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| c. 1804 |
| | | It is estimated that in approximately 1804 the population of the world reached one billion | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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| c. 1821 |
| | | The Shaker settlements, now widespread in the US, form The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves | |
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| 1833 |
| | | Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery | |
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| 1845 |
| | | US author Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early and thoughtful feminist study of women's place in society | |
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| c. 1864 |
| | | Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents to the Royal Society his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics, now known collectively as Maxwell's Equations | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Gregor Mendel reads a paper to the Natural History Society in Brno describing his discoveries in the field of genetics | |
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| 1866 |
| | | The Argentine Rural Society is founded as the exclusive preserve of Argentina's oligarchy | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Dmitry Mendeleyev reads to the Russian Chemical Society in St Petersburg his formulation of the periodic table | |
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