SHARMAN LAW
200 YEARS
1809 TO 2009
NOTABLE EVENTS 1809
MDCCCIX
MONARCH - King George III
‘German George’ the King - during his reign the United States declared their independence in 1776.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER – Duke of Portland until replaced by Spencer Perceval
Spencer Perceval was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated (in 1811)
U.S. PRESIDENT – Thomas Jefferson (3rd President) until replaced by James Madison (4th) on 4th March.
POPE – Pope Pius VII
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1809:-
Louis Braille – Inventor of the Braille reading system for the blind (January 4th)
Edgar Allan Poe – U.S. Author (The Pit & the Pendulum) (January 19th)
Felix Mendelssohn – (German Composer). (February 3rd)
Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the U.S.A. (February 12th)
Charles Darwin – Theory of Evolution author (February 12th)
Alfred Lord Tennyson – Poet Laureate (August 6th)
William Gladstone – British Prime Minister (December 29th)
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1809:-
Franz Joseph Haydn – Austrian Composer (May 31st)
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1809:-
11th February - Robert Fulton patents the Steamboat.
18th April - First running of the 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket – won by a horse called ‘Wizard’.
April/May - Napoleon defeats Austria at the battle of Abensberg, Bavaria and captures Vienna - Napoleon is excommunicated and imprisons the Pope.
24th May - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French Prisoners of War
18th September - Royal Opera House opens in London
16th December Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine
Undated - Nicholas Appert develops a method to preserve food by means of Canning.
ONGOING EVENTS
Napoleonic Wars (1799 – 1815)
Russo – Turkish War (1806 – 1812)
NOTABLE EVENTS 1834 (25TH ANNIVERSARY)
MDCCCXXXIV
MONARCH – King William IV
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER – Earl Grey until replaced by William Lamb, then Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, then Viscount Melbourne, (July 16th) and finally Sir Robert Peel (December 10th)
U.S. PRESIDENT – Andrew Jackson (7th).
POPE – Gregory XVI
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1834:-
17th March - Gottlieb Daimler – German engineer and inventor.
10th July - James McNeill Whistler – American painter (July 10th)
19th July – Edgar Degas – French Painter
4th August – John Venn – British Mathematician.
31st August – Amilcar Ponchelli – Italian Composer
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1834:-
25th July - Samuel Taylor Coleridge – English writer
2nd September - Thomas Telford – Scottish Engineer
9th September – James Weddell – Antarctic Explorer
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1834:-
24th July - End of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1st August - Slavery Abolished in the British Empire
15th August - South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
16th October - Palace of Westminster destroyed by fire.
NOTABLE EVENTS 1859 (50TH ANNIVERSARY)
MDCCCLIX
MONARCH: Queen Victoria
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Earl of Derby then Viscount Palmerston
U.S. PRESIDENT: James Buchanan (15th President)
POPE: Blessed Pius IX
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1859:
27th January - Wilhelm II of Germany (Kaiser Bill)
6th February - Elias Disney, farmer and father of Walt Disney
16th February - George Washington Gale Ferris Jr (Ferris Wheel)
8th March - Kenneth Grahame – Author
15th May - Pierre Curie – French Physicist
22nd May - Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle – Author
15th December - L. L. Zamenhof – initiator of international language (Esperanto)
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1859
15th September - Isambard Kingdom Brunel – Engineer
2nd December – John Brown – American abolitionist
16th December - Wilhelm Grimm – German writer (Brothers Grimm)
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1859
14th February - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. State
20th April - Charles Dickens publishes ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
25th April - First Ground broken for the Suez Canal.
21st May - Big Ben bell first activated
27th August - Edwin Drake drills the first Oil Well in the U.S. Titusville Pennsylvania
16th October - John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry Armoury in Virginia in an attempt to trigger a slave revolt - He is captured by troops under Colonel Robert E. Lee on October 18th and hanged on December 2nd ( ‘John Brown’s Body’).
24th November - Charles Darwin publishes ‘Origin of Species’
24th November – French launch La Gloire – First ever ocean-going iron clad warship.
NOTABLE EVENTS 1884 (75TH ANNIVERSARY)
MDCCCLXXXIV
MONARCH: Queen Victoria
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: William Gladstone
U.S. PRESIDENT: Chester Arthur (21st President)
POPE: Leo XIII
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1884:
13th March - Sir Hugh Walpole – Novelist
4th April - Isoroku Yamamoto –Japanese naval commander at Pearl Harbor
8th May - Harry S. Truman – 33rd President of United States
11th October – Eleanor Roosevelt – Wife of U.S. President F.D. Roosevelt
30th December - Tojo Hideki – Japanese Prime Minister in WWII
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1884:
12th May - Bedrich Smetana – Czech Composer
13th May - Cyrus McCormick – U.S. Inventor of grain harvester
1st July - Allan Pinkerton – American Detective Agency Founder
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1884:
1st January - Fabian Society founded in London
13th March - The siege of Khartoum begins (Ends on January 26th 1885)
22nd April - Colchester Earthquake UK’s most destructive ever.
5th August - Cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty laid.
2nd November - Timisoara is the first town in Europe with electric street lights
UNDATED EVENTS
Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
International Meridian Conference fixes Greenwich as World’s Prime Meridian
NOTABLE EVENTS 1909 (100TH ANNIVERSARY)
MCMIX
MONARCH: King Edward VII
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Herbert Asquith
U.S. PRESIDENT: Theodore Roosevelt (26th President) then William Taft (27th President)
POPE: St. Pius X
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1909:
15th January - Jean Bugatti – Automobile designer
15th January - Gene Krupa – American drummer
26th February - King Talal of Jordan
30th April - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
15th May – James Mason – British Actor
18th May - Fred Perry – Tennis player
20th May - Matt Busby – Football Manager
30th May - Benny Goodman – Musician
14th June – Burl Ives – American singer
20th June - Errol Flynn – Australian Actor
14th September - Peter Scott – Ornithologist and Painter
28th October – Francis Bacon – British Painter
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1909:
17th February - Geronimo – Apache Indian leader
17th December - King Leopold II of Belgium
NOTABLE EVENTS 1N 1909:
1st January - Old Age Pension Act (1908) comes into force in Britain
16th January - Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
6th April - Robert Peary reaches the North Pole (allegedly)
15th June – Imperial (Later International) Cricket Conference formed.
25th July - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel.
26th July - Work begins on anti-aircraft gun
12th August - First event held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
8th October - First Rugby match played at Twickenham
UNDATED EVENTS:
Building of the modern city of Tel Aviv begins (Then known as Ahuzat Bayit)
NOTABLE EVENTS 1934 – 125TH ANNIVERSARY
MCMXXXIV
MONARCH: King George V
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Ramsay McDonald
U.S. PRESIDENT: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd President)
POPE: Pius XI
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1934:-
20th January - Tom Baker - Actor (Dr. Who)
11th February - Mary Quant – Fashion Designer
11th February - John Surtees – Racing Car Driver
13th February - George Segal – American Actor
17th February - Barry Humphries – Australian actor & comedian
9th March - Yuri Gagarin – First man in space
3rd May - Henry Cooper – Boxer
9th May – Alan Bennett – Writer and Actor
20th September - Sophia Loren – Actress
28th September – Brigitte Bardot - Actress
9th December - Judi Dench – Actress
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1934:-
23rd February - Edward Elgar – Composer
23rd May - Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow - Gangsters (Bonnie & Clyde)
4th July - Marie Curie – Scientist
2nd August - Paul von Hindenburg – German General & Politician
NOTABLE EVENTS OF 1934:-
1st January - Alcatraz becomes a Federal prison
7th January - First Flash Gordon comic published (The Masters of Mars)
26th January – 10 year German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
19th April - Surgeon A. K. Wilson allegedly takes photograph of Loch Ness Monster
23rd May - Bonnie & Clyde ambushed and killed
9th June - First film featuring Donald Duck
2nd August - Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
19th September - The Soviet Union joins the League of Nations
28th September - Afghanistan joins League of Nations
29th September - Stanley Matthews makes his England football debut
16th October - The ‘Long March’ of the Chinese Communists begins
NOTABLE EVENTS 1959 – 150TH ANNIVERSARY
MCMLIX
MONARCH: Queen Elizabeth II
BRITISH RIME MINISTER: Harold MacMillan
U.S. PRESIDENT: Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President)
POPE: Blessed John XXIII
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1959:-
11th February – John McEnroe – Tennis Player
3rd May – Ben Elton – Comedian and writer
16th July – Kevin Spacey – Actor
14th August – Magic Johnson – Basketball player
7th October – Simon Cowell – Talent Show Judge
15th October – Sarah Ferguson – Duchess of York
5th November – Bryan Adams – singer
31st December – Val Kilmer – Actor
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1959:
21st January – Cecil B DeMille – Film Director
22nd January – Mike Hawthorn – Race Car Driver
3rd February – Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & The Big Bopper - singers (Plane Crash)
The event is marked as “The Day the Music Died” – popularized later by Don McLean’s song ‘American Pie’
26th March – Raymond Chandler - Writer
17th July – Billie Holliday – singer
7th October – Mario Lanza – Singer
14th October – Errol Flynn – Australian Actor
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1959:
3rd January – Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. State
16th February – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
19th February – Cyprus granted independence by the U.K.
9th March – The ‘Barbie Doll’ debuts
9th June – The USS George Washington launched – first ballistic missile submarine.
26th June – St. Lawrence Seaway Officially Opened
14th August – Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from space
13th September – First manmade object reaches the moon (Luna 2)
7th October – First ever pictures of far side of the moon (Luna 3)
2nd November – First section of motorway (M1) opens in U.K.
NOTABLE EVENTS 1984 – 175TH ANNIVERSARY
MCMLXXXIV
MONARCH: Queen Elizabeth II
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Margaret Thatcher
U.S. PRESIDENT: Ronald Wilson Reagan (40th President)
POPE: John Paul II
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 1984:
Darren Bent - Footballer – (February 6th)
Gareth Gates – Singer (July 12th)
Prince Harry – (September 15th)
Scarlett Johansson – American Actress (November 22nd)
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 1984
Johnny Weissmuller – Actor (Tarzan) & Swimmer – (January 20th)
Ethel Merman – Singer & Actress (February 15th)
Arnold Ridley – Playwright & Actor (Dad’s Army’s Mr Godfrey) (March 12th)
Marvin Gaye – American Singer (April 1st)
Tommy Cooper – Comedian (April 15th)
Count Basie – American musician (April 26th)
John Betjeman - Poet (May 19th)
Eric Morecambe – Comedian (May 28th)
Richard Burton – Actor (August 5th)
Leonard Rossiter – Actor/Comedian (October 5th)
Indira Ghandi – Indian Prime Minister (Assassinated) (October 31st)
NOTABLE EVENTS IN 1984
8th January – First Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
27th January – Michael Jackson sets fire to his hair filming a commercial for Pepsi
8th February – The Winter Olympics begin in Sarajevo
27th March – Opening Night for new musical ‘Starlight Express’
8th March – Soviet Union says it will boycott the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles
20th June – O-level and CSE exams are replaced by GCSE exams.
26th September – UK and China sign agreement to return Hong Kong to China.
12th October – Provisional IRA try to blow up British Government in Brighton Hotel.
4th November – Dell Computers founded as PC’s Limited.
25th November – Band Aid record ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’
3rd December – British Telecom is privatised.
NOTABLE EVENTS 2009 – 200TH ANNIVERSARY
MONARCH: Queen Elizabeth II
BRITISH PRME MINISTER: Gordon Brown
U.S. PRESIDENT: George Walker Bush (43rd) until January 20th then Barack Hussein Obama (44th)
POPE: Benedict XVI
NOTABLE BIRTHS IN 2009:
NOTABLE DEATHS IN 2009:
William Stone – Third last UK resident survivor from WWI (January 10th)
David Vine – Broadcaster (January 11th)
Patrick McGoohan – “The Prisoner” Actor (January 14th)
Danny La Rue – Female Impersonator (June 1st)
Michael Jackson – American Singer / Songwriter (June 25th)
Henry Allingham – Second last UK resident survivor from WWI and world’s oldest man (July 18th)
Henry (Harry) Patch – Last UK resident survivor from WWI (July 25th)
NOTABLE EVENTS
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