1814 Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840 The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD.
1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.
1851 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.
1851 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.
1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa
1858 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union.
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar
1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1870 Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized
1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan recorded the coldest day on record in Saskatchewan -56.7 degrees Celsius
