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George Owen Fursdon

Male 1858 - 1865  (7 years)Deceased


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   Date  Event(s)
1858 
  • 1858: The great stink
    'The great stink' - smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work
  • 1858: Royal Opera House
    Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London
1859 
  • 25 Apr 1859: Work Started on the Suez canal
    Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)
  • 4 May 1859: Royal Albert Bridge opened
    Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon and Cornwall
  • 24 Nov 1859: The Origin of Species published
    Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
1860 
  • 29 Aug 1860: First tram service in Europe starts
    First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead
1861 
  • 25 May 1861: American Civil War begins
    American Civil War begins
1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test
    First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1863 
  • 1863: Football Association founded
    Football Association founded (UK)
  • 1863: Broadmoor opens
    Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
  • 10 Jan 1863: London Underground
    First section of the London Underground Railway opens - In 1855 an Act of Parliament was passed approving the construction of an underground railway between Paddington Station and Farringdon Street via King's Cross which was to be called the Metropolitan Railway.
1864 
  • 1864: First recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
    A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
  • 11 Mar 1864: Great Sheffield Flood
    The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
  • 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established
    Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
  • 8 Dec 1864: Clifton Suspension Bridge
    Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
1865 
  • 1865: First woman doctor in England
    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]
  • 1865: Last convicts landed in NSW
    First concrete roads built in Britain
  • 14 Apr 1865: End of American Civil War
    End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
  • 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated
    Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
  • 5 Jul 1865: Salvation Army founded
    William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London