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Events:
January 13 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
February 11 - Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
February 17 - The British recognize the independence of the Orange Free State.
February 28 - The United States Republican Party is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
March 20 - The Boston Public Library opens to the public.
March 28 - Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia, to begin the
Crimean War.
March 31 - Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy, signs the Treaty/Convention of
Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to
American trade. (See History of Japan).
May 30 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the United States territory US
territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
July 6 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
July 13 - In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French
invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
September 20 - Crimean War: At the Alma, the Franco-English alliance wins the first battle
of the war.
October 17 - Newspaper The Age is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
October 25 - Crimean War: The Battle of Balaclava occurs, overall a victory for the allies, but
it included the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which only 200 of 700
men survive.
November 5 - Crimean War: Russians lose again at the Battle of Inkerman.
Frederick Augustus Albert succeeds to the throne of Saxony.
Stockholm, Wisconsin is founded by immigrants from Karlskoga, Sweden (cf 1252).
Chemistry Professor Benjamin Silliman, of Yale University is the first to fractionate petroleum
by distillation.
Abraham Pineo Gesner invents a process for extracting kerosene from coal.
Said Pasha succeeds his nephew Abbas as pasha of Egypt.
A Russian fort is established at the present site of Almaty.
Aurora, Ontario is first settled.
Spiegelthal excavates the tomb of Alyattes II.
The Ambrotype is introduced for photography.
Election of New York City mayor Fernando Wood begins the ascendancy of Tammany Hall.
Births:
January 15 -
Teunis Vreeswijk.
January 18 -
Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer.
January 26 -
Antonie Eland.
February 17 -
Friedrich Alfred Krupp, industrialist (+ 1902).
March 12 -
Kornelis Maller.
March 14 -
Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine 1908 (+ 1915).
March 14 - Thomas R. Marshall, US vice-president (+ 1925).
March 15 - Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901.
March 19 -
Marinus van den Houten.
May 11 - Albion Woodbury Small, US sociologist.
May 12 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
May 24 -
Marinus den Engelsman.
May 26 -
Aren van den Houten.
May 30 -
Willem van den Houten. Later: Willem van Houten.
May 31 -
Janna Christine Heyboer.
June 13 -
Kornelis van den Houten.
July 3 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer.
July 12 - George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera.
July 27 - Takahashi Korekiyo, Japanese prime minister (+ 1936).
July 28 -
Willem Tholenaars.
August 2 - Milan I, king of Serbia.
August 6 -
Johannes de Ronde.
August 27 -
Leentje Kwik.
September 28 -
Neeltje Willemina van den Houten.
October 16 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
October 20 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet.
November 21 - Pope Benedict XV (+ 1922).
November 30 -
Adrianus van Vliet.
December 22 -
Lena Aagtje Meerse.
December 23 - Victoriano Huerta, Mexican president.
December 24 - Thomas Stevens, world-circling bicyclist.
Diamond Bessie - prostitute and murder victim (+ 1877).
Edward Harkness - US philanthropist (+ 1940).
C. W. Post - cereal manufacturer (+ 1914).
Deaths:
January 21 -
Daniël de Vries.
March 13 -
Thomas Noon Talfourd, English jurist.
March 22 -
Willem van den Houten.
April 3 -
Adriana Kwik.
April 14 -
Teuntje van den Houten.
April 15 -
Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist.
July 7 -
Georg Ohm, German physicist.
July 15 -
Klazina van den Houten.
September 8 -
Angelo Mai, Italian cardinal and philologist.
September 27 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
September 28 -
Neeltje Willemina van den Houten.
November 5 -
Maria Kardux.
December 21 -
Leentje Kwik.
Abbas I, pasha of Egypt.
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