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Year of the Metal Dog庚戌(at the beginning of earth -Hahn己酉)

Syria: 2161/62 ( the year in October )

  • 2.1 January / February
  • 2.2 March / April
  • 2.3 May / June
  • 2.4 July / August
  • 2.5 September / October
  • 2.6 November / December
  • 2.7 Exact date of birth unknown
  • 3.1 First Quarter
  • 3.2 Second Quarter
  • 3.3 Third Quarter
  • 3.4 Fourth Quarter
  • 3.5 Exact date of death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

South America

  • September 2: The German emigrants and pharmacist Hermann Blumenau founded in Brazil named after him place Blumenau. The city is becoming a center of German colonization in the country.

United States of America

  • SEPTEMBER 9: California is 31 U.S. state.
  • September 18: The U.S. Congress adopts pressure from the southern states a tougher Fugitive Slave Law

Economy

Science and Technology

Astronomy

Teaching and research

  • February 28: Brigham Young, the prophet of the Mormons, founded the University of Deseret, the forerunner of today's University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
  • October 1: The University of Sydney Act, the University of Sydney was founded.

Technical achievements

  • March 5: The Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait is opened. The railroad bridge connects the island of Anglesey in the Irish Sea with Wales.
  • It is moved to France for the first time a submarine cable of England.

Others

  • Rudolf Clausius summarizes the thoughts of Julius Robert von Mayer and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot together in the first two laws of thermodynamics.
  • The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae on the Scottish Orkney Islands is discovered.

Culture

Fine Arts

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