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Jan 5, Davy Crockett arrived in Texas just in time to die at the Alamo.
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Mar 23, Coin Press was invented by Franklin Beale
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He was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather Francis Brett. his father changed the last name from hart to harte
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Oct 31, The collision of river boats Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi left 300 dead
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Dec 25, In the Battle of Okeechobee US forces defeated the Seminole Indians
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Jan 26, Tennessee became the 1st state to prohibit alcohol
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Apr 27, Fire destroyed half of Charleston
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Mar 23, Draper took 1st successful photo of the Moon
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May 1, The 1st emigrant wagon train left Independence, Missouri, for California.
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Mount St. Helens began 15 years of intermittent eruptions and then became relatively quiet for 123 years.
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background of his father.
Henry Hart, was the son of an immigrant, Bernard Hart, who moved to America and became rich. inished his college education but didn't receive a diploma due to the fact that he owed a ninety dollar graduation fee. His parents met during a visit to the Brett's home and married in 1830 -
By the age of eleven, Bret had published a number of poems.
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Britain passed a Vagrancy Act to combat begging as famine swept Ireland.
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Feb 24, King Louis-Philippe abdicated and the 2nd French republic was declared
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Jun 17, Russian troops invaded Hungary
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he traveled on a steamship to California, a trip during which they encountered many probleams, storms at sea, revolutions, and shipwreck. These experiences helped to color Harte's later writings
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Bret drifted from job to job until he became settled. He tutored the children of ranchers and even rode shotgun for a stage coach.
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Harte married Anna Griswold on August 11, 1862,
thet were married in the small town of San Rafael, California -
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He served as Secretary of the U.S. California Branch Mint before moving to New York in 1871 and later to Boston.
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where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time
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but it eventually led to a bitter falling out between the two.
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Harte was appointed to the position of United States Consul.
in Krefeld, Germany -
He then moved from krefeld, germany to glosgrow, uk
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in 1885 he settled down in london. but he never stopped writing wghen he got older.
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Jan 20, The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
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Jul 30, Great Britain declared territories in Southern Africa up to the Congo to be within their sphere of influence.
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Jun 14, Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day.
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Budweiser introduced Michelob beer as "draught beer for connoisseurs."
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Jun 21, Guam became a US territory
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Feb 15, The British threatened to use natives in the Boer War fight
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He died in England in 1902 of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley.
his wife then died on August 2, 1920, they were married for over forty years
