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1841 - birth year of Edward VII

1842 Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross, charting the eastern side of James Ross Island, reaches the Farthest South of 78°09'30"S.

1843 - an especially cold year in the United States. 15 military outposts reported record minimum temperatures, like Fort Snelling, Fort Leavenworth, Jefferson Barracks, Fort Gibson, Fort Jesup, Fort Brooke, Fort Moultrie, Fort Monroe, Fort McHenry, Fort Columbus, Alleghany Arsenal, Watervliet Arsenal, West Point, Fort Constantine, and Benicia.

The weather is possibly a result of volcanic eruptions in Mt Etna, and an eruption on Mt St Helens

1844: The Edict of Toleration was passed in the Ottoman Empire. It was an attempt by the Sultan to temper the independence movements of the non-Muslim people of the empire.

1845 Distilling Company is a company that -wait for it- distills

1846 is the 70th smallest divisor of 25^10-1, or the (2+5)*10^1 th. It is one of only three numbers that are also one of the most recent 250 years that fits this criterion, the others being 1804 and 1968.

1847 First known publication of the classic joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American war and ceding most of what would form the southwestern US.

1849

Yeah, that's it. Just the number.

1850 - Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition, on May 1851, in Hyde Park.

1852: The first president of the Second French Republic became its last as he became Emperor Napoleon III. He was also going to be the last monarch of the country.

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

In 1854, the famed Charge of the Light Brigade, immortalized by the poem of the same name written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, occurred during the Crimean war, due to a lack of communication between commanders.

1855 - November 21 – Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins, with events leading to "war" between antislavery and proslavery forces.

1856 The Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War. Peace would last for two decades before Russia and the Ottomans went to another war.

1857 Elgar born

1858, a sequence of notes playable on the valveless bugle, and other non valved brass instruments. In the key of C, these notes would be C4-C5-G4-C5, with 8 indicating the octave of a chord, and 5 the fifth.

1859 = 1858+1

1860=1859+0.999999...