[Last updated 12 Oct 2003]

DIARY

Events outside Glapthorn
1841   *Britain occupies Hong Kong*Oregon Trail opens*Ross Ice barrier sighted
1842   *French occupy Tahiti*Massacre in Khyber Pass*Name dinosaur first used
1843   *Britain conquers Sind*Natal becomes British colony*Morse code first used
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1845   *Texas annexed by USA*Brunel's Great Britain crosses Atlantic*Irish potato famine
1846   *Maoris revolt in NZ*Corn Laws repealed*Neptune discovered
1847   *Bronte's Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights published
1848   *Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto*French Second Republic
1849   *Californian Gold Rush*Britain annexes Punjab
1850   *California joins USA*Tennyson Poet Laureate
1851   *Great Exhibition in London*Melville publishes Moby Dick
1852   *Napoleon III takes power*Britain annexes Burma*Airship over Paris
1853   *Crimean War*Cayley flies first glider*"Black ships" open up Japan
1854   *Florence Nightingale nurses in Scutari*Boole invents symbolic logic
1855   *Bunsen invents his burner*Britain at peace with Afghanistan
1856   *Bessemer process makes cheap steel*Pasteur invents microbiology
1857   *Indian Mutiny*Britain takes over India from East India Company
1858   *France conquers Vietnam*Great Eastern lays first Transatlantic cable
1859   *Darwin publishes Origin of Species*First oilwell drilled in USA
1860   *Britain and France occupy Peking*Confederacy formed by Southern States
1861   *American Civil War begins*Maoris still revolting
1862   *Bismark PM of Prussia*First plastic made*Gatling invents machine gun
1863   *USA abolishes slavery*TNT invented*Football Association founded
1864   *Sherman marches through Georgia*Siemens develops open-hearth method
1865   *Confederate forces surrender*Lincoln assassinated by Booth
1866   *Alice in Wonderland published*Gregor Mendel studies inheritance
1867   *Transportation to Australia ended*USA purchases Alaska*Dynamite invented
1868   *Marx publishes Das Kapital*Klu Klux Klan formed*Rules of boxing laid down
1869   *Suez Canal opened*Periodic Table of Elements by Mendeleyev*Celluloid produced
1870   *Franco-Prussian War*
1871   *Paris Commune*Britain annexes South African diamond fields*Rugby Union begins
1872   *Albert Memorial completed*FA cup begins
1873   *Maxwell discovers laws of Electromagnetic radiation
1874   *Britain annexes Fiji*Hardy publishes Far from the Madding Crowd
1875   *Gilbert and Sullivan produce their first opera
1876   *General Custer's cavalry destroyed by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
       *Otto introduces four-stroke engine*Bell invents telephone*W.G.Grace scores 300+
1877   *Edison invents phonograph*Swan Lake premiers*First Test Match
1878   *Serbia becomes independent*Cathode rays discovered
1879   *Zulu wars begin*Edison invents Electric light bulb*
1880   *Pitt-Rivers develops stratigraphy in archeology
1881   *Boer War begins
1882   *Koch isolates tuberculosis bacillus
1883   *Statue of Liberty built*
1884   *Maxim invents his machine gun*Mark Twain publishes Huckleberry Finn
1885   *Fall of Khartoum*Daimler creates motorbike*Benz pioneers motorcar
1886   *Linotype machine developed
1887   *Radio waves predicted by Herz
1888   *Movie camera and celluloid film patented
1889   *Eiffel tower built*Milky Way photogrphed
1890   *Lister demonstrates Antiseptic surgery*Underground opened in London
1891   *Lilienthal pilots glider*Rayon invented