...Date... AGE Event
1846/--/-- 0 *** Bristow, Susannah [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1846/--/-- 0 *** Logan, James Richard - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1846/--/-- 0 - Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone in Paris.
1846/--/-- 0 - American dentist William Morton extracts a tooth using ether as an anesthetic.
1846/--/-- 0 - German astronomer Johann Galle makes the first observation of the planet Neptune.
1846/--/-- 0 - German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach publishes The Essence of Religion.
1846/--/-- 0 - Henry Creswicke Rawlinson deciphers the Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
1846/--/-- 0 - Iowa is inaugurated as the 29th state of the Union.
1846/--/-- 0 - Mexican War
1846/--/-- 0 - Mormon trek from Navoo to Salt Lake City
1846/--/-- 0 - Oregon boundary with Canada established at 49th parallel
1846/--/-- 0 - The Christy Minstrels begin performing in New York.
1846/--/-- 0 - The Mexican War begins over the U.S. annexation of Texas.
1846/--/-- 0 - The Mexican government collapses; Santa Anna is reelected as president.
1846/--/-- 0 - The Smithsonian Institution is created by Congress.
1846/--/-- 0 - The border between the U.S. and Canada is established, settling the Oregon Question.
1846/--/-- 0 - U.S. forces under Stephen Watts Kearny occupy New Mexico.
1846/--/-- 0 - U.S. forces under Zachary Taylor defeat the Mexicans at Palo Alto and Monterrey.
1846/--/-- 0 - Writer and artist Edward Lear publishes A Book of Nonsense.
1846/09/06 0 *** Bristow, Jesse Leven [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
1847/--/-- 1 - American missionary Marcus Whitman is killed by Cayuse Indians in Oregon.
1847/--/-- 1 - American oceanographer Matthew Maury publishes his first Wind and Current Charts.
1847/--/-- 1 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte publishes Wuthering Heights.
1847/--/-- 1 - English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray begins Vanity Fair.
1847/--/-- 1 - Honore de Balzac completes La Comedie humaine, a collection of over 100 novels.
1847/--/-- 1 - Italian statesman Cavour founds the liberal newspaper Il Risorgimento (resurgence).
1847/--/-- 1 - Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in America, discovers a new comet.
1847/--/-- 1 - Mormons and the Indians
1847/--/-- 1 - Scott enters Mexico City after a series of battles; Mexico sues for peace.
1847/--/-- 1 - Sir James Simpson uses chloroform for childbirth
1847/--/-- 1 - Taylor defeats Santa Anna's Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista.
1847/--/-- 1 - The African slave colony of Liberia is declared independent.
1847/--/-- 1 - The American Medical Association is founded.
1847/--/-- 1 - The Mormons under Brigham Young found Salt Lake City.
1847/--/-- 1 - The U.S. post office begins using adhesive postage stamps.
1847/--/-- 1 - U.S. forces under Stockton, Fremont and Kearny occupy California.
1847/--/-- 1 - U.S. forces under Winfield Scott land at Veracruz and advance on Mexico City.
1848/--/-- 2 *** Logan, William A. [Brother] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1848/--/-- 2 - A Czech uprising under Frantisek Palacky is suppressed by Austria.
1848/--/-- 2 - American engineer James Bogardus begins using cast-iron for building construction.
1848/--/-- 2 - February Revolution by French workers makes Louis Napoleon III President of 2nd Reublic
1848/--/-- 2 - Ferdinand I abdicates; Francis Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848/--/-- 2 - French Barbizon artist Theodore Rousseau paints the Forest at Fontainebleau.
1848/--/-- 2 - French author Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils) publishes his novel Camille.
1848/--/-- 2 - Gold discovered in California
1848/--/-- 2 - Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.
1848/--/-- 2 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
1848/--/-- 2 - Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1848/--/-- 2 - Louis Philippe abdicates; a Second Republic is declared in France.
1848/--/-- 2 - Mexican Cession
1848/--/-- 2 - Risorgimento leader Garibaldi returns to Italy to fight in the war of independence.
1848/--/-- 2 - Scottish physicist William Thomson Kelvin proposes an absolute temperature scale.
1848/--/-- 2 - The Austrian revolution begins in Vienna; chancellor Metternich resigns.
1848/--/-- 2 - The Revolutions of 1848 break out in Europe.
1848/--/-- 2 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ratifies the cession of California and New Mexico.
1848/--/-- 2 - The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill begins the California gold rush.
1848/--/-- 2 - The first U.S. women's rights assembly meets at the Seneca Falls Convention.
1848/--/-- 2 - Uprisings in Berlin force Frederick William IV to summon a constitutional assembly.
1848/--/-- 2 - Wisconsin is inaugurated as the 30th state of the Union.
1849/--/-- 3 *** Bristow, Adrian Jackson [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Francis Marion
1849/--/-- 3 *** Bristow, Miles [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1849/--/-- 3 - Amelia Bloomer publicizes bloomers (baggy trousers for women) in the Lily magazine.
1849/--/-- 3 - Austrian forces crush the Italian revolution; Mazzini and Garibaldi flee from Italy.
1849/--/-- 3 - Austrian premier Felix Schwarzenberg uses the Russian army to defeat the Hungarians.
1849/--/-- 3 - Black slave Harriet Tubman escapes and begins her Underground Railway work.
1849/--/-- 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to obtain a medical degree.
1849/--/-- 3 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand publishes Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb.
1849/--/-- 3 - French physicist Armand Fizeau measures the velocity of light.
1849/--/-- 3 - Lajos Kossuth declares Hungarian independence from Austria.
1849/--/-- 3 - Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin is deported to Siberia.
1849/--/-- 3 - Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th U.S. president; Fillmore becomes vice-president
1849/--/-- 3 - Zachary Taylor (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 4 *** Bristow, John [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1850/--/-- 4 *** Logan, Benjamin [Brother] - Born to Logan, John Allen and Bristow, Rebecca M. (Logan)
1850/--/-- 4 - Allan Pinkerton founds the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
1850/--/-- 4 - American author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter.
1850/--/-- 4 - American popular songwriter Stephen Foster publishes Camptown Races.
1850/--/-- 4 - California is inaugurated as the 31st state of the Union.
1850/--/-- 4 - Congress reinforces the Fugitive Slave Law for the return of escaped slaves.
1850/--/-- 4 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes her Sonnets From the Portuguese.
1850/--/-- 4 - English author Charles Dickens writes David Copperfield.
1850/--/-- 4 - French realist artist Gustave Courbet paints The Stone Breakers.
1850/--/-- 4 - Jenny Lind the Swedish nightingale begins her U.S. tour.
1850/--/-- 4 - Millard Fillmore (Whig) becomes president of the United States
1850/--/-- 4 - Nathanial Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter"
1850/--/-- 4 - Photographer Mathew Brady publishes The Gallery of Illustrious Americans.
1850/--/-- 4 - Plains Indians cede land in exchange for reservations
1850/--/-- 4 - President Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th U.S. president.
1850/--/-- 4 - The Compromise of 1850 establishes California as a non-slavery state.
1850/--/-- 4 - The Taiping Rebellion breaks out in China against the Ch'ing dynasty.
1850/--/-- 4 - The first issue of Harper's magazine is published.
1850/--/-- 4 - Utah and New Mexico Territories
1851/--/-- 5 - A gold rush begins in Victoria, Australia; Victoria becomes a separate colony.
1851/--/-- 5 - American author Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1851/--/-- 5 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is produced in Venice.
1851/--/-- 5 - Harriet Beecher Stowe begins publishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1851/--/-- 5 - Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones found the New York Times.
1851/--/-- 5 - Isaac Merrit Singer invents the first practical sewing machine.
1851/--/-- 5 - Jacob Fussell begins making ice cream in commercial quantities in Baltimore.
1851/--/-- 5 - Melville "Moby Dick"
1851/--/-- 5 - Mongkut (Rama IV) becomes king of Siam (Thailand).
1851/--/-- 5 - Singer patents sewing machine
1851/--/-- 5 - The Crystal Palace is built in London to house the Great Exhibition.
1851/--/-- 5 - The U.S. yacht America defeats 17 British yachts in the first America's Cup contest.
1851/--/-- 5 - The first college sorority is established at Wesleyan College, Georgia.
1852/--/-- 6 *** Bristow, Hannah (Harrison) (Davisson) [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/--/-- 6 *** Logan, Benjamin [Brother] - Died
1852/--/-- 6 *** Logan, James Richard - Died
1852/--/-- 6 *** Logan, John Allen [Brother] - Died
1852/--/-- 6 - Argentinean dictator Rosas is defeated by forces under Urquiza at Monte Caseros.
1852/--/-- 6 - Britain gains control of the Irrawaddy delta after the second Anglo-Burma War.
1852/--/-- 6 - The Grimms begin publication of their Deutsches Worterbuch (German Dictionary).
1852/--/-- 6 - The Second Empire begins in France under Napoleon III.
1852/08/13 6 *** Bristow, Margaret (Smith) [1st cousin once removed] - Died
1852/09/24 6 *** Bristow, Nancy Rebecca (Guthrie) [2nd cousin] - Born to Bristow, Ballard and Stockton, Mariah (Bristow)
In 1846 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
In 1846 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
In 1846 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1846 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1846 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1846 War Making was by:
Calvary
gun
Artillery
Submarine
In 1846 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:08