Allen’s Place

POLITICS

• 1849 Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president.
• 1850  Zachary Taylor dies; Millard Fillmore becomes president.
• 1850 Taiping Rebellion occurs in China.
• 1851 Cuba declares its independence.

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• 1838 Charles Dickens writes Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
• 1839 The first baseball game is played in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1841 The first university degrees are granted to women in America.
• 1841 Adolph Sax invents the saxophone.



SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• 1839 Charles Goodyear discovers the process of vulcanization, making possible the commercial use of rubber.
• 1839 Carl August Steinheil builds the first electric clock.
• 1841 Scottish surgeon James Braid discovers hypnosis.

POLITICS:

• 1838 The Boers defeat the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River.
• 1839 The first Opium War breaks out between China and Britain.
• 1840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• Washington Irving writes The Alhambra, a series of stories about the Moors and Spainards.
• Zurich University is founded.
• Ando Hiroshige publishes his series Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.

“Power comes when you make life predictable for people.” By: Howard Stevenson

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• Washington Irving writes The Alhambra, a series of stories about the Moors and Spainards.
• Zurich University is founded.
• Ando Hiroshige publishes his series Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido.