Category Archives: 19th Century

Historical Facts from 1801 to 1900 CE

October 2, 1851

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Joel Byers

On October 2, 1851, French occultist Jacques-Toussaint Benoit built and tested a pasilalinic-sympathetic compass. Benoit claimed that when snails mated, they formed a permanent telepathic link and that link based upon animal… Continue reading →

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September 24, 1890

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 24, 1890, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy. The church elders said that the fantasy of multiple wives jumping to the beck and call of one husband was just that, a stupid… Continue reading →

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September 20, 1881

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 20, 1881, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st President of the United States after the assassination of James A. Garfield by crazy man Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau believed that his imagined critical support of… Continue reading →

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September 2, 1867

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 2, 1867, the first all girls’ school was opened in the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Two new fetishes were immediately birthed. The one of being the only boy in an all girls’ school was the first. The second… Continue reading →

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August 19, 1900

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Joel Byers

On August 19, 1900, the only cricket match of the Summer Olympics began. I say began, because it took two days to complete. There were only two teams competing, England and France, as no other countries had athletes dull enough to… Continue reading →

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August 16, 1858

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Joel Byers

On August 16, 1858, telegraphed messages were sent over the newly laid trans-Atlantic cable between Britain’s Queen Victoria and US President James Buchanan. The first messages were the usual, flowery prose between 19th Century… Continue reading →

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August 5, 1861

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Joel Byers

On August 5, 1861, the US Army abolished flogging. It was said by many of the older officers, who weren’t subjected to flogging as a punishment anyway, that removing the threat of the lash would allow the common soldier to go… Continue reading →

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July 22, 1898

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Joel Byers

On July 22, 1898, the crew of the RV Belgica saw its first sunrise in over 1,600 hours. They had become the first crew to successfully endure an Antarctica winter. The Belgica had been purchased by Adrien de Gerlache and… Continue reading →

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July 12, 1843

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Joel Byers

On July 12, 1843, 37-year old Mormon leader Joseph Smith declared that God allowed polygamy. But only when it was one man with several wives. If it was a wife with multiple husbands, that was distasteful, unless the other husband… Continue reading →

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July 10, 1869

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Joel Byers

On July 10, 1869, the city of Gavle, Sweden was largely destroyed in a fire. Around 8,000 of it’s 10,000 inhabitants were left homeless. In a bit of karmic poetry, the city of Gavle, in 1966, decided to erect a giant traditional… Continue reading →

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