This YEAR IN HISTORY.

waroff49 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 00:55:12 am

JUST TO BE PEDANTIC... Ned Kelly was not an Australian Bushranger. There was no such place as Australia in 1880. He was a Victorian Bushranger Not to be confused with the Victorian Bushranger's cricket team of latter fame.

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 01:09:40 am

To add to pedanticism, Tombstone was not in the USA in 1881, it did not become a State until 1912.

If it's wrong, blame Wikipedia, not me!

Are you implying that the entire Victorian cricket team should have been hung?

:shock:

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 01:44:28 am

1879

United States Geological Survey created

MargoZ · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 02:18:45 am

1878

Edison makes electricity available for household usage

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 08:24:55 am

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 08:29:12 am

I'm bad!!

To make amends

1877

first test match between England and Australia.
Australia wins by 45 runs!!

MargoZ · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 08:39:18 am

Nice recovery iomoon

1876

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey.

What a noble endeavour.....to attempt to organise knowledge to make it accessible....the essence of my profession

000 - Computer science, information, and general works
100 - Philosophy and psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social sciences
400 - Language
500 - Science
600 - Technology
700 - Arts and recreation
800 - Literature
900 - History and geography

kedwaven · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 08:45:05 am

1875
Captain Matthew Webb is the first person to swim the English Channel
London's main sewers built
Bizet's Carmen given first performance in Paris

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 09:06:31 am

Ouch!!

1874

Invention of barbed wire by Joseph Glidden

chazza · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:22:36 am

1873

Death of Explorer Dr David Livingstone

kedwaven · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:33:35 am

thought iomoon would have got this one :shock:

1872 The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

iomoon · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:43:40 am

I'm waiting for 1631 big Vesuvius eruption

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 19:15:10 pm

1871

Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless.

Who said cows can't have their 15 minutes of fame?

Norm

iomoon · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 00:08:08 am

You forgot to mention the association with the cow.
I know, millions don't.

1870

Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 00:13:22 am

1869

March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin

November 17 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

The Meiji Emperor of Japan accepts the surrender of the four most powerful clans (Chōshū, Tosa, Hizen and Satsuma) and reappoints the clan chiefs as Provincial Governors, on reduced revenues.

iomoon · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 02:03:26 am

1868

Frances Kidder became the last woman to be hanged in public in England when she was executed by William Calcraft at Maidstone on the 2nd of April 1868 for the drowning of her stepdaughter.

After the passing of the Capital Punishment within Prisons Act of 1868, all executions had to take place within the walls of county prisons.

Priscilla Biggadyke becoming the first to suffer this fate, later in that year.

iomoon · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 09:28:07 am

The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.

iomoon · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 09:34:10 am

Last should have been 1867.

1866

He, of a prize name, invents dynamite.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 21:12:47 pm

1865

Gregor Mendel formulates his theories of Mendelian inheritance- they are mainly ignored for years.

-The "father" of genetics, and the greater irony is that Charles Darwin never, ever read any of Mendel's papers.

Norm

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 21:46:32 pm

1864
August 13 - The first fish and chips shop opens in London.

August 22 - First Geneva Convention; International Red Cross is founded.

James Clerk Maxwell discovers microwaves

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 00:45:38 am

1863

Gettysburg

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicateâ€”we can not consecrateâ€”we can not hallowâ€”this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us â€” that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion â€” that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain â€” that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom â€” and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

MargoZ · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 02:02:18 am

1862

Americans fighting Americans

Meanwhile:

Claude Debussy born St. Germain-en-Laye

and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted the Turkish Bath:

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 02:15:39 am

1861

Victor Emmanuel assumes title of

King of Italy

MargoZ · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 02:30:05 am

1860

Still in Italy

A BIG year for Garibaldi, who:

departed from Quarto on the Expedition of the Thousand.

Battle of Catalafimi; troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war.

Garibaldi's forces take Palermo, the capital of Sicily.

The forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat royal Neapolitan forces at the Battle of Milazzo, near Messina. Nearly all of Sicily was now under Garibaldi's control.

Assisted by the British navy, the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.

Giuseppe Garibaldi's forces capture Naples.

Piedmontese forces invade the Papal States hoping to link up with Garibaldi in Naples.

Battle of Castelfidardo: The Piedmontese decisively defeat the Papal forces, allowing them to continue their march into Neapolitan territory.

Battle of the Volturno, Garibaldi defeats the last organized army of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

Garibaldi again defeats the Neapolitan forces, advancing on Gaeta, the last remaining Neapolitan strong-point.

Meeting of Teano - Giuseppe Garibaldi gives Naples to the king Victor Emmanuel II.

The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold.

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 02:33:40 am

Big Ben rings for the first time

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 02:42:34 am

1858

And for another bell.

Salvage of the Lutine bell, which is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 05:21:55 am

1857

Elisha Otis' first elevator is installed (at 488 Broadway, New York City).

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:12:49 am

1856

March - The Crimean War ends with the Treaty of Paris

October - The Palace of Westminster received its new bell and christened it "Big Ben" after the Director of Public works Sir Benjamin Hall (must have taken them 3 years to install it just like me and my doorbell :lol:

)

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:16:01 am

1855

Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of Britain
David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:26:58 am

1854

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:29:44 am

1853

Franklin Pierce elected 14th President of the United States of America
Russian aggression was directed at Turkey which leads to the outbreak of the Crimean War
In Britain Death duties were introduced
Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory in Britain
Queen Victoria was given chloroform during the birth of her seventh child
Wagner completes the text of Der Ring Des Nibelungen

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:41:49 am

1852

First British public toilet for women opens in Bedford Street, London.

Described as a Lulu.

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 06:54:15 am

1851

Gold discovered in Australia by Edward Hargraves

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:00:49 am

1850

Millard Fillmore becomes 13th President of the USA on the death of Zachary Taylor
R. W. Bunsen produces his gas burner
Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate on the death of William Wordsworth

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:08:20 am

1849

In a cabin, in a canyon,
An excavation for a mine;
Dwelt a miner, a Forty-niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling Clementine,
You are lost and gone forever,
Drefful sorry, Clementine.

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:10:17 am

1848

February - The French Revolution begins

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:15:14 am

1847

The Donner party eat each other in the Sierra Nevada.

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:16:43 am

1846

Robert Peel resigns after repeal of the Corn laws. Lord Russell becomes prime minister
Treaty of Lahore ends Sikh war
The sewing machine patented in the United States of America

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:20:59 am

1845

Quoth the Raven, nevermore

-

Edgar Allan Poe

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:26:11 am

1844
YMCA founded in England
First Public baths opened in Liverpool

at this rate ill get 1840 mmmm im sure something
of importance happened that year

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:35:36 am

1843

Was pretty boring, but

Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Gotta go someday!

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:42:51 am

1842

John Francis attempted to shoot Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill shouting " Damn the queen; why should she be such an expense to the nation :shock:

a queen an expense naaaah

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:51:05 am

1841

* Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion theorem

What a loss for the world and Karl Weierstrass!!!

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:52:33 am

1840

February 6 - Treaty of Waitangi, document granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.

And the obvious one---- Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha :lol:

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 07:58:23 am

Wot, no Penny Black?

1839

* In the United States, the first state law permitting women to own property is passed in Jackson, Mississippi.

And look where that led.
Next thing, they'll want shoes!![/b]

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 08:03:04 am

shoes

they want more than shoes now

1838

January 10 - a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 08:04:50 am

1837

Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ascends to the throne.

Got to get that one straight for Margo!

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 08:06:24 am

1836

Remember the Alamo

The Republic of Texas

kedwaven · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 08:09:03 am

1835

Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol - first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
February 20 - ConcepciÃ³n, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.

iomoon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 08:39:31 am

For Kedwaven

1834
Thomas Henderson appointed first astronomer-royal for Scotland.


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