory
patented the internal combustion engine.
(OTD)
1826 Apr 6, Gustave Moreau, French
painter, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1826 Apr 9, Chatham Roberdeau
Wheat was born in Alexandria, Va. He studied law at the University of
Nashville and then served in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry as a lieutenant
during the Mexican War. He became a Confederate commander of the 1st
Louisiana Special Battalion in the Civil War, also known as Wheat's
Tigers.
(HN, 4/9/00)
1826 Apr 12, Karl Maria von
Weber's opera "Oberon," premiered in London.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1826 Apr 13, Franz Danzi (62),
composer, died.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1826 Apr 22, Ibrahim, son of
Mohammed Ali of Egypt, took Missolonghi (in West Greece) after a long
siege. [see Apr 23]
(CMW, 1968, p.154)
1826 Apr 23, Missolonghi (in west
Greece) fell to Egyptian-Turkish forces. [see Apr 22]
(HN, 4/23/99)(MC, 4/23/02)
1826 Apr 28, Alexander Stadtfeld,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1826 May 4, Frederick Church, US
romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), was born.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1826 May 7, Varina Howell Davis
(d.1905), 1st lady (Confederacy), was born.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1826 May 10, Giuseppe Sigismondo
(86), composer, died.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1826 May 25, Christian Friedrich
Ruppe (72), composer, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1826 May 29, Ebenezer Butterick,
inventor (tissue paper dress pattern), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1826 Jun 4, Karl Maria FE von
Weber (39), German composer (Oberon), died.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1826 Jul 4, Stephen Foster
(Stephen Collins Foster, d. Jan 13, 1864) composer, was born near
Pittsburgh. His famous songs include "My Old Kentucky Home," "O
Susanna," "Old Folks at Home," "Old Black Joe" and "Camptown Races."
(HFA, ‘96, p.22)(AHD, p. 519)(BAAC PN, Chambers,
1/8/96)(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1826 Jul 4, Construction of the
Pennsylvania Grand Canal was begun.
(WSJ, 7/3/96, p.A8)
1826 Jul 4, Thomas Jefferson, the
nation's third president, died at age 83 at one o'clock in the
afternoon and was buried near Charlottesville, Virginia. He was the
founder of the Univ. of Virginia and wrote the state’s statute of
religious freedom. In 1981 Dumas Malone, aged 89 and nearly blind,
published "The Sage of Monticello," the sixth and final volume of his
Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Jefferson. In 1997 Joseph J. Ellis
won the National Book Award in nonfiction for "American Sphinx: The
Character of Thomas Jefferson." "Nothing gives one person so much of an
advantage over another as to remain unruffled in all circumstances."
(A&IP, Miers, p.29)(SFEC, 6/29/97, BR p.5)(AP,
7/4/97)(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A6)(SFEC, 10/25/98, Z1 p.12)(IB, Internet,
12/7/98)
1826 Jul 4, John Adams died at age
90 in Braintree [Quincy], Mass, just a few hours after Jefferson.
Because communications was slow in those days, Adams and Jefferson, at
their death, thought the other was still alive. Adams' last words were,
"Thomas Jefferson still survives." It was 50 years to the day after the
Declaration of Independence was adopted. Adams was the 2nd president of
the US. A multi-generational biography of the Adams family was later
written by Paul C. Nagel: "Descent from Glory." The Joseph Ellis book
The Passionate Edge" helped restore Adams to his rightful place in the
American pantheon. The 1972 musical film 1776 focused on Adams’ efforts
to get an independence resolution through Congress. In 1998 C. Bradley
Thompson published "John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty." In 2001
David McCullough authored "John Adams." In 2005 James Grant authored
“John Adams: Party of One.”
(A&IP, p.29)(AP, 7/4/97)(SFC, 7/4/98, p.E4)(IB,
Internet, 12/7/98)(WSJ, 12/22/98, p.A16)(WSJ, 5/30/01, p.A20)(WSJ,
3/24/05, p.D8)
1826 Jul 4, In 2001 Andrew
Burstein authored "America’s Jubilee," a description of the jubilee
year as it was experienced by various people.
(WSJ, 1/23/00, p.A20)
1826 Jul 8, Luther Martin
(b.1748), Maryland lawyer and former delegate to the Constitutional
Convention, died in NYC. In 2008 Bill Kaufman authored “Forgotten
Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin.”
(WSJ, 9/20/08,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Martin)
1826 Jul 22, Giuseppe Piazzi (80),
monk, mathematician (found 1st asteroid, 1801), died.
(MC, 7/22/02)
1826 Jul 26, Riots in Vilnius,
Lithuanian, caused the death of many Jews.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1826 Aug 7, Marc Brunel hired his
son, Isambard, to replace William Armstrong as chief engineer for
building the tunnel under England’s Thames River.
(ON, 4/06,
p.8)(www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/specialcollections/brunelchronology.html)
1826 Aug 13, Major Gordon Laing,
Scottish explorer, became the 1st European to enter Timbuktu (Mali),
where some 12,000 people lived. Laing was killed by a Tuareg nomad
spear on Sep 26 as he headed for Morocco. In 2005 Frank T. Kryza
authored “The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold.”
(SSFC, 4/11/04, p.D6)(SSFC, 1/1/06, p.M2)(Econ,
1/7/06, p.75)(ON, 11/06, p.6)
1826 Aug
22, Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith moved near Salt Lake Utah.
(http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-112/summary/index.asp)
1826 Sep 3, USS Vincennes left NY
to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1826 Sep 26, The Persian cavalry
was routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian
Caucasus.
(HN, 9/26/99)
1826 Oct 7, The first railway in
the United States opened at Quincy, Massachusetts.
(HN, 10/7/98)
1826 Nov 24, Carlo Collodi, the
creator of Pinocchio, was born.
(HN, 11/24/00)
1826 Nov 27, Jedediah Smith’s
expedition reached San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the
south-western part of the continent. He crossed the Mohave Desert and
the San Bernadino Mountains from Utah.
(HN, 11/27/98)(SFEC, 12/5/99, p.T5)
1826 Dec 3, George Brinton
McClellen (d.1885), Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at
Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president, was born.
(HN, 12/3/98)(MC, 12/3/01)
1826 Dec 26, Franz Coenen,
composer, was born.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1826 Theophile Bra, French
academic sculptor, experienced a nervous breakdown and began to make
visionary paintings.
(SFEM, 11/1/98, p.)
1826 Corot painted "Cascade of
Terni." "Its flat light, monumentalizing simplicity and minimal content
anticipated Courbet, Manet and Cezanne."
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.E5)
1826 The Erie Canal, 387 miles
long and completed in 1826, connected Lake Erie, at Buffalo, to the
Hudson River at Albany, New York. Begun in 1817 through the determined
efforts of New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, the canal, which utilized
light packet boats drawn by horses, reduced the passenger schedule
between Buffalo and Albany from the 10 days required by stage service
to three-and-a-half days. The canal brought many settlers to the Mohawk
Valley and formed a great highway for freight from the Northwest to the
seaboard. [see 1825]
(HNQ, 12/29/99)
1826 Englishmen scientist James
Smithson (1765-1829) drew up his will and named his nephew as
beneficiary. In the will he stated that should his nephew die without
heirs, the estate should go to the US of America to found at
Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institute, an
establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, p.T6)
1826 David Farragut gathered
youngsters from warships anchored in Hampton Roads and established
America’s first floating Annapolis aboard the U.S.S. Alert.
(NG, Sept. 1939, J. Maloney p.363)
1826 The Galerie Vero-Dodat (2,
Rue de Bouloi), was built by two well-off charcutiers in Paris, France.
Vero and Dodat spared no expense with the classical style interior that
featured sculpted woodwork, ceiling frescoes, mosaic flooring, and
brass ornament,
(Hem., 10/’95, p.109)
1826 Joseph Buchner refined willow
bark in crystals that he named salicin, after salix, the Latin name for
willow. [see aspirin in 1899]
(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.M6)
1826 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe,
German amateur astronomer, began a systematic program of observing the
Sun from his home in Dessau. He kept careful records of sunspots over
17 years and in 1843 noted an 11-year cycle in their frequency.
(Econ, 6/28/03, p.77)(NG, 7/04, p.21)
1826 Scotsman Robert Stein
invented the continuous still. It was later refined by Aeneas Coffey as
the Coffey still.
(Hem, 11/02, p.36)
1826 An American mechanic
developed mold-blown glass.
(SFC, 9/21/05, p.G3)
1826 John James Audubon
(1785-1851), painter and ornithologist, arrived in Britain to oversee
the production of his "Birds of America." Although the 1st engravings
were done in Edinburgh the project was soon transferred to London and
completed over the next 12 years.
(WSJ, 3/26/04, p.W6)(AH, 10/04, p.75)
1826 Audubon read a technical
paper before the Natural History Society of Edinburgh entitled:
"Account of the habits of the turkey buzzard, particularly with the
view of exploding the opinion generally entertained of its
extraordinary power of smelling." [see K.E. Stager in 1964]
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.54)
1826 Rene Theophile Hyacinthe
Laennec, French physician and inventor of the stethoscope, died from
tuberculosis.
(ON, 9/00, p.11)
1826 In Batavia Capt. William
Morgan was kidnapped by brother Masons for divulging fraternity
secrets. His body was never found. His book "Illustrations of
Freemasonry" revealed some Mason secrets. His death inspired America’s
1st third party, the anti-Mason, who dominated western NY for almost a
decade.
(WSJ, 7/25/00, p.A20)(WSJ, 2/6/02, p.A16)(WSJ,
6/28/02, p.W13)
1826 In Argentina Bernardino
Rivadavia (1780-1845) was chosen as the first president of the United
Provinces of La Plata. He was forced to resign in 1827. His political
opponents called him the “Chocolate Dictator.”
(www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0841998.html)(SSFC,
11/27/05, p.A24)
1826 The British Cape Colony was
extended northward to the Orange River.
(EWH, 4th ed, p.885)
1826 In Egypt Jean-Francois
Champollion, French Egyptologist and decipherer of the Rosetta Stone,
began collecting Egyptian artifacts. He convinced Charles X to purchase
the private collections of the French and English consuls in Egypt.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A16)
1826 In Mexico Plutarco Elias
Calles, founder of the modern Mexican political system, tried to
suppress the Church. This fomented the Cristiada, 3 years of rebellion
and outright war.
(WSJ, 8/13/97, p.A12)
1826 Dom Pedro IV, emperor of
Brazil, attained the Portuguese throne.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.T1)
1826 In Scotland the first
exhibition of Clydesdale horses for show occurred at the Glasgow
Exhibition. The horses had been bred for hauling coal.
(SFEC, 1/30/00, Z1 p.2)
1826 Methodist missionaries
arrived at Tonga from Australia.
(SFEC, 5/28/00, p.T10)
1826-1828 Corot was in Italy and painted "View of St.
Peter’s and the Castel Sant’Angelo."
(FAMSF, 2/98)
1826-1829 Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842), French
explorer and naturalist, sailed around the Pacific Ocean.
(CW, Spring ‘99, p.3)
1826-1833 In NYC the Hawk and Buzzard newspaper
subsisted largely on gossip.
(SFEM, 11/8/98, p.12)
1826-1852 The Duke of Wellington served as Constable
of the Tower of London.
(Hem, 9/04, p.71)
1826-1877 Walter Bagehot, English editor and
economist: "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a
new idea." "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be
without temptation."
(AP, 5/22/97)(AP, 9/2/98)
1826-1887 Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English novelist.
"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be
in one sense a great man."
(AP, 3/14/97)
1826-1908 Henry Clifton Sorby, English geologist,
invented a method for making thin rock slices for microscopic
investigation.
(OAPOC-TH, p.71)
1827 Feb 1, Alphonse de
Rothschild, French banker, was born.
(MC, 2/1/02)
1827 Feb 7, Ballet (Deserter) was
introduced to US at Bowery Theater in NYC.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1827 Feb 7, Franz Anton Dimmler
(73), composer, died.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1827 Feb 17, Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi (81), Swiss educator, died.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1827 Feb 27, Richard W. Johnson
(d.1897), Bvt Major General (Union Army), was born.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1827 Feb 27, A Mardi Gras street
procession in New Orleans was initiated by students, who were home from
school in France. They formed a parade of masked marchers on Shrove
Tuesday, the day before the period of penance begins on Ash Wednesday.
(HN, 2/27/98)(HNQ, 2/9/99)
1827 Feb 28, The first U.S.
railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
(AP, 2/28/98)
1827 Mar 5, Pierre-Simon Laplace
(b.1749), French mathematician, astronomer, physicist, died. He
invented perturbation theory and wrote the 5-volume work "Celestial
Mechanics." In 1998 Charles Couiston Gillespie published his biography
"Pierre-Simon Laplace: A Life in Exact Science."
(WSJ, 2/19/98,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace)
1827 Mar 5, Alessandro Volta
(b.1745), Italian physicist who made 1st battery (1800), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta)
1827 Mar 16, The first
Afro-American newspaper , Freedom’s Journal, was published in New York
City.
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(AP, 3/16/97)
1827 Mar 26, Ludwig von Beethoven
(56), German composer, died in Vienna. He had been deaf for the later
part of his life, but said on his death bead "I shall hear in heaven."
It was later determined that he suffered from lead poisoning. In 1995
Tia DeNora authored "Beethoven and the Construction of Genius." In 2000
Russell Martin authored "Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical
Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved."
(WSJ, 5/29/96, p.A5)(AP, 3/256/97)(HN, 3/26/99)(SFC,
10/18/00, p.A2)(WSJ, 1/17/02, p.A12)
1827 Mar 29, Composer Ludwig van
Beethoven was buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1827 Apr 2, William Holdman Hunt,
English painter (Light of the World), was born.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1827 Apr 2, Joseph Dixon began
manufacturing lead pencils.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1827 Apr 5, Joseph Lister
(d.1912), English physician, was born. He founded the idea of using
antiseptics during surgery.
(WUD, 1994, p.836)(HN, 4/5/99)
1827 Apr 7, English chemist John
Walker invented wooden matches.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1827 Apr 10, Lewis Wallace
(d.1905), soldier, lawyer, diplomat and author (Ben Hur), was born. "As
a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well
where they have behaved badly."
(HN, 4/10/98)(AP, 12/5/00)
1827 Apr 13, Hugh Clapperton,
Scottish traveler and explorer of West and Central Africa, died in
Sokoto, Nigeria, of dysentery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Clapperton)
1827 Apr 20, John Gibbon (d.1896),
Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1827 Apr 26, Charles Edward Hovey,
Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1827 May 4, John Hanning Speke,
English explorer, was born. He discovered Lake Victoria and the source
of the Nile.
(HN, 5/4/99)
1827 May 29, Reuben Lindsay Walker
(d.1890), Brigadier General (Confederate Army), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1827 Jun 5, Athens fell to the
Ottomans during Greek War of Independence.
(HN, 6/5/98)(MC, 6/5/02)
1827 Jun 12, Johanna Spyri
(d.1901), Swiss author, was born. She is best known for her novel
Heidi, the story of a young girl who leave her home in the Swiss Alps
for adventures in the world below. [see June 12, 1829]
(WUD, 1994 p.1379)(HN, 6/12/99)
1827 Jul 4, New York state law
emancipated adult slaves. The laws were rewritten to make sure that all
slaves would eventually be freed.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, BR p.5)(Maggio, 98)(ON, 11/99, p.5)
1827 Jul 16, Josiah Spode, potter,
died.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1827 Aug 10, There were race riots
in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1827 Aug 12, William Blake
(b.1757), English visionary engraver and poet, died. In 2001 G.E.
Bentley Jr. authored "The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of
William Blake."
(SSFC, 5/27/01, DB p.73)(MC, 8/12/02)
1827 Aug 22, Industrialist Ezra
Butler Eddy (d.1906) was born in Vermont. E.B. Eddy, who became known
as the matchmaker of the world, moved his small friction-match factory
from Burlington, Vt., to Hull, Que., in 1851. He expanded, modernized
and diversified to produce a variety of wood and paper products. Eddy
was elected mayor of Hull six times and was a member of the Quebec
legislature for six years.
(AP, 8/22/01)
1827 Aug 22, Josef Strauss,
Austrian composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria), was born.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1827 Sep 18, John Towsend
Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys, who wrote the Jack
Hazzard and Toby Trafford series, was born.
(HN, 9/18/98)
1827 Oct 15, Charles Darwin
reached Christ's Counsel, Cambridge.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1827 Oct 20, British, French and
Russian squadrons entered the harbor at Navarino, Greece, and destroyed
most of the Egyptian fleet there. The Ottomans demanded reparations.
(EWH, 4th ed,
p.770)(www.ipta.demokritos.gr/erl/navarino.html)
1827 Nov 10, Alfred Howe Terry
(d.1890), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1827 Nov 15, Creek Indians lost
all their property in US.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1827 Nov 26, Ellen Gould White,
founder of the Seventh Day Adventists, was born.
(HN, 11/26/00)
1827 Luther Roby, a Concord
printer, published "A Journal Kept By Mr. John Howe While He Was
Employed As A British Spy during the Revolutionary War; Also While He
Was Engaged In The Smuggling Business." The book was later thought to
based on the journal of British officer Henry De Berniere and published
by John Gill, member of the Sons of Liberty, in 1779.
(AH, 10/01, p.56)
1827 David Zeisberger, Moravian
missionary, published "Grammar of the Language of the Lenni-Lenape," a
Delaware Indian tribe.
(NH, 10/96, p.16)
1827 V. Bellini wrote his opera
"Il Pirata." It was his 1st major success.
(WSJ, 10/31/02, p.A1)
1827 August Marschner wrote his
opera "Der Vampyr."
(WSJ, 1/21/98, p.A16)
1827 Franz Schubert composed his
song cycle "Winterreise."
(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A16)
1827 Businessman and publisher
Louis A. Godey bought the Boston Godey’s Lady’s Book, a ladies’
magazine, and offered its editorship to successful novelist Sarah Hale,
a widow with four children to support. Godey’s Lady’s Book, with Sarah
Josepha Hale as its editor and driving force for 50 years, was an
important cultural influence in 19th-century America. Godey’s enjoyed
great success publishing morally upright and sentimental literature and
avoiding unfeminine topics like politics, scandal and controversy. By
mid-century it had 150,000 subscribers. Particularly popular were
fashion plates, such as the steel-plate engraving of wedding gowns
shown here, crafts, décor and housekeeping ideas that greatly
influenced American home life. Competition and Hale’s retirement in
1877 led Louis Godey to sell the magazine in 1883. Thirteen years
later, Godey’s was absorbed into another publication.
(HNPD, 9/29/98)
1827 The first edition of New
York's Freedom's Journal was published by John Russworm and Samuel
Cornish. "For too long others have spoken for us." The journal lasted
for 2 years.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, DB p.28)(SFC, 2/22/99, p.A21)
1827 John Nelson Darby
(1800-1882), British evangelical preacher, first conceived the doctrine
of a secret rapture based on a passage of St. Paul’s letter to the
Thessalonians.
(www.sullivan-county.com/news/cathouse/darby.htm)(Econ, 12/18/04, p.34)
1827 Joseph Smith, Mormon founder,
received his tablets on Mount Cumorah near Palmyra, NY.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1827 Catherine McAuley
(1787-1841), founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland. They
engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy. Frances Warde
led the sisters out from Ireland. In 2002 John J. Fialka authored
"Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America."
(WUD, 1994 p.1333)(SSFC, 1/19/03, p.M6)
1827 The U.S. and Great Britain
submitted the Maine and New Brunswick boundary dispute to arbitration
by the King of the Netherlands in 1827, whose compromise was accepted
by the British but rejected by the U.S.
(HNQ, 9/30/99)
1827 Roger Brooke Taney became
attorney general of Maryland.
(WSJ, 11/21/06, p.D8)
1827 The government hired Capt.
Henry Miller Shreve to remove a 100-mile "raft" of snags and trees that
prevented steamboats from entering the Red River. His work camp later
became the city of Shreveport, La.
(ON, 7/02, p.11)
1827 John Davis opened the doors
of the first full-dress American gambling casino in New Orleans.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1827 John Herschel proposed
contact lenses.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R14)
1827 Friction matches were first
produced.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, Z1 p.2)
1827 Francois Soudre invented the
artificial language Solresol. He proposed using the musical scale for
the building blocks of an international vocabulary.
(Wired, 8/96, p.86)
1827 Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier,
French mathematician who served under Napoleon in Egypt, compared the
interaction of the earth and its atmosphere to the setting in a
hothouse. He said the Earth’s gases are like the greenhouse glass walls
and help keep us warm.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.26)
1827 Greenwich Academy, the oldest
school for girls in Connecticut, was founded.
(NG, Feb, 04, p.120)
1827 The Univ. of Toronto, Canada,
was founded.
(Econ, 1/22/05, p.20)
1827 The Chippewa community of
Aamjiwnaang First Nation was founded in Ontario just across from Port
Huron, Mich. Much of the original reserve was sold via questionable
land deals in the 1960s. In 1993 the percentage of boys born in the
community began dropping and by 2005 girls outnumbered boys by 3:1.
Local petrochemical manufacturing was suspected as the cause.
(SSFC, 12/18/05, p.A30)
1827 The Cocos Islands (aka
Keeling Islands) in the Indian Ocean were settled by the Clunies-Ross
family. A descendent ceded the coral atolls to Australia in 1978.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.84)
1827 In France Victor Hugo wrote
the official coronation ode for Charles X, the last Bourbon king.
(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A16)
1827 The lithopane (lithophane)
was patented in Paris. It allowed a picture, embedded in porcelain, to
be viewed in light by varying the thickness of a porcelain base.
Generally credited as being the invention of Baron Paul de Bourguignon,
of Rubelles, France, in 1827, the earliest forms of lithophanes were
actually produced in China many years before other countries produced
them.
(SFC, 3/1/06,
p.G7)(http://bellerosefarm.com/html/_lithopane_history.html)
1827 Joseph Niepce, French
inventor, met with English botanist Francis Bauer, who agreed to
present Niepce’s ground breaking photographic work to the Royal
Society, which rejected the bid. Before leaving London Niepce made a
gift of his 1826 pewter image to Bauer. The pewter image was
re-discovered in 1952 by photo historian Helmut Gernsheim.
(ON, 10/08, p.8)
1828 Jan 31, Alexandros Ypsilanti
(35), Greek resistance fighter, died.
(MC, 1/31/02)
1828 Feb 8, French author Jules
Verne (d.1905) was born. He is considered the father of science
fiction. Many of his 19th-century works forecast amazing scientific
feats--feats that were actually carried out in the 20th century--with
uncanny accuracy. Verne's 1865 book From the Earth to the Moon told the
story of a space ship that is launched from Florida to the moon and
that returns to Earth by landing in the ocean. Something of a scientist
and traveler himself, Verne's 1870 work about a submarine, "Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," and "Around the World in Eighty Days"
also foretold technological advances that seemed fantastic at the time.
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
(HNPD, 2/8/99)(AP, 10/1/00)
1828 Feb 12, George Meredith,
English poet and novelist, was born.
(HN, 2/12/01)
1828 Feb 18, More than 100 vessels
were destroyed in a storm at Gibraltar.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1828 Feb 21, The first issue of
the Cherokee Phoenix, the 1st American Indian newspaper in US, was
printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet.
(HN, 2/21/98)(MC, 2/21/02)
1828 Mar 5, Johann Gungl,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1828 Mar 8, Johann Anton Sulzer
(75), composer, died.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1828 Mar 17, Maj. Gen'l. Patrick
R. Cleburne, the "Stonewall" of the West, was born.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1828 Mar 20, Henrik Ibsen
(d.1906), poet and dramatist was born in Skien, Norway. His work
included “Peer Gynt” and “Hedda Gabler.” "The worst enemy of truth and
freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned,
compact, liberal majority." In 1971 the 3rd and final volume of “Ibsen:
A Biography” by Michael Meyer (d.2000) was published.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(HN, 3/20/98)(AP, 7/22/98)(SFC,
8/10/00, p.D2)
1828 Apr 4, Casparus van Wooden
patented chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam).
(MC, 4/4/02)
1828 Apr 14, The first edition of
Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was
published. Webster had finished writing it in England in January, 1825.
(AP, 4/14/97)(HN, 4/14/98)(http://tinyurl.com/2hyj76)
1828 Apr 16, Francisco Jose Goya y
Lucientes (b.1746), Spanish painter, cartoonist, died at age 82 in
France. He had served 3 generations of Spanish kings as court painter.
In 2002 Julia Blackburn authored "Old Man Goya." In 2003 Robert Hughes
authored "Goya." See link for Goya timeline.
(WSJ, 5/10/02, p.W8)(Econ, 10/18/03,
p.81)(http://tinyurl.com/ngxt7)
1828 Apr 21, Hippolyte Taine,
French philosopher, historian (Voyage in Italy), was born.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1828 Apr 26, Russia declared war
on Turkey to support Greece's independence.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1828 May 6, The Cherokee Indians
were forced to sign a treaty giving up their Arkansas Reservation for a
new home in what later became Oklahoma. This led to a split in the
tribe as one group moved to Oklahoma and others stayed behind and
became known as the Lost Cherokees.
(Econ, 3/11/06,
p.28)(http://digital.library.okstate.edu/KAPPLER/Vol2/treaties/che0288.htm)
1828 May 8, Jean Henri Dunant
(d.1910), Swiss philanthropist, was born. He founded the Int’l.
Committee of the Red Cross and was the first recipient (jointly) of the
Nobel Peace Prize.
(HN, 5/8/99)
1828 May 12, Gabriel Dante
Rosetti, English poet and painter, was born. He helped found the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-10)(SC, Internet, 5/12/97)
1828 May 13, US passed the Tariff
of Abominations. Congress raised duties on manufactured goods from
abroad on which the South was dependent. South Carolina declared the
tariff null and void within its borders and pres. Jackson threatened to
send in troops. The tariffs were lowered in 1833.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)
1828 May 16, Sir William Congreve
(b.1772), British artillerist and inventor, died. In 1805 he developed
the Congreve Rocket.
(MC, 5/16/02)(WUD, 1994 p.310)
1828 May 18, The Battle of Las
Piedras, ended the conflict between Uruguay and Brazil.
(HN, 5/18/98)
1828 May 22, Albrecht von Grafe,
German eye surgeon, founder of modern ophthalmology, was born.
(HN, 5/22/01)
1828 Jun 7, A party led by
Jebediah Smith completed a journey down the Klamath River and were on
the verge of starvation when they were visited by Indians who brought
food. Smith's party proceeded north to Oregon and most of the party was
killed by Umpqua Indians. Smith was killed in 1831 by Comanches on the
Cimarron River. Smith’s party were the 1st white people to see Lake
Earl, the biggest lagoon on the West Coast.
(SFEC, 12/5/99, p.T5)(SFEC, 7/16/00, p.B1)
1828 Jun 13, Simon Bolivar
(1783-1830) was proclaimed dictator (Colombia).
(MC, 6/13/02)
1828 Jul 4, James Johnston
Pettigrew, scholar, teacher, Brig General (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 7/4/02)
1828 Jul 4, Ground-breaking
ceremonies were held in Baltimore for construction of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of the
Declaration of Independence, turned the spade in Baltimore. At the
groundbreaking, Carroll said, "I consider this among the most important
acts of my life, second only to that of signing the Declaration of
Independence, if even it be second to that." On the same day, in nearby
Georgetown, President John Quincy Adams, with great fanfare, lifted the
first shovel of dirt to begin construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal that would link Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburgh by water.
The railroad went on to become one of the nation's longest rail lines,
reaching St. Louis, Missouri, in 1857. The 185-mile canal, though it
had many years of use, was quickly eclipsed as a transportation medium
by the superior technology of the railroad.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.T6)(HNQ,
10/4/99)
1828 Jul 27, Gilbert Charles
Stuart, painter, died.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1828 Aug 22, Franz Joseph Gall
(70), German-French physician, fraud (phrenology), died.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1828 Aug 28, Leo Tolstoy (d.1910),
Russian novelist, was born. His work included "War and Peace" and
"Anna Karenina." "History would be an excellent thing if only it were
true." "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is
goodness." [see Sep 9]
(WUD, 1994 p.1491)(AP, 4/15/97)(AP, 10/14/99)(HN,
8/28/00)
1828 Aug, England’s Thames Tunnel
Company was forced to halt operations due to accidents and loss of
financial support. Work was halted for 7 years.
(ON, 4/06, p.9)
1828 Sep 8, Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), hero of Little Round
Top at Gettysburg, was born.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1828 Sep 9, Leo Tolstoy, Russian
novelist, was born. [see Aug 28]
(HN, 9/9/00)
1828 Sep 20, Gioacchino Rossini’s
opera "Le Comte Ory," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 9/20/01)
1828 Nov 1, Balfour Steward,
Scottish physicist and meteorologist, was born.
(HN, 11/1/00)
1828 Nov 8, Thomas Bewick
(b.1753), English engraver and ornithologist, died. In 2007 Jenny Uglow
authored “Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.”
(Econ, 5/26/07,
p.98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bewick)
1828 Nov 19, Franz Schubert
(b.1797), Austrian composer, died of syphilis in Vienna. In this he
composed his song cycle "Schwanengesang." His work included the C-Major
Symphony, string quartets, 3 piano sonatas, and the C-Major String
Quartet. Otto Erich Deutsch catalogued his work [hence the "D" numbers]
and wrote a documentary biography. In 1997 Brian Newbould wrote
"Schubert: The Music and the Man."
(SFEC, 2/2/97, DB. p.32)(WSJ, 4/16/97, p.A16)(WSJ,
5/13/97, p.A21)
1828 Dec 3, Andrew Jackson was
elected 7th president of the United States over John Quincy Adams.
Resentment of the restrictive credit policies of the first central
bank, the Bank of the United States, fueled a populist backlash that
elected Andrew Jackson.
(AP, 12/3/97)(WSJ, 12/31/97, p.A11)(WSJ, 6/10/98,
p.A18)
1828 Dec 22, Rachel Jackson,
beloved wife of Andrew Jackson, died of heart disease just weeks before
her recently elected husband was inaugurated as president of the United
States. Andrew Jackson had been 21 and a promising young lawyer when
Rachel Donelson Robards, his landlady's daughter and the estranged wife
of Lewis Robards of Kentucky, caught his eye. Robards had started
divorce proceedings, but had dropped them without his wife's knowledge.
Believing she was a free woman, Rachel married Andrew Jackson in 1791.
Two years later, the couple discovered that Robards was finally suing
for divorce--on the grounds of adultery and desertion. The divorce was
granted, and in 1794, the couple quietly remarried. Yet, for the rest
of her life, Rachel was unjustly slandered for her irregular marriage.
The gossip became particularly painful during the 1828 presidential
campaign when the 37-year-old scandal was resurrected as a campaign
issue. Andrew Jackson defeated his opponent John Quincy Adams, but when
Rachel died soon after the election, Jackson bitterly attributed her
death to "those vile wretches who...slandered her."
(HNPD, 12/22/98)
1828 Dec 23, Mathilde Wesendonk,
German writer, poet (Tagebuchblatter), was born.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1828 Dr. Paul Ferdinand Gachet was
born in Lille. He moved to Paris in 1848 to study medicine and
developed a clientele of artists that included Pissarro and Cezanne. He
accepted paintings in exchanged for services and amassed a sizable
collection. He also painted and used the pseudonym Paul Van Ryssel.
(WSJ, 2/16/99, p.A20)
1828 Pietro Tenerani, Italian
sculptor, made his two statues, allegories of Hunting and Fishing, at
Carrara. They were placed in Carrara’s Academy of Fine Arts, the former
Cybo-Malaspina palace.
(SFEC,10/19/97, p.T5)
1828 John Rubens Smith painted his
watercolor "West Front of the United States Capital." [see 1775-1844,
Smith]
(Civil., Jul-Aug., ‘95, p.66)
1828 Sister Mary Elizabeth Lange
of Haiti co-founded the first black Catholic school in the US.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-7)
1828 Me-a-pa-te, "the hill that is
hard to go around," in western Nebraska was renamed Scott’s Bluff,
after the body of trapper Hiram Scott was found nearby.
(HT, 3/97, p.34)
1828 Opponents of Andrew Jackson
accused the general of having murdered a Baptist minister and five
other white militiamen during the Creek War.
(WSJ, 10/8/96, p.A22)
1828 John Overlord, Andrew Jackson
and James Winchester, the founders of Memphis, Tenn., bestowed an
easement to the Mississippi riverfront for a promenade.
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.24)
1828 McKendree University, a
private liberal arts college, was founded in Illinois.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKendree_University)
1828 Conspirators broke into the
presidential palace in Bogota in an attempt to murder Simon Bolivar,
who escaped.
(Econ, 2/9/08, p.40)
1828 The Republic of Gran Colombia
fell apart due to political rivalries between its constituent
provinces. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela became independent countries.
(ON, 3/05, p.2)
1828 The Danish government decreed
that all persons should have a surname which was inherited from the
preceding generation.
(http://share-hodgson.org/patronym.html)(NYT,
10/8/04, p.A4)
1828 In France a perfume and
cosmetics house was established. In 1998 the firm was led by Jean-Paul
Guerlain, the great-grandson of the founder.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)
1828 In France Louis Daguerre
contacted Joseph Niepce with an offer to work together on the
photographic process that Niepce had developed.
(ON, 10/08, p.8)
1828 Rennee Caillie of France
became the 1st Westerner to reach Timbuktu, Mali, and survive to tell
the tale. In 1830 he published an account of his journey.
(SSFC, 4/11/04, p.D6)(ON, 11/06, p.7)
1828 The Mexican city of
Valladolid was renamed Morelia after independence hero Jose Maria
Morelos
(SSFC, 11/17/02, p.C11)
1828 Russia conquered the Armenian
provinces of Persia, and this had brought within her frontier the
Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat
of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
(http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce2.htm)
1828 Siamese [Thailand] forces
invaded Laos. Vat Sisaket, a temple in Vientiane, survived the
invasion.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.T4)
1828 Uruguay, created as a buffer
state between Argentina and Brazil, declared its independence.
(Hem., 2/96, p.26)
1828-1830 Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), the duke of
Wellington, served as British prime minister. He blocked badly needed
political reform and was later considered one of England’s worst prime
ministers.
(WSJ, 1/6/95, A-10)(ON, 4/06, p.5)
1828-1861 Queen Ranavalona I ruled over Madagascar.
(WSJ, 10/10/06, p.A1)(www.gasikara.net/Historama.htm)
1828-1896 Elizabeth Charles, British writer: "To know
how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets
or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men
martyrs or reformers -- or both."
(AP, 12/13/98)
1828-1909 George Meredith, English poet: "Cynicism is
intellectual dandyism."
(AP, 10/20/98)
1829 Jan 19, Johann von Goethe's
"Faust, Part 1," premiered.
(MC, 1/19/02)
1829 Jan 28, In Scotland William
Burke was hanged for murder following a scandal in which he was found
to have provided extra-fresh corpses for anatomy schools in Edinburgh.
His partner William Hare had turned king’s witness. The scandal led to
the 1832 Anatomy Act.
(Econ, 11/15/08,
p.99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Burke)
1829 Feb 11, Alexander Griboyedov
(b.1795), Russian diplomat, playwright and composer, was beheaded by a
mob attack on the Russian embassy in Tehran. Griboyedov was protecting
an Armenian eunuch, who had escaped from the harem of the Persian shah
along with 2 Armenian girls. The Russians let the incident pass after
an Iranian apology. They were already at war with the Turks and in
regional competition with the British.
(WSJ, 2/10/96,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Griboyedov)
1829 Feb 16, Francois-Joseph
Gossec (95), Belgian-French composer (Messe de Morts), died.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1829 Feb 26, Levi Strauss, creator
of blue jeans, was born.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1829 Mar 2, Carl Schurz, was born.
He was a Civil War general, political reformer and anti-imperialist.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1829 Mar 2, New England Asylum for
the Blind, 1st in US, was incorporated in Boston.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1829 Mar 4, An unruly crowd mobbed
the White House during the inaugural reception for President Jackson,
the 7th US President. The event was later depicted by artist Louis S.
Glanzman in his painting “Andrew Jackson’s Inauguration” (1970).
(AP, 3/4/98)(WSJ, 1/17/09, p.W5)
1829 Apr 6, Niels Henrik Abel
(b.1802), Norwegian mathematician, died of tuberculosis. After him
comes the term Abelian group, an algebraic commutative group. In 2004
Peter Pesic authored “Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning
of Mathematical Unsolvability.”
(AHD, 1971, p.2)(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A15)(Econ, 5/15/04,
p.80)
1829 Apr 10, William Booth,
founder (Salvation Army), was born.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1829 Apr 13, English Emancipation
Act granted freedom of religion to Catholics.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1829 May 8, Louis Moreau
Gottschalk (d.1869), American pianist, was born in New Orleans.
(HN,
5/8/02)(http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/gottschalk.html)
1829 May 10, Thomas Young,
physicist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics, died.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1829 May 15, Joseph Smith was
"ordained" by John the Baptist- according to Joseph Smith. Mormon
church was founded in NY.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1829 May 18, Bernardo Bittoni,
composer, died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1829 May 29, Humphrey Davy (84),
scientist, inventor (Miner's safety lamp), died at age 50. In 1963 Anne
Treneer authored "The Mercurial Chemist: A Life of Sir Humphrey Davy."
(ON, 12/01, p.7)(SC, 5/29/02)
1829 May, In Poland Niccolo
Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist, performed in concert in
Warsaw. Frederic Chopin (19) was so impressed that he proceeded to
compose a series of piano studies a la Paganini. Chopin’s 27 Etudes
later became a cornerstone of every gifted pianist’s repertoire.
(WSJ, 11/15/08, p.W11)
1829 Jun 8, John Everett Millais,
painter (Order of Release), was born in England.
(MC, 6/8/02)
1829 Jun 12, Johanna Spyri
(d.1901), Swiss author (Heidi), was born. [see June 12, 1827]
(HN, 6/12/01)
1829 Jun 19, Sir Robert Peel
founded the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies). [see Sep 29]
(MC, 6/19/02)
1829 Jun 27, James Smithson
(b.1765), Englishmen scientist, died. His 1926 will he stated that
should his nephew die without heirs, the estate should go to the US of
America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian
Institute, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge
among men. In 2003 Nina Burleigh authored "The Stranger and the
Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams and the Making of
America's Greatest Museum, The Smithsonian." [see 1836]
(SFEC, 8/25/96, p.T6)(SC, 6/27/02)(SSFC, 12/21/03,
p.M1)(SSFC, 12/21/03, p.A1)
1829 Jul 4, Cornerstone laid for
1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila).
(Maggio, 98)
1829 Jul 4, In Boston, Mass.,
abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) gave a passionate
antislavery sermon at the Park Street Church and was attacked by a
white supremacist mob who dragged him from the pulpit and beat him
nearly to death. Garrison published the anti-slavery newspaper, the
Liberator, from 1831-1865.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html)(AH, 10/07,
p.72)
1829 Jul 23, William Austin Burt
of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his "typographer," a
forerunner of the typewriter.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1829 Aug 9, The locomotive
"Stourbridge Lion" went into service.
(MC, 8/9/02)
1829 Aug 16, The original Siamese
twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston aboard the ship Sachem
to be exhibited to the Western world.
(AP, 8/16/97)
1829 Aug 25, Pres. Jackson made an
offer to buy Texas, but the Mexican government refused.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1829 Aug 31, Giachinno Rossini's
final opera "William Tell" was produced in Paris.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1829 Sep 8, George Crook (d.1890),
Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1829 Sep 12, Charles Dudley
Warner, essayist and novelist who, with Mark Twain, wrote "The Guilded
Age," was born.
(HN, 9/12/98)
1829 Sep 25, There was a failed
assassination attempt on Simon Bolivar.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1829 Sep 26, Scotland Yard, the
official British criminal investigation organization, was formed. [see
Sep 29 and June, 1842]
(HN, 9/26/99)
1829 Sep 28, Walker's Appeal, a
racial antislavery pamphlet, was published in Boston.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1829 Sep 29, London’s reorganized
police force, "bobbies", which became known as Scotland Yard, went on
duty.
(HFA, ‘96, p.38)(AP, 9/29/97)
1829 Sep, Ralph Waldo Emerson
married Ellen Louisa Tucker. She had active tuberculosis and died two
years later. His two brothers, Edward Bliss and Charles Chauncy died of
TB in 1834 and 1835. [see 1883-1885]
(WP, 1952, p.41)
1829 Oct 5, the 21st president of
the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, was born in Fairfield, Vt. Some
sources list 1830.
(AP, 10/5/07)
1829 Oct 16, Tremont Hotel, 1st US
modern hotel, opened in Boston.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1829 Oct 17, Delaware River and
Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened. The Chesapeake-Delaware Canal was
14 miles long.
(NG, Sept., 1939, p.379)(MC, 10/17/01)
1829 Oct 17, Sam Patch (~23),
stunt diver, successfully dove 120 feet from a platform on Goat Island
at Niagara Falls.
(MC, 11/13/01)(ON, 4/02, p.6)
1829 Oct 23, The Eastern State
Penitentiary in Philadelphia received its 1st prisoner, burglar Charles
Williams (18). It was based on the Quaker idea of reform through
solitude and reflection. It opened to tourists in 1971 after being
closed to prisoners. The prison was designed by John Haviland.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.B1)(AHHT, 10/02, p.18)
1829 Oct 29, Maria A. [Nannerl]
Mozart, Austrian pianist (Wolfgang's sister), died.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1829 Nov 8, Lord William Bentinck,
Governor-General of the East India Company, called for the abolition of
sati (suttee), the practice of a widow burning herself to death on her
husband's funeral pyre. [see Dec 4]
(www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1829bentinck.html)
1829 Nov 13, Sam Patch (~23),
stunt diver, dove 125 feet from a platform at the Genessee Falls in
Rochester. His body was found the following March in the Genessee River
ice. In 2003 Paul E. Johnson authored "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper."
(MC, 11/13/01)(ON, 4/02, p.6)(SSFC, 6/15/03, p.M6)
1829 Nov 16, Anton G. Rubinstein,
Russian pianist, conductor and composer, was born.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1829 Nov 20, Jews were expelled
from Nikolayev and Sevastopol, Russia.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1829 Nov 28, Anton Rubinstein
(d.1894), pianist and composer (Omitri Doskoy), was born in
Vykhvatinetz, Podolia. He was the teacher of Tchaikovsky and considered
the only rival of Liszt. His work included 6 symphonies, dozens of
concertos and chamber works, and 20 operas, of which only "The Demon"
has shown staying power. It was based on Lermontov’s Byronic poem.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A9)(MC, 11/28/01)
1829 Dec 4, British colonial
rulers abolished "suttee" (Sati) in India. This was the practice of a
widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre.
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/p/103.html)(Reuters,
9/21/06)
1829 Dec 8, The first presidential
address of Andrew Jackson.
(WSJ, 4/2/96, p.A-14)
1829 Dec 14, In France Joseph
Niepce signed a 10-year partnership agreement with Louis Daguerre to
perfect a new photographic imaging process discovered by Niepce.
(ON, 10/08, p.9)
1829 Dec 18, Jean-Baptiste de
Lamarck (~85), French nature investigator, died.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1829 Dec 21, The 1st stone arch
railroad bridge in US was dedicated in Baltimore.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1829 Dec 22, The Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad opened the first passenger railway line.
(HN, 12/22/98)
1829 Dec 27, Hinton Helper,
southern abolitionist, was born. He wrote "The Impending Crisis,"
the most stinging indictment of slavery.
(HN, 12/27/98)
1829 David Walker, an outspoken
black abolitionist, stated the Mr. Jefferson’s remarks (on white
superiority) "have sunk deep into the hearts of millions of whites and
will never be removed this side of eternity." [see 1743]
(SFC,12/897, p.A27)
1829 Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875) published his first literary work: “A Walking Tour from
Holmen’s Canal to the Eastern Point of Amager.”
(ON, 7/06, p.7)
1829 William Cobbett, British
writer, authored “The Emigrant’s Guide,” offering advice on settling in
the New World.
(WSJ, 12/22/08, p.A17)
1829 Mendelssohn's revived Bach’s
St. Matthew Passion.
(LGC-HCS, p.32)
1829 Frederic Chopin at 19
published his Waltz #10, Op.69/2 and Waltz #13 Op.70/3. These were his
first and second published waltzes.
(BAAC PN, Chambers, 1/8/96)
1829 Utopian reformers opened the
Hall of Science in a disused downtown Manhattan church, across the
street from Tract House, the headquarters of a new Christian
evangelical movement.
(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.M2)
1829 The American Bible Society
published scripture in the Seneca Indian language.
(WSJ, 8/7/98, p.W13)
1829 Sister Mary Elizabeth Lange
of Haiti co-founded the first black religious order of nuns (the Oblate
Sisters of Providence) in the US.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-7)
1829 US Senator Daniel Webster
appointed the first Senate page. The first US House page was appointed
in 1842.
(SFC, 10/5/06, p.A16)(WSJ, 10/5/06, p.A4)
1829 Plymouth Brethren
missionaries from the US made their 1st trip to Baghdad.
(WSJ, 1/17/03, p.W13)
1829 Abner Cutler started a
cabinet making business in Buffalo, New York. The company manufactured
roll-top desks for decades.
(SFC, 8/17/05, p.G5)
1829 The Yeungling Brewery began
producing beer in Pottsville, Pa.
(WSJ, 3/23/04, p.B5)
1829 William Austin Burt patented
his typographer, the first practical typewriter writing machine.
(SJSVB, 3/25/96, p.27)
1829 In Western Australia the
Nyoongar people were largely dispossessed by white settlement. In 2006
they proved native title to over more than 6,000 square kilometers
(2,300 square miles) covering Perth and its surrounds by continuing to
observe traditional customs.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
1829 Daniel O’Connell, an Irish
Catholic, took a seat in the House of Commons and began to work for the
repeal of the union between Britain and Ireland. Nationalistic
sentiments became identified mainly with the Catholics.
(SFEC, 12/22/96, Z1,p.6)
1829 In England the ban on
Catholic voting was lifted.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, BR p.5)
1829 Oxford and Cambridge held
their first boat race on the River Thames at Henley in Oxfordshire. The
second race occurred in 1836, with the venue moved to be from
Westminster to Putney.
(Econ, 3/28/09,
p.95)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_Race)
1829 The Obelisk of Luxor, a gift
from Egypt, was transported to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. [see
1836]
(WSJ, 10/26/99, p.A24)
1829 Friedrich Buschmann, German
musician, invented the accordion and laid out the buttons in a circle
of fifths pattern.
(ElMus, 3/95, p.69)
1829 A hurricane destroyed the
town of Loreto in Baha California except for the Mission Nuestra Senora
de Loreto. The center of government was moved down the coast to La Paz.
(SFEC, 5/18/97, p.T5)(SSFC, 11/2/03, p.C10)
1829-1833 Walter Bowne served as mayor of NYC.
(SSFC, 4/17/05, Par p.12)
1829-1833 Honore Daumier, French artist, created his
bust of Comte de Lameth. Daumier honed his caricaturing skills with a
series of terra-cotta busts that lampooned the right-wing leaders of
the Court party. Lameth had fought for the colonists in the American
Revolution and had voted to abolish the aristocracy during the French
revolution.
(WSJ, 3/10/00, p.W16)
1829-1837 Andrew Jackson was President of the US. In
2001 Robert V. Remini authored "Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars."
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)(SSFC, 7/15/01, DB p.63)
1829-1877 This period in US history was covered by
Walter A. McDougall in his 2008 book “Throes of Democracy: The American
Civil War Era 1829-1877.”
(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.D6)
1829-1900 Charles Dudley Warner, American author and
editor: "Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as
strong as the Ten Commandments."
(AP, 9/24/98)
1829-1904 John Rogers, sculptor. He depicted
Americans the way they wanted to be seen and became known as the
"People’s Sculptor."
(AHHT, 4/01, p.7)
1829-1906 Carl Schurz, American politician: "Ideals
are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as
your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."
(AP, 5/21/98)
1829-1908 Thomas Hill, American landscape painter.
(SSFC, 2/4/01, DB p.65)
1829-1912 General William Booth was the founder and
leader of the Salvation Army, a Christian and social welfare
organization taking spiritual and material help to the needy, first in
London and then around the world. Booth, ordained a Methodist minister
in 1858 but later becoming an independent evangelist, changed the name
of his Christian Mission to the Salvation Army in 1878, adopting a
military structure. Booth‘s seven children toiled in the Army,
organizing units (including the Volunteers of America) throughout the
world.
(HNQ, 3/13/00)
1830 Jan 7, 1st US Railroad
Station opened in Baltimore.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1830 Jan 7, Albert Bierstadt,
painter (US landscapes), was born in Germany.
(MC, 1/7/02)
1830 Jan 8, Gouverneur Kemble
Warren (d.1882), Major Gen (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1830 Jan 8, Hans von Bulow,
pianist, virtuoso conductor, was born in Dresden.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1830 Jan 13, There was a great
fire in New Orleans. It was thought to be set by rebel slaves.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1830 Jan 28, Daniel Auber's opera
"Fra Diavolo," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1830 Feb 3, Robert Cecil, Marquess
of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902), was born.
(MC, 2/3/02)
1830 Feb, In France the
Comedie-Francaise performed "Hernani," a play whose hero swears
vengeance against Don Carlo, i.e. King Charles. The play "provoked a
brouhaha that heralded the July Revolution."
(WSJ, 2/10/98, p.A16)
1830 Mar 4, V. Bellini's opera "I
Capuleti e i Montecchi" premiered in Venice.
(WSJ, 11/10/98, p.A20)(SC, 3/4/02)
1830 Mar 16, London reorganized
its police force, Scotland Yard.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1830 Apr 5, Alexander Muir, poet
(Maple Leaf Forever), was born in Lesmahagow, Scotland.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1830 Apr 6, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith and five
others in Fayette, Seneca County, N.Y. Joseph Smith published the "Book
of Mormon" in Palmyra, New York. He claimed that the manuscript was
based on ancient golden plates revealed to him by the angel Moroni and
written in the language of the Egyptians. The book records the journey
of an ancient Israelite prophet, Lehi, and his family to the American
continent some 2,000 years ago. [see 1827, 1831]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(NH, 10/96, p.19)(AP, 4/6/97)(HN,
4/6/98)
1830 Apr 9, Edward Muybridge,
pioneered study of motion, photography, was born in England. In 2002
Rebecca Solnit authored "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the
Technological Wild West."
(MC, 4/9/02)(SSFC, 1/26/03, p.M1)
1830 May 1, Mother (Mary Harris)
Jones, reformer and labor organizer, was born. [see 1837]
(HN, 5/1/01)
1830 May 3, The 1st regular steam
train passenger service started.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1830 May 5, John B. Stetson,
American hat maker, was born. He gave his name to the wide-brimmed
cowboy hat.
(HN, 5/5/99)
1830 May 18, Karl Goldmark
Keszthely, composer, was born in Hungary.
(HN, 5/18/98)(SC, 5/18/02)
1830 May 18, Edwin Beard Budding
of England signed an agreement for the manufacture of his invention,
the lawn mower. He adopted the rotary blade in the cloth industry to
grass.
(SC, 5/18/02)(Econ, 12/20/03, p.118)
1830 May 20, The 1st railroad
timetable was published in the newspaper Baltimore American.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1830 May 20, Dr. Hyde patented a
fountain pen.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1830 May 24, "Mary Had a Little
Lamb," was written. Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport, N.H., published a
collection of poems "Poems for Our Children," that included "Mary Had a
Little Lamb." [see 1815]
(SFC, 8/24/98, p.B6)(MC, 5/24/02)
1830 May 24, The first passenger
railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and
Elliott’s Mills, Md. The first regularly scheduled railroad passenger
service was pulled by the engine named "The Best Friend of Charleston."
(AP, 5/24/97)(SFC, 6/18/99, p.D4)
1830 May 25, Jules de Geyter,
Belgian poet (International), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1830 May 28, Congress authorized
Indian removal from all states to western prairie.
(HN, 5/28/98)
1830 Jun 26, Britain’s King George
IV (b.1762) died. George Augustus Frederick of Hanover, Prince of
Wales, was called Prinny by his friends. He was succeeded by his
brother, King William IV. In 2002 Steven Parissien authored "George
IV." The crown passed to George's brother who became William IV.
(WSJ, 4/5/02,
p.W12)(www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/george_iv_king.shtml)(ON,
4/09, p.7)
1830 Jul 4, William Sublette, a
trapper and explorer, named Independence Rock, Wyo., when he celebrated
his 54th birthday there.
(SFC, 8/13/98, p.A3)
1830 Jul 5, The French occupied
the North African city of Algiers.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1830 Jul 10, Camille Pissarro
(d.1903), French impressionist painter, was born on the island of St.
Thomas in the West Indies. He studied as a child in Paris but spent his
early years as an artist in Caracas, Venezuela. In Paris he became a
devotee of the neo-Impressionist technique.
(WUD, 1994, p.1097)(DPCP 1984)(HN, 7/10/01)
1830 Jul 15, 3 Indian tribes,
Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signed a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota,
Iowa & Missouri.
(MC, 7/15/02)
1830 Jul 18, Uruguay adopted a
liberal constitution.
(HN, 7/18/98)
1830 Jul 26, King Charles X of
France issued five ordinances limiting the political and civil rights
of citizens.
(HN, 7/26/98)
1830 Jul 27, A second Revolution
broke out in Paris opposing the laws of Charles X.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1830 Jul 28, Revolution in France
replaced Charles X with Louis Philippe.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1830 Jul 29, Liberals led by the
Marquis of Lafayette seized Paris in opposition to the king’s
restrictions on citizens’ rights.
(HN, 7/29/98)
1830 Jul 31, Charles X of France
was forcibly ejected from the French throne. [see Jul 28]
(MC, 7/31/02)
1830 Jul-1830 Aug, In Britain the
June 26 death of Britain’s King George IV triggered elections. Polling
took place in July and August and the Tories won a majority over the
Whigs, but division among Tory MPs allowed Earl Grey to form an
effective government and take the question of electoral reform to the
country the following year.
(ON, 4/09,
p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1830)
1830 Aug 4, Plans for the city of
Chicago were laid out.
(AP, 8/4/97)
1830 Aug 9, Louis-Philippe
formally accepted the crown of France, following abdication of Charles
X, last brother of guillotined Louis XVI. He was the son of the
opportunistic Duke d'Orleans, first cousin to the late king, who
renounced his royal heritage and called himself plain Phillipe Egalite.
Louis-Philippe voted for his cousin's death in 1793, but followed him
to the guillotine in 1794.
(MC, 8/9/02)
1830 Aug 25, The "Tom Thumb" steam
locomotive, designed by Peter Cooper, ran its famous race with a
horse-drawn car. The horse won because the engine, which had been
ahead, broke down. [see Sep 18]
(HN, 8/25/98)(ON, 1/01, p.12)
1830 Aug 25, Belgium rebelled
against Netherlands.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1830 Aug 28, "Tom Thumb," the 1st
locomotive in US, ran from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1830 Sep 9 Charles Durant flew a
balloon from New York City across the Hudson River to Perth Amboy, N.J.
(AP, 9/9/05)
1830 Sep 15, British MP William
Huskisson (b.1770) was killed under the wheels of the “Rocket” train at
the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. He was the 1st
person to be run-over by a railroad train.
(SFEC,12/21/97, Z1
p.5)(www.wordiq.com/definition/William_Huskisson)
1830 Sep 18, Tom Thumb" the first
locomotive built in the United States, lost a nine-mile race in
Maryland to a horse. [see Aug 25]
(HN, 9/18/98)(ON, 1/01, p.12)
1830 Sep 18, William Hazlitt
(b.1778), in his time England’s finest essayist, died. "A nickname is
the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man." In 2008 Duncan
Wu authored “William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man.”
(AP, 11/10/99)(WSJ, 1/16/09,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt)
1830 Sep 20, The National Negro
Convention convened in Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing
slavery.
(HN, 9/20/98)
1830 Oct 15, Helen Maria Hunt
Jackson (d.1885), writer and poet, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Her 1881 non-fiction work, "A Century of Dishonor," raised concerns
about the treatment of Native Americans. Jackson, a lifelong friend of
Emily Dickinson, worked on a government investigation of the treatment
of Mission Indians. Her 1884 novel Ramona was also about the plight of
Indians in California. "Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt;
and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride
carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field
unfurls it in another." "It is the weakness and danger of republics,
that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in
their legislation."
(AP, 5/24/97)(HN, 10/15/98)(HNQ, 12/20/99)(AP,
2/17/00)
1830 Nov 8, Oliver Otis Howard
(d.1909), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1830 Nov 13, Oliver Wendell Holmes
published "Old Ironsides."
(MC, 11/13/01)
1830 Nov 15, In Britain Lord Grey
used his majority in the House of commons to defeat the government of
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. Wellington resigned the next
day.
(ON, 4/09, p.8)
1830 Dec 5, Christina Rossetti
(d.1894), poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away), was born in London. She
wrote devotional verse, curious fairy tales and category defying poems.
Her brothers, William Michael and Dante Gabriel, helped found the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose professed aim was to revive the
purity and vividness they admired in late medieval art. Her story is
told by Jan Marsh in "Christina Rosetti: A Writer’s Life." "Better by
far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be
sad."
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-10)(AP, 12/11/98)(MC, 12/5/01)
1830 Dec 10, Emily Dickinson
(d.1886), American poet, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Perhaps
the best-known woman poet in the United States today, Dickinson led a
rather secluded life. After studying at Amherst Academy and then for
one year at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, she lived with her
family and never married. The few friends that Emily Dickinson did have
received regular gifts of poetry and letters from her. Although she
wrote poetry constantly, she never seriously pursued publishing her
work. Only about 10 poems were published in her lifetime, and those
were submitted for publication without her permission. After her death
in 1886, more than 1,700 of her poems, which she had bound together in
bundles, were discovered and published. "They say that God is
everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
(HNPD, 12/8/98)(AP, 1/10/99)
1830 Dec 17, Simon Bolivar
(b.1783), called "the Liberator," died of TB in Santa Marta, in
Colombia. He was a leader in Venezuela for struggles of national
independence in South America. He formed a Gran Colombia that lasted 8
years, but broke apart into Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. In 2006
John Lynch authored “Simon Bolivar: A Life.”
(AHD, p.148)(SFC, 6/14/97, p.E3)(AP, 12/17/97)(Econ,
7/1/06, p.77)
1830 Dec 20, An international
conference declared the dissolution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
effectively recognizing the independence of Belgium.
(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~noemeetjesland/1830/1830.htm)
1830 Dec 26, Gaetano Donizetti's
opera "Anna Bolena," premiered in Milan.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1830 Ingres made his pencil study
for "La Grande Odalisque. "
(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A11)
c1830 Franz Kreuger painted his
portrait of Russia’s Empress Alexandra Fedorovna.
(SSFM, 4/1/01, p.61)
c1830 Sheldon Peck, American New
England artist, painted the portrait of a revolutionary soldier or
dignitary. The portrait had been found in a local auction and was
bought for $25. In 1997 it was valued at about $250,000.
(SFC, 8/19/97, p.A6)
1830 George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
(Edward George Bulwer-Lytton) published his novel "Paul Clifford." The
opening line was "It was a dark and stormy night," and led to the 1982
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing. Lytton also coined the
phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword."
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A14)(SFC, 7/10/01, p.A18)
1830 Stendhal (1783-1842), the nom
de plume of French author Henri Beyle, authored “The Red and the
Black,” the story of a peasant who reaches for upward mobility through
the favors of two mistresses.
(WSJ, 3/15/08, p.W10)
1830 Charles Lyell published the
first edition of his "Principles of Geology."
(RFH-MDHP, p.70)
1830 The First Symphony by Berlioz
had its premiere.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.E1)
1830 In Pennsylvania George
Brinton began constructing a home later called Rondelay in Chadds Ford.
After extensive renovations the 6 bedroom home on 38.9 acres was listed
for sale in 1998 for $2.9 mil.
(WSJ, 4/3/98, p.W8)
1830 Andrew Jackson, seventh
President of the US, signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The act
banished the Cherokee and other eastern tribes to beyond the
Mississippi.
(NG, 5/95, p.78)
1830 Pres. Andrew Jackson
forced Thomas L. McKenney from his job as the 1st US superintendent of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Jackson disagreed with McKenney’s opinion
that “the Indian was, in his intellectual and moral structure, our
equal.”
(WSJ, 3/15/06, p.D16)
1830 Pres. Jackson named Roger
Brooke Taney as US Attorney General.
(WSJ, 11/21/06, p.D8)
1830 A year after leaving office
as the sixth president of the United States, the Plymouth district of
Massachusetts unexpectedly elected John Quincy Adams to the House of
Representatives, where he served until he suffered a stroke on the
House floor in 1848. He died two days later. Adams at the time enjoyed
the distinction of having been the only son to follow his father to the
presidency.
(HNQ, 5/31/01)
1830 Senator Daniel Webster said:
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
(WSJ, 9/30/97, p.A20)
1830 The USS Constitution (aka Old
Ironsides) was condemned as unseaworthy. The ship was saved by a poem
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Harvard anatomy professor, that stirred up
protests. "Oh, better that her shattered hulk / Should sink beneath the
wave..."
(SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.14)(SFC, 7/22/97,
p.A11)(SFC,10/24/97, p.E5)
1830 The US Naval Observatory in
Washington became the official timekeeper for the United States.
(WSJ, 10/17/95, B-1)
1830 Commercial bottling
operations for ketchup began in Boston.
(SFC, 8/27/03, p.E4)
1830 The yard was standardized at
36 inches. It had started out as the girth of a Saxon.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.D4)
c1830 The Bowie knife was first
introduced.
(WSJ, 11/9/98, p.A1)
1830 Samuel Morrill, a newspaper
printer, cooked up a new ink in his kitchen in Andover, Mass., forming
a company that ultimately become Sun Chemical. In 2004 it was the
largest maker of ink in the world.
(SFC, 7/26/04, p.F4)
1830 A Frenchman patented a sewing
machine.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)
1830 American alcohol consumption
reached 7.1 gallons per capita.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A28)
1830 The non-Indian population of
California was 4,256.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.4)
1830 There were 40 million buffalo
in the US at this time. By 1890 the number was reduced to 1,000.
(NH, 12/96, p.10)
1830 Richard Lander, British
explorer, completed Mungo Park’s journey down the Niger from Bussa to
the mouth of the river in 5 months.
(ON, 7/00, p.12)
1830 Henry Philip Hope, a London
banker, purchased the 45 carat blue diamond. It later began to be known
as the "Hope Diamond."
(THC, 12/3/97)(EB, 1993, V6 p.51)
1830 A Massachusetts spice trading
ship was seized by pirates in Sumatra. In 2001 "Drums of Quallah
Battoo: Salem Pepper Traders and Sumatran Pirates" by Charles P Corn
(d.2001) was to be published.
(SFC, 3/20/01, p.A19)
1830 1000 Albanian leaders were
invited to meet with an Ottoman general who killed about half of them.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1830 Mayor de San Andres,
Bolivia’s major university, was founded in La Paz.
(www.ddg.com/LIS/aurelia/boltou.htm)
1830 A French taxidermist stuffed
an African Bushman from Botswana and took the body to Europe for
exhibition. In 2000 the body was returned from a Spanish museum.
(WSJ, 10/5/00, p.A1)
1830 In Germany the Altes Museum
was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the center of Berlin.
(WSJ, 7/29/98, p.A13)
1830 In Germany Michael Thonet
(d.1871) started making bentwood furniture. He moved to Vienna in 1842
and in 1850 started making bentwood chairs for commercial use. His 5
sons joined the company and by 1856 it was known as Gebruder Thonet. In
1923 the company joined others to form Thonet-Kohn-Mundus and began
making tubular steel furniture. It moved its headquarters to the US in
1940 and is still in business.
(SFC, 9/4/96, z1 p.5)
1830 The Gran Colombia union
collapsed and Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela became independent
countries.
(AP, 11/24/02)
1830 Some sources say that the 1st
pizzeria opened in Naples about this time. [see 1889]
(SFCM, 4/18/04, p.16)
1830 The government of Peru
exempted guano from taxes. The commercial mining and export of the rich
fertilizer soon followed.
(www.newscotland1398.net/remem/cannonsndx.html)
1830 Nicholas I of Russia
ruthlessly repressed the insurrection in Poland.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A16)
1830-1835 Tocqueville published his Democracy in
America. In a democracy such as the United States, he said, private
associations are permitted by the central government to perform
quasi-governmental functions that take the brunt of governmental power
and protect the people like a great umbrella spread out against a
rainstorm. A nation without this crucial element in its makeup will be
a more terrible tyranny than the world has ever seen.
(V.D.-H.K.p.308)
1830-1837 Some 347 new banks were chartered in the
US. The value of real estate rose 150%.
(Panic, p.13,18)
c1830-1840 In St. Louis Henry Shaw made a fortune
outfitting westward bound wagon trains. He retired at 40 and began to
transform a wild prairie outside the city into magnificent gardens
known later as The Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw’s Garden).
(SFC, 10/12/97, p.T5)
c1830-1840 Wine production began in Hunter Valley,
north of Sydney
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.T6)
c1830-1840 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859),
English essayist, historian and politician, served as a member of the
British Supreme Council in India.
(www.britannica.com)(Econ, 10/30/04, p.48)
1830-1840 Hokusai (1760-1849) made his "Thirty-Six
Views of Mount Fuji during this decade. The wood blocks included "Under
the Wave of Kanagawa," "The Back of Mt. Fuji from Minobu River," and
"Winter Loneliness." The last was inspired by a poem of Minamoto no
Muneyuki Ason. Another series was titled "A Tour of Japanese
Waterfalls.
(SFC, 9/24/98, p.E3)
c1830-1840 Charles Wheatsone of London developed the
English concertina with a range of three chromatic octaves.
(BAAC, 8/96, p.6)
c1830-1840 Chair manufacturers started using metal
for chair parts.
(SFC, 4/1/98, Z1 p.7)
c1830-1840 Don Vincente, a former Spanish monk,
committed 8 murders for books owned by others.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.C5)
c1830-1840s The US Congress adhered to a gag rule
that prohibited any consideration of any petition regarding the status
of slavery or the slave trade on federal territory.
(WSJ, 7/29/96, p.A12)
c1830-1880s The art of creating a memorial wreath
from the hair of a departed loved one was a popular Victorian mourning
ritual.
(SFC,11/5/97, Z.1 p.3)
1830-1850 The Pennsylvania German community made
traditional hand-stitched show towels and most show towels date from
this period. They were hung on a door in the main room of a house.
(SFC,12/10/97, Z1 p.9)
1830-1859 Alfred King worked as a jeweler and
clockmaker in Chippenham, England, during this time. He signed his work
"A. King." His clocks fetch $2-3k.
(SFC, 7/9/97, Z1 p.3)
1830-1864 Private coins were manufactured in several
areas of the US.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, Par p.17)
1830-1867 Alexander Smith, Scottish poet and
essayist: "Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
(AP, 12/24/97)
1830-1877 Some 12,500 convicts were locked in
Tasmania during this period.
(SSFC, 1/23/05, p.E6)
1830-1895 Lothar Meyer, German chemist, independently
of Mendeleev discovered that if the chemical elements are arranged in a
sequence according to their atomic weights, various chemical properties
repeat periodically along the sequence.
(SCTS, p.54)
1830-1897 In Brazil Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel,
aka Antonio Conselheiro, was born in Quixeramobim, Ceara. He founded
the settlement of Canudos in Bahia that was destroyed by government
forces. [see 1896]
(SFC, 10/7/97, p.A14)
1830-1917 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, American
social reformer: "The glory of each generation is to make its own
precedents."
(AP, 6/28/99)
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