Page 4: Historical Events In 1849

Jun 27   Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer and expert/columnist.   

Jun 29   Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia.   

Jul 02   Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike.   

Jul 03   The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification   

Jul 08   St Paul's Place in the Bronx named.   

Jul 12   William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)   

Jul 15   Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer.   

Jul 19   F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian.   

Jul 20   Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield   

Jul 22   Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty).   

Jul 23   Geza Zichy, composer   

Jul 28   Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies.   

Jul 28   Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY   

Jul 28   Memmon is inaugural clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY   

Jul 31   Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon.   

Aug 02   Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies.   

Aug 09   Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria and Russia.   

Aug 12   Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist.   

Aug 12   Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88   

Aug 18   Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer   

Aug 19   NY Herald reports gold discovery in California   

Aug 22   The inaugural air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.   

Aug 26   Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66   

Aug 27   Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno).   

Aug 28   Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence.   

Aug 29   Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)   

Aug 30   Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher   

Sep 01   California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.   

Sep 01   Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents and Teachers).   

Sep 03   Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey.   

Sep 03   Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies   

Sep 03   Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)   

Sep 10   1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)   

Sep 10   Edwin Booth, later to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln, makes his acting debut.   

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Jan 09   John hartley: English tennis player, double winner of wimbledon    

Jan 11   Oskar lassar: German dermatologist (bath house)   

Jan 12   Jean béraud: French painter   

Jan 18   Edmund barton: 1st pm of australia (1900-03)   

Jan 22   August strindberg: Sweden, dramatist/novelist (apologia)   

Feb 02   Pavol országh hviezdoslav: Slovak poet    

Feb 04   Jean richepin: French poet/writer (les chansons de gueux)   

Feb 13   Lord randolph churchill: England, politician, winston's father   

Jan 09   Jan kops: Dutch agriculturist/vicar,    

Jan 16   Wilhelm m l de wette: German theologist,   

Jan 26   Thomas lovell beddoes: English poet (death's jest-book), suicide at 45   

Feb 08   France preseren: Slovenian poet (sonetni venec),   

Feb 09   Corneille vander planken: Composer,    

Feb 13   Christian rummel: Composer,   

Feb 15   Pierre f verhulst: Belgian mathematician (logistic curve),   

Feb 22   Alexander ernst fesca: Composer,