Mowatt Chronology

The World of Anna Cora Mowatt

	Anna Cora Mowatt	Arts and Literature	Politics	Science and Philosophy
1810	1819 Born in Bordeaux, France	1815 First professional theatre group in the American West is established in Frankfort, K.Y. 1816 Gas lighting is used for the first time in the Chestnut Theatre	1812 Siege of Moscow is lifted. Battle of 1812 between U.S. and England	1812 Georges Cuvier founds comparative vertabrate paleontology 1814 George Stephenson constructs the first effective steam locomotive.
1820	1825 Arrives in America with Parents	1820 Debut of actor Edwin Forrest 1821 Debut of actor Junius Brutus Booth in Richmond, VA 1826 Opening of the Bowery Theatre, NY	1820 The Missouri Compromise 1823 The Monroe Doctrine	1820 First iron steamship is launched. 1821 Michael Faraday builds the first electric motor. 1825 Erie canal opens
1830	1834 Marries James Mowatt	1833 St. Charles Theatre opens in New Orleans, LA	1832 South Carolina threatens secession over the "Tariff of Abominations"	1834 Cyrus McCormick patents the reaper 1837 Samuel B. Morse invents the telegraph
1840	1841 Publication of Gulzara, or the Persian Slave Appears as a public reader in Boston 1845 Fashion opens at the Park Theatre, New York Debuts as an actress at the Park Theatre 1847 E.L. Davenport and Mowatt sail for a theatrical tour of England	1841 Dion Boucicault, London Assurance 1842 Lord Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur and other Idylls 1844 Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers 1847 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 1849 Astor Place Riot	1847 England cedes the southern part of Oregon Country to US. 1848 "Year of Revolutions" in Europe Gold Rush begins U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War Women's Rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY	1840 John William Draper photographs the moon. 1841 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen invents the carbon- zinc battery 1846 Christian Schonbein invents gun-cotton 1847 Sir James Simpson uses chloroform as an anaesthetic during childbirth
1850	1851 James Mowatt dies. Six months later, Anna Cora returns to the United States. 1853 Publication of Autobiography of an Actress Retires from the stage Marries William Foushee Ritchie 1855 Publication of Mimic Life 1857 Publication of Twin Roses	1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 1851 Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1854 Opening of the New Boston Theatre Dion Bouicault appears in Grimaldi in Cincinnati 1855 H.W. Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha	1851 Louis Napoleon caries out a coup d'etat in order to change the constitution of France 1854 Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1857 The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case renders the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. 1859 John Brown and followers seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA	1850 Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen invents the bunsen burner. 1851 Isaac Singer's first sewing machine is built 1852 Elisha Otis installs the first safety elevator 1859 Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species by Natural Selection. Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania
1860	1860 Samuel G. Odgen (Mowatt's father) dies Anna Cora sails for England (leaving Ritchie) 1861 Publication of The Mute Singer 1861-63 Lives in Paris, France 1863-65 Lives in Florence, Italy 1865-70 Lives in England	1860 George Eliot, Mill on the Floss 1861 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 1862 Victor Hugo, Les Miserables 1864 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland	1861 American Civil War begins 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Civil War ends Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. 1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia	1861 Louis Pasteur develops the germ theory of disease Pierre Michaux and his son Ernst construct the first pedalled bicycle. 1865 First carpet sweeper and mechanical dishwashers are constructed. George Mendel proposes laws of heredity. 1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1870	1870 Dies in Twickenham, England	1870 Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead	1870 France declares war on Prussia	1870 Zenobe Theophile Gramme invents the first practical generator for direct current electricity.