The Chesleyan Timeline

1856
(May 24) - Emily Chutney Chesley born County Clare, Ireland
Patent No. 8532
2^nd Opium War
Synthetic dyes invented

1857
The Gentleman's Friend
The Peasbody-Rectim Affair
Indian Mutiny (to '58)

1858
Government of India transferred to Britain

1859
John Brown at Harper's Ferry
Darwin: On the Origin of Species

1860
The Fecal Banishment Apparatus
Bessemer: mass production of steel

1861
Sympathetic Vibratory Earwax Remover
American Civil War begins (to 1865)

1862
London Garroting Panic
The Garrote-Proof Collar
Bismark President of Prussia

1863
Whistle-Snap Vitals Binding System
Maxwell: theory of electromagnetism

1864
Automated Peat Slicer, Dicer, Packer and Stacker
The Lady's Flatus Inhibitor
The Windy Lake Cross Rip incident
Jules Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

1865
The Lady's Aerophagia Ameliorator
US President Lincoln assassinated
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
Pasteur: theory of germs causing disease
Whymper ascends Matterhorn

1866
The Southwark Sling

1867
Alaska purchase
Canadian independence
Fenian uprising in Ireland
Austro-Hungarian Empire formed

1869
The Hand Mortar
Flannigan/Chesley clan leaves Ireland for the Green Fields of Amerkia on board the SS Baguette