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| 1 | 1822 | - 1822: The last public whipping is carried out in Edinburgh
- 1822: Britain repeals the death penalty for over 100 crimes
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| 2 | 1823 | - 1823: Joseph Smith, Jr. says that he was directed by God through the angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates are stored.
He was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, also known as Mormonism.
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| 3 | 1824 | - 1824: The name Australia, recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, is finally adopted as the official name of the country once known as New Holland.
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| 4 | 1825 | - 1825: The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
- 1825: The City of Brisbane is founded.
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| 5 | 1826 | - 1826: University College London is founded, under the name University of London.
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| 6 | 1827 | - 1827: Englishman John Walker invents the first friction match which he names Lucifer
- 2 Mar 1827: Jan Nijhuis(Niehuis) passes away in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 7 | 1828 | - 8 May 1828: Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1910)
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| 8 | 1829 | - 1829: The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western 'third' of the Australian landmass for the British.
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| 9 | 1830 | - 1830: The independence of Belgium is recognized by the Great Powers
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| 10 | 1831 | - 1831: Charles Darwin embarks on his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle.
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| 11 | 1832 | - 1832: The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. Thus begins the History of modern Greece.
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| 12 | 1833 | - 1833: The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom (enacted 1834).
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| 13 | 1834 | - 1834: The South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
- 1834: The Sixth Xhosa War is characterized by severe clashes between white settlers and Bantu peoples in Cape Colony; Dutch speaking settlers colonize the area north of Orange River.
- 20 Feb 1834: Hermina Nijhuis passes away in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 14 | 1835 | - 1835: Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.
- Jun 1835: The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner
- 2 Jul 1835: Johannes Nijhuis is born in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 15 | 1836 | - Feb 1836: The Alamo is surrounded by Santa Anna's army, in a 13-day ordeal.
- Feb 1836: Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
- Mar 1836: The Battle of the Alamo ends; 189 Texans are slaughtered by about 1,600 Mexicans
- Oct 1836: Charles Darwin returns to Britain aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution
- 14 Oct 1836: Frederikus Nijhuis is born in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 16 | 1837 | - 1837: Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype
Daguerreotype is a direct photographic process without the capacity for duplication.
- 12 Jan 1837: Anna Elizabeth Dik is born in Altenberge, Kreis Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deustschland.
- May 1837: Samuel Morse patents the telegraph
- Jun 1837: Queen Victoria accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom
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| 17 | 1838 | - 1838: Women in Pitcairn are the first in the world to obtain and maintain the right to vote.[
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| 18 | 1839 | - 1839: The world's first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line, from Paddington Station to West Drayton
- 1839: The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom
- 18 Dec 1839: Mannes Stegehuis passes away in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 19 | 1840 | - 1840: One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded.
- 1840: British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding Wellington
- 1840: The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage.
- 1840: Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
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| 20 | 1841 | - Jan 1841: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 75,000.
- Oct 1841: A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage
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| 21 | 1842 | - 1842: In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.
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| 22 | 1843 | - 1843: The world's first commercial Christmas cards are printed by Sir Henry Cole in London.
- May 1843: The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
- Dec 1843: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published.
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| 23 | 1844 | - 1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber
- 1844: George Williams founds the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in London
- 27 Nov 1844: Joanna Nijhuis passes away in Borne, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 24 | 1845 | - 1845: The Great Irish Famine begins, as the potato crop fails.
- Mar 1845: The rubber band is invented in England.
- 1 Apr 1845: Johan Wilhelm Dik is born in Altenberge, Kreis Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deustschland.
- 8 May 1845: Johanna Christina Veltrop is born in Slagharen, Hardenberg,Overijssel, Nederland.
- Jul 1845: Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
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| 25 | 1846 | - 1846: The Royal Geographical Society awards Paweł Edmund Strzelecki a Gold Medal "for exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia".[
- 1846: The Saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
- 1846: Rotary printing press invented, making rapid printing of newspapers possible.
- 30 May 1846: Gezina Schopman is born in Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 26 | 1847 | - 1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S government.
- 1847: Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre under the pen name of Currer Bell.
- 1847: Emily Brontë publishes Wuthering Heights under the pen name of Ellis Bell.
- 1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
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| 27 | 1848 | - 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- 1848: Great Britain's first public health law, which creates a national health board and gives cities broad authority to build modern sanitary systems, is passed.
- 1848: One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.
- 9 Jul 1848: Gerrit Jan Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 28 | 1849 | - 1849: Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
- 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
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| 29 | 1850 | - 1850: American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
- 1850: The Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
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| 30 | 1851 | - 1851: Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia.
- 1851: The Reuters news service is founded.
- 6 Feb 1851: Bush Fires in Australia.
"Black Thursday" as bushfires rage from Mount Gambier to Melbourne. Fires covered a quarter of what is now the state of Victoria, approximately 50,000 km². Areas affected include Portland, the Plenty Ranges to the north of Melbourne, Westernport, the Wimmera and Dandenong districts. Approximately 12 people died, one million sheep and thousands of cattle were lost.
- 2 Aug 1851: Gold is first discovered in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, leading to the Victorian gold rush.
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| 31 | 1852 | - 1852: Anti-Chinese riots occure in Victoria, Australia.
- Feb 1852: The HMS Birkenhead sinks near Cape Town, South Africa. Only 193 of the 643 on board survive after troops stand firm on the deck so as not to flood the lifeboats containing women and children.
- 24 May 1852: Bieuwkje Jannes Lodenstein is born in Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland.
- 28 May 1852: Jan Stegehuis passes away in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
- 8 Nov 1852: Durk Kornelis Postma is born in Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
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| 32 | 1853 | - 1853: The first true International Meteorological Organization is established in Brussels, Belgium.
- 1853: The Bendigo Petition, 30 metres long with at least 23,000 signatures requesting reform of the license fee system that applied to miners on the gold fields, was sent to Governor La Trobe in Melbourne, Australia.
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| 33 | 1854 | - 1854: Ignacy Lukasiewicz drills the world's first oil well in Poland, in Bóbrka near Krosno.
- Mar 1854: Australia's first telegraph line, linking Melbourne and Williamstown, opens.
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| 34 | 1855 | - 1855: David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- Jun 1855: The Daily Telegraph begins publication.
- Sep 1855: Queen Victoria signs an Order-in-Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
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| 35 | 1856 | - 1856: Pre-human remains are found in the Neanderthal valley in Germany.
- Jan 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
- Apr 1856: At a public meeting in Melbourne, Dr Thomas Embling repeated the slogan "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest".
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| 36 | 1857 | - 1857: In Victoria, Australia one adult male in 7 is Chinese.
- Mar 1857: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War (the ruling is not overturned until the 14th Amendment in 1868).
- Dec 1857: Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada.
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| 37 | 1858 | - 11 Feb 1858: The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to St Bernadette of Lourdes.
- Aug 1858: The first claimed Australian rules football match is held between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College.
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| 38 | 1859 | - Apr 1859: Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
- Jun 1859: The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.
- Sep 1859: The clock Big Ben becomes operational in London.
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| 39 | 1860 | - 1860: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany is annexed to the newly Kingdom of Italy.
- 6 Nov 1860: U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
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| 40 | 1861 | - Feb 1861: The Confederate States of America are formed.
- Nov 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America
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| 41 | 1862 | - 1862: Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, on a rowing boat trip on The Isis, from Oxford to Godstow.
- 1862: Anna Leonowens accepts an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam.
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| 42 | 1863 | - 1863: The first section of the London Underground Railway (Paddington to Farringdon Street) opens
- 1863: Adam Opel founds Opel AG.
- 1863: Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
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| 43 | 1864 | - 1864: The first fish and chips shop opens in London
- 1864: First Geneva Convention: The International Red Cross is founded
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| 44 | 1865 | - 1865: The Christian Mission, later renamed the Salvation Army, is founded in Whitechapel, London by William and Catherine Booth.
- 4 Mar 1865: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term; Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President
- 14 Apr 1865: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth.
- 4 Jun 1865: Harm Hendrik Stegehuis is born in Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland.
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| 45 | 1866 | - 1866: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Germany
- 1866: The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
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1833 - 1866 (33 years)
