1...2...3...

[gumdropper1]

1841 = 7*263

[Cynna]

1842 hey there

[Grace47]

1843 - The first major wagon train heads out on the Oregon Trail.

[gumdropper1]

1844 = 2*2*461

[Grace47]

1845 - In honor of Valentine's Day - Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Number 43

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from
Praise.I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—
and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

[gumdropper1]

1846. Impressive, Gracie.

1846 = 2*13*71

[Grace47]

A degree in English literature is useful once in awhile.

1847 - Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre and her sister, Emily Bronte, publishes Wuthering Heights. The Bronte sisters are sometimes regarded some of the "mothers" of the modern romantic novel.

[nagisa]

1848 - California Gold Rush.

- Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.

- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.

- The start of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

- Slavery is abolished in Réunion. This day is celebrated every year since 1981.

[Grace47]

1849 - Edgar Allen Poe is Nevermore....

[gumdropper1]

1850 = 2*5*5*37

[Grace47]

1851 - Western Union was founded and Doc Holiday was born.

[gumdropper1]

1852 = 2*2*463

[Grace47]

1853- Levi Strauss and Co. is founded.

[gumdropper1]

1854 = 2*3*3*103

[Grace47]

1855 - Penn State founded.

[gumdropper1]

1856 = 2*2*2*2*2*2*29

[Grace47]

1857 - Elisha Otis invents the elevator.

[gumdropper1]

1858 = 2*929

[Cynna]

1863 June 20 West Virginia becomes a state. Go Mountaineers!

[gumdropper1]

1864 = 2*2*2*233

[Grace47]

1865 _ End of US Civil War

[gumdropper1]

1866 = 2*3*311

[Cynna]

1859 missed year

[gumdropper1]

Pay attention, Cynna!

1860 = 2*2*3*5*31

[Cynna]

1861--pay attention doug, went from 1858 to 1863 to 1864--you missed it

[Grace47]

(1861 Kansas statehood)

1862 - Abe Lincoln signs the Morrill Act founding the land grant college system. Go WVU! (a land grant university)

[gumdropper1]

1867 prime

now we are back where we should be

[Grace47]

1868 - New Zealand becomes the first country to adopt standardized time.

[gumdropper1]

1869 = 3*7*89

[gumdropper1]

1870 = 2*5*11*17