1845
Irish Potato Famine begins
galvanized corrugated iron patented
Neptune discovered
1848
Height of the Potato Famine
Flannigan family flees Ireland, moves to London, England
Revolutions in Europe
Britain annexes Punjab
California gold rush
Communist manifesto
1849
Auditory Directional Apparatus
Livingston crosses Africa
Safety pin patented
Kelvin: 2nd law of thermodynamics
1850
Flannigan's Phanerogam Rendering Tube
Flannigan sets up a shop on Fleet Street
Survey of the Nanga Parbat as well as the peaks of the Karakoram Range
in the Himalayas by Sir George Everest. Mount Everest (Peak XV) discovered
to be the highest in the world.
Flannigan and Tyrolean mountaineer Gunter Gruntz board HMS Bungwash,
bound for India, China
Gruntz starts Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
1851
Flannigan suffers nasty ingrown toenail in Nan Mountains, China
Flannigan expedition meets Ch'i Ling Posies; Flannigan inspired by Feng
Shui
1852
Flannigan and mountaineer Gunter Gruntz arrive in Lhasa, Tibet
Failed ascent of Mount Everest (Peak XV)
The Particulate Breathing Apparatus
Catherine Flannigan enters the Worcestershire Convent and Buggy Wash
in Liverpool
1853
Flannigan returns to England
Crimean War begins (ends 1856)
1854
Flannigan's Introspection Wheel is a hit with the upper classes
(Dec. 24) Marriage of Emily's parents: Johnny Charles Chesley and Molly
Magdalene Catherine Mary (nee) Flannigan
1855
Telegraph news of Crimean War
Johnny Charles Chesley killed at Sevastapol
Class action suit against Flannigan (re: Phanerogam Rendering Tubes,
this episode is also called the Dangler Disaster)
Flannigans and Chesleys flee London, return to Ennis, Co. Clare
The Pornograph
Mendel: laws of heredity
