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Anna Cora Mowatt |
Arts and
Literature |
Politics |
Science and
Philosophy |
| 1810 |
1819
Born in Bordeaux, France |
1815
First professional theatre group in the American West is established in
Frankfort, K.Y.
1816 Gas lighting is used
for the first time in the Chestnut Theatre
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1812
Siege of Moscow is lifted.
Battle of 1812 between U.S. and England
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1812
Georges Cuvier founds comparative vertabrate paleontology
1814 George Stephenson
constructs the first effective steam locomotive.
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| 1820 |
1825 Arrives in America
with Parents |
1820
Debut of actor Edwin Forrest
1821 Debut of actor Junius
Brutus Booth in Richmond, VA
1826 Opening of the Bowery
Theatre, NY
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1820
The Missouri Compromise
1823 The Monroe Doctrine
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1820 First
iron steamship is launched.
1821 Michael Faraday builds
the first electric motor.
1825 Erie canal opens
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| 1830 |
1834
Marries James Mowatt |
1833
St. Charles Theatre opens in New Orleans, LA |
1832
South Carolina threatens secession over the "Tariff of Abominations" |
1834
Cyrus McCormick patents the reaper
1837 Samuel B. Morse
invents the telegraph
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| 1840 |
1841
Publication of Gulzara, or the Persian Slave
Appears as a public
reader in Boston
1845
Fashion opens at the Park Theatre, New York
Debuts as an actress
at the Park Theatre
1847
E.L. Davenport and Mowatt sail for a theatrical tour of England
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1841
Dion Boucicault, London Assurance
1842 Lord Tennyson,
Morte d'Arthur and other Idylls
1844 Alexander Dumas, The
Three Musketeers
1847 Charlotte Bronte, Jane
Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
1849 Astor Place
Riot
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1847
England cedes the southern part of Oregon Country to US.
1848 "Year of
Revolutions" in Europe
Gold Rush begins
U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War
Women's Rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY
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1840
John William Draper photographs the moon.
1841 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
invents the carbon- zinc battery
1846 Christian Schonbein
invents gun-cotton
1847 Sir James Simpson uses
chloroform as an anaesthetic during childbirth
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| 1850 |
1851
James Mowatt dies. Six months later, Anna Cora returns to the
United States.
1853
Publication of Autobiography of an Actress
Retires from the stage
Marries William
Foushee Ritchie
1855
Publication of Mimic Life
1857
Publication of Twin Roses
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1850 Nathaniel
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
1851 Herman Melville,
Moby Dick
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1854 Opening of the New
Boston Theatre
Dion Bouicault appears in Grimaldi in Cincinnati
1855 H.W. Longfellow, Song
of Hiawatha
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1851
Louis Napoleon caries out a coup d'etat in order
to change the constitution of France
1854 Passage of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 The Supreme Court's
decision in the Dred Scott case renders the Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional.
1859
John Brown and followers seize the federal arsenal at
Harper's Ferry, VA
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1850
Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen invents the bunsen burner.
1851 Isaac Singer's first
sewing machine is built
1852 Elisha Otis installs
the first safety elevator
1859 Charles Darwin
publishes Origin of Species by Natural Selection.
Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in Titusville,
Pennsylvania
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| 1860 |
1860
Samuel G. Odgen (Mowatt's father) dies
Anna Cora sails for
England (leaving Ritchie)
1861
Publication of The Mute Singer
1861-63
Lives in Paris, France
1863-65
Lives in Florence, Italy
1865-70
Lives in England
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1860
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss
1861 Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
1862 Victor Hugo,
Les Miserables
1864 Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace
1865 Lewis
Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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1861 American Civil War begins
1863
Emancipation Proclamation
1865
Civil War ends
Actor John Wilkes Booth
assassinates President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia
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1861
Louis Pasteur develops the germ theory of disease
Pierre Michaux and his son Ernst construct the first
pedalled bicycle.
1865 First carpet sweeper
and mechanical dishwashers are constructed.
George Mendel proposes laws of heredity.
1866 Alfred Nobel invents
dynamite
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| 1870 |
1870
Dies in Twickenham, England |
1870
Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead |
1870
France declares war on Prussia |
1870
Zenobe Theophile Gramme invents the first practical generator for
direct current electricity. |
