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14 de mar. de 2012 · On the morning of September 1, 1859, amateur astronomer Richard Carrington ascended into the private observatory attached to his country estate outside of London. After cranking open the dome’s ...
181. A Slave Auction (1859) The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week at the Race Course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children, and infants, being that half of the negro ...
A printer-friendly version is available here. John Brown’s final speech, 1859 | | On Sunday evening, October 16, 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a party of twenty-one men into the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intention of seizing the federal arsenal there. Encountering no resistance, Brown’s men seized the arsenal, an ...
Great Slave Auction. The Great Slave Auction (also called the Weeping Time [1]) was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia, United States, on March 2 and 3, 1859. Slaveholder and absentee plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler authorized the sale of approximately 436 men, women ...
1842 – The Dorr Rebellion: A civil war in Rhode Island. July 10, 1842 - January, 1843 – Attempted impeachment of President Tyler. 1843 – Emigrants begin their journey along the Oregon Trail. December, 1844 – Oregon passes its Black Exclusion Law. June 27, 1844 – Mormon leader, Joseph Smith Jr. assassinated.
30 de ago. de 2023 · On June 15, 1859, American farmer Lyman Cutlar walked outside of his home on San Juan Island, off the coast of what is now Washington state, and saw a pig rooting around in his potato patch. This wasn’t the first time he had seen such a thing, and Cutlar, fed up, shot the pig dead. Cutlar had received a land grant on the island as part of the ...
June 1, 1850 - The United States census of 1850 counts 23,191,876 population, a 35.9% increase from a decade before. Over three million people now live in its most populous state, New York. July 10, 1850 - Millard Fillmore is sworn into office as the 13th President of the United States after the death of Zachary Taylor the day before.
