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| 1 | 1845 | - Newlyn East, Cornwall: East Wheal Rose mine disaster, 39 lives lost in flooding
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| 2 | 1856 | - The 144 feet high obelisk commemorating Lt-Gen. Sir W R Gilbert is erected at Bodmin, Cornwall
- John Verran, who becomes Premier of South Australia in 1910, is born at Cusgarne, Gwennap, Cornwall
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| 3 | 1859 | - Devon and Cornwall are linked by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Saltash railway bridge across the River Tamar
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| 4 | 1866 | - Collapse of copper prices begins the de-industrialisation of Cornwall and increases Cornish emigration
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| 5 | 1867 | - The High Sheriff appeals for aid to prevent "severe distress and great destitution" in Cornwall. Between 1860 and 1870 700 people die of poverty-related diseases in Truro alone
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| 6 | 1870 | - Women in UK obtain limited rights to retain their property after marriage
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| 7 | 1877 | - The first use of a high-pressure hose in the extraction of Cornish china-clay is introduced by the West Of England Company, but is sabotaged by the workers
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| 8 | 1880 | - Education becomes compulsory for children under ten in UK
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| 9 | 1882 | - Walter Langley settles in Newlyn, Cornwall, the first of those who become known as artists of the Newlyn School to reside
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| 10 | 1883 | - Married women in UK obtain the right to acquire their own property
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| 11 | 1890 | - Bob Fitzsimmons of Helston, Cornwall is the first native Briton heavy-weight boxing champion
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| 12 | 1891 | - 9 Mar 1891: A blizzard swept through Cornwall bringing snowdrifts up to 20 feet deep. But it is the hurricane force wind that causes most damage: over 200 lives are lost, the majority at sea where 63 ships founder. Upwards of 6,000 sheep and lambs die, and half a million trees are brought down
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| 13 | 1893 | - St.Just Cornwall, Wheal Owles mine disaster, 20 lives lost in flooding
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| 14 | 1894 | - Parish councils are created in UK
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| 15 | 1901 | - Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII
- Marconi sends first transatlantic signal from Cornwall
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| 16 | 1904 | - Publication of Jenner's 'Handbook of the Cornish language', prompts the revival of Cornish
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| 17 | 1910 | - Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
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| 18 | 1914 | |
| 19 | 1918 | |
| 20 | 1919 | - St.Just, Cornwall: Levant Mine disaster, 31 lives lost when main rod of man-engine broke
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| 21 | 1921 | - Cornwall's deepest mine, the 3,500ft Dolcoath, closes
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| 22 | 1929 | - Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression
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| 23 | 1935 | - Cornish author Silas K. Hocking becomes the first author to sell 1 million books in his lifetime
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| 24 | 1936 | - George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII
- Edward VIII abdicates and is succeeded by George VI
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Abt 1838 - Yes, date unknown
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