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1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries 
1822 Census shows Upper Canada has 120000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500000
1822 Wilhelm Rust, composer.
1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1829 Eduard de Hartog, composer
1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism
1834 South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there.
1839 Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY).
1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty and Beast).
1848 M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1848 Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88.
1851 [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92.
1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
1856 J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament.
1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins.
1858 Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
1861 Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO
1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars.
1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners.
1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
1865 Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed.
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1872 Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert.
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast).
1876 US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1876 Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist.
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