Historical Events

1656 England & France sign peace treaty

1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay, Manhattan, during Revolution

Lyrical Ballads

1795 "Lyrical Ballads" published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date)

1795 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

1830 Duke of Wellington opens George Stephenson 's Liverpool and Manchester Railway

First Railway Casualty

1830 William Huskisson becomes the first passenger killed by a railway train while attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Parkside station in England

Darwin in the Galapagos

1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reaches

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