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On February 3, 1879, Chelmsford wrote that every record of No. 3 Column was lost. The Gazette printed the dead by name; the Commons divided 246 to 306.
· 1879Bligh's own account of the dawn of April 28, 1789, the 3618-mile boat voyage to Timor, and the Portsmouth court-martial of 1792 that hanged three men.
· 1789Britain set June 1948 as the deadline on February 20, 1947; the June 3 plan cut it to August 15; commissions formed June 30 signed the line on August 12.
· 1947The April 25, 1915 landing was the first major action of Australia's and New Zealand's own forces; 8,709 Australians and 2,779 New Zealanders died there.
· 1915Paris fell on February 24, 1848 and four capitals followed by March 22; by 1849 liberals had split from workers, nations from nations, and armies won.
· 1848Rajendra I's inscriptions list the ports his ships took, from Srivijaya to Kadaram, but give no reason for the war. Historians read the gap differently.
· 1025Foragers at Odai Yamamoto in northern Japan fired plain pots about 13,000 BC and cooked fish in them; by 3900 BC Sannai-Maruyama ate chestnuts and fish.
· 13,000 BCAurignacian hunters drew Chauvet about 37,000 to 33,500 years ago; Lascaux was painted about 21,500 years ago. Radiocarbon on charcoal and bone says so.
· 34,000 BCHunter-gatherers raised Göbekli Tepe's T-pillar rings about 9500 BC, before farming reached the region. Excavators now call it a settlement with rituals.
· 9500 BCFrom 762 to 833 the Abbasid caliphs paid translators in Baghdad to turn Greek, Persian and Indian works of medicine, astronomy and mathematics into Arabic.
· AD 830Sandstone shelters near Bhopal hold paintings from the Mesolithic to historic times, ordered by overlap, style and weathering; the paint itself is undated.
· 8000 BCVasco da Gama reached Calicut on May 20, 1498, with cloth, hats, sugar and honey; the Zamorin's officers laughed and he left with a letter asking for gold.
· 1498He came aboard Endeavour on July 13, 1769, at Banks's request, spoke to Māori for Cook in New Zealand, drew a chart of islands and died at Batavia in 1770.
· 1769A fingertip bone dug up in 2008 at Denisova Cave in the Altai held DNA unlike any Neanderthal or modern human. Its kin live on in Tibetan and Papuan DNA.
· 50,000 BCThe oath sworn in the Meiji emperor's name in April 1868, its five clauses, and the 22 years from Fushimi to the first Imperial Diet of 1890.
· 1868Shah Abbas laid out a 524-by-158-meter square at Isfahan and began the Masjed-e Shah there in 1611; deported Julfa Armenians carried his silk.
· 1611In three letters of 1526, Afonso I of Kongo asked João III of Portugal for priests, physicians and an end to the slave trade. The originals are in Lisbon.
· 1526Lincoln's proclamation freed the enslaved in ten rebel states, exempted 13 Louisiana parishes and 55 Virginia counties, and skipped the border states.
· 1863He left Tangier on June 14, 1325; dictation ended in Fez on December 9, 1355. Delhi's salary and Mali's court are recorded; the Bulghar ride is invented.
· 1325Moscow cut Turkestan, Bukhara and Khorezm into republics named for nationalities in 1924-25, on Stalin's definition of a nation, and revised them to 1936.
· 1924Sèvres (1920), signed by the sultan's ministers, partitioned Anatolia; Ankara drove Greece from Smyrna, ended the sultanate and won Lausanne in 1923.
· 1923A camp under a Chilean bog, dated to about 14,500 years ago, put people in South America before the Clovis hunters. Later claims reach 23,000 years.
· 12,500 BCA Soviet expedition found the Gonur oasis in Turkmenistan's Karakum desert in 1974. Its Bronze Age city traded with the Indus; its dates are disputed.
· 2000 BCBabur lost Samarkand three times, took Kabul in October 1504 without a fight, and beat Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat on April 20, 1526, with 700 roped carts.
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