Allen’s Place

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• 1819 A maximum 12–hour working day for juveniles is set in England.
• 1822 The streets of Boston, Massachusetts, are lit by gas.
• 1824 Beethoven, completely deaf, writes his Symphony No. 9 in D Major, Opus 127, in Vienna.

Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Purpose of Education

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• 1816 The stethoscope is invented by R. T. Lae'nnec.
• 1817 Construction of the Erie Canal between Buffalo and Albany begins.
• 1818 The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, taking 26 days.

"FAITH is taking the first STEP even when you don't see the WHOLE staircase!"MLK Jr. 

POLITICS

• 1818 THE Zulu Empire is founded in South Africa.
• 1819 The East India Company establishes a British settlement in Sinapore.
• 1819 The United States buys Florida from Spain.
• 1821 Peru, Guatemala, Panama, and Santo Domingo proclaim independence from Spain.
• 1822 Turks invade Greece.

It’s your life live it well!  By Judge Judy