Count down year by year with real world facts!

1862 - the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of the IRS, is established in the United States ...

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You mean the world ended in 2012 and this reality thing we're all doing is our collective dying dream.

Lol my dumbass brother thought the world was ending and was having panic attacks because "Mayan Calendar" and YouTube videos
 
1861

The American Civil War

You pussies gave up your slaves and now we have to pick our own damn cotton.
 
1860

South Carolina says F this yankee BS and leaves the Union.
 
1859 - William Hall became the first black Canadian to win the Victoria Cross ... which is especially cool because Canada didn't exist for 8 more years.
 
1858
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Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

very famous line

also the pencil with an attached eraser was patented by Hyman L Lipman of Phila

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Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

very famous line


Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
- Jesus, Matthew 12:25
 
1854

March 27 –Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

 
1853

Potato chips are first prepared, by George Crum at Saratoga Springs, New York, according to popular accounts.

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While working at Moon's Lake House in the midst of a dinner rush, George Crum tried slicing the potatoes extra thin and dropping it into the deep hot fat of the frying pan. Thus was born the potato chip.

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1851
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Author Mary Shelly dies. Mary Shelley's last years were blighted by illness. From 1839, she suffered from headaches and bouts of paralysis in parts of her body, which sometimes prevented her from reading and writing. On 1 February 1851, at Chester Square, she died at the age of fifty-three from what her physician suspected was a brain tumor.

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1850
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The British begin sending convicts to Western Australia. The first 75 convicts arrived in Fremantle on 1 June 1850.
Between 1850 and 1868, 9721 convicts were transported to Western Australia on 43 convict ship voyages. At the request of the colony, convicts were initially selected for transportation in accordance with three conditions:

  • that no female convicts be transported;
  • that no political prisoners be transported; and
  • that no convicts convicted of serious crimes be transported.
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1849
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The 13 Martyrs of Arad and Hungry's first Prime minister Lajos Batthyany are executed... on the same day. Tweleve of the thirteen Martyrs were hung which was deemed as humiliating. PM Batthyany had smuggled a sword into his cell and attempted to commit suicide. For Batthyany his initial death by hanging was changed to death by firing squad.

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1848
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the "Communist Manifesto." The Communist Manifesto surmises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. Near the end of the Manifesto, the authors call for "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as the justification for all communist revolutions around the world.

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1847 - the United States issues it's first postage stamps ...

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