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Special Events for the Year 1849 - back to GREGSITE

Born :05/27/1849"Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
Born :08/12/1849Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist
Born :11/28/1849Albert J-BJ Th˜s, Belgian colonial pioneer (Congo)
Born :11/29/1849Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
Born :01/22/1849August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist/novelist (Apologia)
Born :10/06/1849Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
Born :09/28/1849Dudley Allen Sargent, US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
Born :09/21/1849Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father & Son)
Born :09/01/1849Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
Born :12/11/1849Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (courageous wife)
Born :07/22/1849Emma Lazarus, poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty)
Born :07/19/1849F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
Born :11/24/1849Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden)
Born :05/02/1849Frst Bernhard HM von Blow, German chancellor/Prussian PM (1900-09)
Born :10/16/1849Geoirge Washington Williams, famous African
Born :05/05/1849Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
Born :12/19/1849Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
Born :12/28/1849Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck
Born :09/14/1849Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
Born :05/03/1849Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
Born :03/16/1849James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
Born :12/21/1849James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
Born :10/07/1849James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
Born :02/04/1849Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
Born :09/22/1849John Godden, English explorer (Cura‡ao)
Born :08/30/1849Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher
Born :04/24/1849Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
Born :02/13/1849Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
Born :03/07/1849Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist
Born :07/29/1849Max Nordau, [Sdfeld], German arts/writer/zionist leader
Born :04/21/1849Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
Born :01/11/1849Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (bath house)
Born :06/02/1849Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
Born :11/05/1849Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
Born :09/03/1849Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
Born :06/29/1849Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
Born :01/18/1849Sir Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
Born :08/29/1849Titus A J van Asch van W˜ck, governor Suriname (1891-97)
Born :07/12/1849William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
Born :05/06/1849Wyatt Eaton, artist




Died :05/28/1849Anne Bront‚, novelist, dies
Died :07/28/1849Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies
Died :05/02/1849David H Chass‚, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
Died :09/03/1849Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies
Died :10/07/1849Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Balt at 40
Died :10/17/1849Fr‚d‚ric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies
Died :10/16/1849George Washington Williams, Penns, 1st major black historian
Died :06/15/1849James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 53
Died :09/25/1849Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
Died :04/03/1849Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Father of Bacteria), dies at 39
Died :05/10/1849Katsushuka Hokusai, artist, dies
Died :10/06/1849Louis count of Barrthy nyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43
Died :08/02/1849Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
Died :02/15/1849Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistics curve), dies
Died :11/13/1849William Etty, English painter (nudist), dies at 62
Interest:10/06/1849[RC-US] Memorial of Bl Marie-Rose Durocher, Canadian virgin (opt)




Special :11/15/18491st US poultry show opens in Boston
Special :09/13/18491st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
Special :12/21/18491st US skating club formed (Phila)
Special :02/28/18491st boatload of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
Special :12/14/18491st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
Special :09/19/18491st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
Special :03/12/18491st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
Special :09/29/18491st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
Special :09/10/18491st performance of US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
Special :02/18/18491st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
Special :04/12/1849A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #10 Hygiea
Special :03/10/1849Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
Special :10/16/1849Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Special :03/23/1849Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
Special :10/16/1849British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
Special :09/03/1849Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
Special :09/01/1849California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
Special :03/31/1849Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
Special :03/03/1849Congress authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
Special :01/31/1849Corn Laws abolished in Britain
Special :06/05/1849Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
Special :10/19/1849Elizabeth Blackwell became 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
Special :05/17/1849Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
Special :07/02/1849Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
Special :06/12/1849Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
Special :03/03/1849Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted
Special :12/06/1849Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
Special :08/09/1849Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
Special :04/13/1849Hungarian Republic proclaimed
Special :03/27/1849Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
Special :04/16/1849M DeGasparis discovers 10th asteroid, Hygeia [or 0412]
Special :07/28/1849Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
Special :01/23/1849Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
Special :08/19/1849NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
Special :04/16/1849Opera "Il Profeta" is produced (Paris)
Special :05/29/1849Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
Special :01/23/1849Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
Special :11/13/1849Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
Special :05/15/1849Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
Special :02/09/1849Roman Republic declared
Special :04/10/1849Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $100
Special :07/08/1849St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
Special :06/22/1849Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif
Special :03/03/1849Territory of Minnesota organized
Special :03/03/1849US Department of the Interior established by Congress
Special :02/04/1849University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
Special :01/13/1849Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
Special :12/18/1849William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope

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