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Ireland - Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people in two years
UK - There are reckoned to be 210 accountants in London
UK - General Enclosure Act, further enclosure prohibited
USA - James Polk president of the USA to 1849.
USA - American Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
India - Conquest of Punjab and Kashmir (to 1849)
UK - Charles Darwin wrote, but didn't publish, an essay presaging the theory of the origin of species.
USA - Samuel Finley Breese Morse demonstrates a telegraph, using a code of his own invention
UK - Parliament passes the Bank Charter Act
Yorkshire, UK - Foundation of the Rochdale Co-Operative Society - Chartist and Owenite workers of Rochdale open Rochdale Pioneers Store (cooperative) in Toad (T'owd) Lane
UK - Two years of railway mania begins across Britain. Massive investment and speculation leads to the laying of 5,000 miles of track
UK - Englishman John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
UK - Ten Hours Bill limited working hours for women and youths in textile business to 10 hours/day, passes thanks to Lord Shaftesbury's efforts during period to 1847
UK - Alexander Bain (1818-1903) invented an early fax machine
UK - About 2000 miles of railway lines now laid
UK - First Christmas card
UK - First UK public telegraph lines, from Paddington to Slough and Gosport to London
UK - Lord Shaftesbury's Mines Act forbids underground work for women and children under 10
China - Hong Kong annexed
UK - Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
UK - The first British Census recording the names of the populace is undertaken.
UK - The Tories come to power. Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
USA - William Henry Harrison president of the USA. He succumbed to pneumonia in 1841.
USA - John Tyler president of the USA to 1845. He is the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
UK - Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
UK - There are reckoned to be 107 accountants in London
New Zealand - New Zealand annexed
UK - Englishman John Herschel invents the blueprint.
Australia - During period to 1853 convicts are still sent to Tasmania at the rate of about 4,000 per year
UK - Queen Victoria begins dressing the princes in kilts and sailor suits.
USA - First use of OK in print (in Boston Morning Post)
UK - William Henry Fox-Talbot produces photographs from negatives
France - Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
USA - Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
UK - Welshman Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
UK - First railway timetable published by Quaker Bradshaw
China - The Opium Wars until 1842, Britain forces China to take European goods
UK - The Anti-Corn Law League is established. Publication of the People's Charter. The start of Chartism
UK - Births, deaths and marriages must be registered by law
UK - Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist, drawing attention to Britain's poor.
UK - Death of William IV
USA - Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
UK - English schoolmaster Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
UK - Victoria I, ruler of England to 1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III
USA - Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
South Africa - Boers leave British South Africa in search of independence on Great Trek (to 1840)
UK - Parliament passes the Municipal Reform Act, requiring members of town councils to be elected by ratepayers and councils to publish their financial accounts
UK - Commercial boom. 'Little' railway mania across Britain starts and continues into 1836
UK - Englishman Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
UK - Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
UK - Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
UK - Charles Babbage designed a programmable mechanical calculating machine, or 'analytical engine,' that could carry out arithmetic operations specified on punch cards and choose the sequence of operations. Although the design was never built, Augusta Ada Byron wrote programs to demonstrate its potential power.
UK - Robert Owen founds the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union. The government acts against 'illegal oaths' in such unionism, resulting in the Tolpuddle Martyrs being transported to Australia
London, UK - Fire destroys the Palace of Westminster
UK - New Poor Law Act, object to make life in the workhouse far worse than in fields and factories
USA - Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
USA - Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
UK - Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Empire.
UK - Parliament passes the Factory Act, prohibiting children aged less than nine from working in factories, and reducing the working hours of women and older children
UK - Start of the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church
UK - The first or Great Reform Act is passed. This climax of a period of political reform extends the vote to a further 500,000 people and redistributes Parliamentary seats on a more equitable basis
UK - House-breaking, sheep-stealing and forgery removed from list of capital crimes in England
UK - Commission created to look into inhumanity of transporting prisoners to Australia, another in 1837, transportation to New South Wales finally stops in 1840
USA - Texas Revolutionary War: Texas vs Mexico 1832-1836.
UK - Age of Coal and Iron or The Railway Age, dooms canals and stage coaches during period to 1867. Leaders are mostly Quakers of Midlands and North: Peases, Croppers, Sturges
UK - Michael Faraday, in the first in a series of Experimental Researches in Electricity, discovered the means of producing electricity from magnetism, i.e., electromagnetic induction, the generation of an electric field by a changing magnetic field. This is the principle of the dynamo
UK - Swing Riots' in rural areas against the mechanization of agricultural activities.
UK - The new London Bridge is opened over the River Thames
UK - Population of England and Wales now 14 million
UK - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
UK - Death of George IV
UK - Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
UK - First major cholera epidemic in Britain starts and lasts two years.
Australia - Free migrants to Australia = 1500, by 1841 = 32,000
UK - Starving field labourers in southern counties riot for higher wages, 19 hanged, 481 deported to Australia
France - B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
UK - William IV, ruler of England to 1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
UK - Royal Commission finds that mail coach average speed is 9 miles per hour
UK - Parliament passes the Catholic Relief Act, ending most restrictions on Catholic Civil Rights. They are allowed to own property and run for public office, including parliament
UK - Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Force, constables become known as bobbies
USA - Andrew Jackson president of the USA to 1837.
USA - William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
France - Louis Braille invents braille printing.
UK - The Duke of Wellington becomes British Prime Minister
UK - Printing press can now print 4-5000 copies/hour, 11.5 million copies of newspapers pour over Britain
UK - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
UK - John Walker invents modern matches.
France - One of the first print references to fondue written by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in his Physiologie du Gout
France - Physicist Joseph Niepce makes the first known photograph, View from a Window at Gras, via a heliograph process on a metal plate.
UK - Nash reconstructs Buckingham Palace.
UK - Trade Unions are legalized.
UK - Commercial depression in Britain
UK - The world's first railway service, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
USA - John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
UK - William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
Settlement of Canada, Australia and New Zealand begins in earnest over the next 25 years
UK - The National Gallery is established
UK - Commercial boom in Britain
UK - Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
UK - Englishman Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
UK - The Royal Academy of Music is established in London.
UK - The British Museum is extended and extensively rebuilt to house an expanding collection
UK - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
France - First prototype Espresso machine
Ireland - Famine in Ireland prompts migration to US and Canada
UK - Jean François Champollion, employing the Rosetta Stone, established the principles for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics.
UK - Queen Caroline is excluded from the coronation
UK - Start of two years of famine in Ireland
UK - A radical plot to murder the Cabinet, known as the Cato Street Conspiracy, fails
UK - Trial of Queen Caroline, in which George IV attempts to divorce her for adultery
UK - Death of George III, blind and insane
UK - London's population estimated at 1,274,000
UK - Government finances scheme to send out 6,000 settlers to Cape in South Africa
UK - George IV, ruler of England to 1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
UK - Troops intervene at a mass political reform meeting in Manchester, killing and wounding four hundred people at the 'Peterloo Massacre'
UK - Singapore founded as free trade port
UK - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
UK - Mary Shelley publishes her Frankenstein
India - Britain defeats Maratha, now effective ruler of India
UK - Economic slump in Britain leads to the 'Blanketeers' March' and other disturbances
USA - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
UK - Violation of game laws can result in seven years transportation
Belgium - Duke of Wellington trounces the French at Waterloo with timely help of Blucher (Prussia)
Elba, France - Napoleon escapes, leads French in war once more
Europe - Peace is established in Europe at the Congress of Vienna.
UK - The Corn Laws are passed by Parliament to protect British agriculture from cheap imports
UK - Start of two-year commercial boom in Britain
UK - England has now 2600 miles of canals, 500 in Scotland and Ireland; China clippers take 109 days to sail 15000 miles from Canton to English Channel; Britain's population estimated at 13 million; Britain imports 82 million pounds of raw cotton, by 1860 1000 million pounds; coal output 16 million tons (30 miillion by 1835, 50 million by 1848)
UK - Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
UK - Over the next fifteen years, five new states are founded along Mississippi Valley, mostly due to people fleeing Depression; more go to Canada, as many as 20,000 some years, frequently Scots
France - Napoleon abdicates, exiled to Isle of Elba
UK - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
UK - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
Germany - Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
UK - The first plastic surgery is performed
UK - Canned food was invented for the British Navy by Peter Durand. The cans were made of solid iron and usually weighed more than the food inside them
UK - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.
India - The monopolies of the East India Company are abolished
Portugal - British victory at Battle of Vittorio
UK - 2300 power looms in use, by 1833 - 100,000
USA - Creek War: United States vs Creek Indians 1813-1814.
France - Georges Cuvier, in Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, maintained the stratigraphic succession proved that fossils occur in the chronological order of creation: fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.
UK - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated in the House of Commons by a disgruntled bankrupt
Russia - Napoleon attacks Russia, defeated
London, UK - Cylinder Printing press invented and adopted by The Times
USA - War of 1812: United States vs Great Britain 1812-1815.
UK - Depression caused by Orders of Council.
UK - George III's illness leads to his son, the Prince of Wales, becoming Regent
UK - Ned Ludd leads rioters who smash machinery, burn factories, followers known as Luddites
UK - Birth rate falls all over England during the next 20 years
UK - Final illness of George III begins
Germany - Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
UK - Over the next decade the death rate in England and Wales reaches 21.1 in 1000
UK - Two-year commercial boom in Britain
USA - James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
UK - Sir Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
UK - Grain famine each of the years to 1812
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  • 1776: England - Common Sense published by Tom Paine
  • 1776: Great Britain - Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, advanced the idea that businesses survive through successful trading in pursuit of their self-interest, and that the resulting equilibrium was not by design.
  • 1776: Great Britain - Wilkes introduces bill for universal male suffrage
  • 1776: Great Britain - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
  • 1776: Great Britain - Edward Gibbon authors Decline and Fall of Roman Empire in period to 1788
  • 4 Jul 1776: USA - The American Congress passes their Declaration of Independence from Britain.
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  • 1779: Great Britain - The rise of Wyvill's Christopher Wyvill's radical Yorkshire Association Movement
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  • 1781: Great Britain - Frederick William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus by its movement, although at the time he supposed it to be a comet
  • 1781: Great Britain - Matthew Boulton and James Watt produce an improved steam engine with rotary motion achieving significant impact - it means that manufacturers are no longer restricted to site with natural power (i.e., water, wood for charcoal)
  • 17 Oct 1781: USA - The Americans obtain a great victory of British troops at the Siege of Yorktown
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  • 1782: Ireland - Ireland obtains short-lived parliament
  • 22 Mar 1782: Great Britain - Lord North's government collapses
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  • 1786: Great Britain - The Eden commercial treaty with France is drawn up
  • 1786: Pennsylvania, USA - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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  • 1787: Windsor, Great Britain - In Windsor Great Park, King George III alights from carriage and addresses oak tree as King of Prussia, but eventually recovers from this attack of dementia; first colonies in Australia, first iron boat launched
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  • 1788: Great Britain - Time to travel from London to Manchester reduced from 4.5 days to 28 hours
  • 22 Jan 1788: Great Britain - Birth of Lord Byron (died 1824)
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  • 1789: France - French Revolution, Louis XVI, many aristocrats and others executed, France declares war on European monarchies
  • 1789: France - The guillotine is invented.
  • 1789: Great Britain - The French Revolution sounded the death knoll toward elaborate and affected dress and hairdos. The powdered wig and towering women's hair styles passed from fashion. Simpler, more practical clothes emerged. Boys wore the skeleton suit, often with a comfortable open collar, and by the end of the century with plebian long trousers.
  • 1789: USA - Thomas Jefferson brought a pasta making machine back with him when he returned to America after serving as ambassador to France.
  • 1789: Switzerland - Dr. Pierre Ordinaire creates an absinthe elixir
  • 30 Apr 1789: USA - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
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  • 1792: Italy - Volta discovered he could arrange metals in a series in such a way that chemical energy is converted into electrical energy; that is, two dissimilar metals are submerged in an electrolyte and connected by an circuit and thereby exchange electrons. By 1800, he had invented the so-called voltaic cell, a pile of such metals 'consisting of pairs of silver and zinc disks separated by pieces of moist cardboard'
  • 1792: Great Britain - Coal gas is used for lighting for the first time. Mary Wollstonecraft publishes her Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • 1792: Great Britain - Cartwright invents steam-powered weaving loom
  • 1792: Great Britain - The first ambulance.
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  • 1793: Great Britain - Economic depression
  • 1793: Great Britain - Speculative 'Canal Bubble' bursts
  • 1793: Great Britain - Board of Agriculture formed to popularise new methods and machinery
  • 1793: Great Britain - Britain becomes foremost world trader during period to 1815
  • 1793: Great Britain - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin which efficiently separates cotton fibers from the seeds, allowing one person to do a job once done by 50 people. This profoundly changes the economics of raising cotton, revitalizing slavery in the American South.
  • 1 Feb 1793: Great Britain - France declares war on Britain
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  • 1794: Great Britain - Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandfather, proposed that 'warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament...possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering those improvements by generation to its posterity.'
  • 1794: Great Britain - Metric system introduced in France
  • 1794: Great Britain - More lower-class radicalism, Habeas Corpus suspended again, instigators charged with treason, in Scotland found guilty and transported
  • 1794: Great Britain - Welshman Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
  • 1794: Great Britain - Total of 40,000 British troops die in West Indies in war with France over two year period
  • 1 Jun 1794: Great Britain - Howe defeats French fleet at Ushant
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  • 1796: Great Britain - Edward Jenner investigated the folk tale that milk maids were immune to small pox, the virus variola major, and in a brief series of experiments confirmed that exposure to cow pox, the virus vaccinia, rendered immunity
  • 1796: Italy - General Napoleon Bonaparte appears on scene, attacks Austrian armies
  • 1796: Ceylon - British conquer Ceylon
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  • 1797: Europe - All Europe makes peace with France save Britain, sea battle off Cape St. Vincent (off Spanish coast), Jervis and Nelson (then Captain) utterly defeat big French and Spanish fleet
  • 1797: Great Britain - Royal Navy sailors at Spithead and the Nore mutiny over deplorable conditions
  • 1797: USA - John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
  • 1797: Great Britain - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
  • 1797: Great Britain - Wittemore patents a carding machine.
  • 1797: Great Britain - John Hetherington in London develops the top hat.
  • 1797: Great Britain - Major Dubied purchased the formula for an 'absinthe elixir' and together with his son, Henri-Louis Pernod sets up an absinthe factory in Switzerland.
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  • 1801: UK - The first British Census is undertaken
  • 1801: UK - Population of England and Wales now 10 million, Great Britain estimated at 11 million, biggest increases in North and West Midlands, London now 1 million plus, Manchester 137,201, Glasgow and Edinburgh 100,000 plus, England has 8 towns larger than 50,000, 6 of them in the North; Lord Dundas travels on Scottish canal in small steamboat - beginning of steamboat travel
  • 1801: UK - Tripolitan War 1801-1805. Barbary Wars: also fought in 1815. United States vs Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 1801-1805.
  • 1801: USA - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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  • 1808: Peninsular War to drive the French out of Spain (until 1814)
  • 1808: Portugal - Battle of Vimeiro is a British victory; British casualties less than 40,000 dead
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  • 1811: UK - Depression caused by Orders of Council.
  • 1811: UK - George III's illness leads to his son, the Prince of Wales, becoming Regent
  • 1811: UK - Ned Ludd leads rioters who smash machinery, burn factories, followers known as Luddites
  • 1811: UK - Birth rate falls all over England during the next 20 years
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  • 1815: Europe - Peace is established in Europe at the Congress of Vienna.
  • 1815: UK - The Corn Laws are passed by Parliament to protect British agriculture from cheap imports
  • 1815: UK - Start of two-year commercial boom in Britain
  • 1815: UK - England has now 2600 miles of canals, 500 in Scotland and Ireland; China clippers take 109 days to sail 15000 miles from Canton to English Channel; Britain's population estimated at 13 million; Britain imports 82 million pounds of raw cotton, by 1860 1000 million pounds; coal output 16 million tons (30 miillion by 1835, 50 million by 1848)
  • 1815: UK - Sir Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
  • 1815: UK - Over the next fifteen years, five new states are founded along Mississippi Valley, mostly due to people fleeing Depression; more go to Canada, as many as 20,000 some years, frequently Scots
  • Mar 1815: Elba, France - Napoleon escapes, leads French in war once more
  • 18 Jun 1815: Belgium - Duke of Wellington trounces the French at Waterloo with timely help of Blucher (Prussia)
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  • 1822: France - First prototype Espresso machine
  • 1822: Ireland - Famine in Ireland prompts migration to US and Canada
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  • 1849: USA - Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
  • 1849: UK - Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
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  • 1850: USA - American Joel Houghton invented the first dishwasher. He made it out of wood, and gave it a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on the dishes inside. It didn't really work, but it did get the first 'dishwasher' patent
  • 1850: UK - First machine-made paper bag
  • 1850: UK - Mines Inspectorate created, helps protect adult male mine workers
  • 1850: USA - Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Vice president under Zachary Taylor, he was sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
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  • 1851: UK - The Great Exhibition is staged in Hyde Park. Thanks to Prince Albert, it is a great success
  • 1851: UK - Window tax abolished
  • 1851: USA - Patent for sewing machine issued to Isaac Singer
  • 1851: UK - British Census shows 10,736,000 females, 8,155,000 of whom were aged 10 and older, largest occupational group domestic service workers, 905,000, 145,000 washerwomen, 55,000 charwomen (cleaners), 272,000 in cotton industry, 113,000 in woolen industry, 140,000 in lace, hosiery and linen
  • 1851: Europe - First submarine cable, Dover to Calais
  • 1851: London, UK - Reuters opens news agency
  • 1851: Africa - Livingstone's explorations begin
  • 1851: Australia - Population of Australia rises from 405,000 in 1851 to 1,168,000 in 1861
  • Sep 1851: Melbourne, Australia - Gold fever - 19,000 immigrants land in one month, for the whole year 94,664, seven times as many as 1851
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  • 1855: UK - John Snow, investigating London's piped water supply, showed graphically that cholera could be transmitted by water from a particular pump.
  • 1855: UK - Palmerston's first government comes to power
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  • 1872: UK - Secret voting is introduced for elections
  • 1872: UK - Parliament passes the Scottish Education Act
  • 1872: USA - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
  • 1872: UK - J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
  • 1872: UK - Period to 1896 sees three economic slumps and two recoveries, said to be due to imported foodstuffs from US depressing Britain's agricultural business
  • 1872: USA - Levi Strauss discovered rugged trousers for miners made out of sturdy brown canvas. Once this resource was exhausted, he turned to denim, which he dyed blue to become what is known now as blue jeans
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  • 1875: UK - Benjamin Disraeli purchases a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez Canal.
  • 1875: UK - Parliament passes R.A. Cross's Conservative social reforms
  • 1875: UK - Collapse of British agriculture due to cheap grain from US, wheat acreage falls by nearly a million acres
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  • 1880: UK - William Gladstone establishes his second Liberal government
  • 1880: South Africa - The first Anglo-Boer War begins
  • 1880: UK - British forests now decimated except for bits of the New Forest and the Forest of Dean.
  • 1880: UK - Number of agricultural labourers reduced by about 100,000 in last 10 years
  • 1880: UK - Englishman John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
  • 1880: UK - The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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