Historydraft Logo
null

Anna's paternal grandfather

Part of storyAnna May WongView in story ›

Time: 1853

Place: California, U.S.

Details: Anna's paternal grandfather, A Wong Wong, was a merchant who owned two stores in Michigan Hills, a gold-mining area in Placer County. He had come from Chang On, a village near Taishan, Guangdong Province, China, in 1853.

Best-effort ordering. Some events may appear out of order since many are only known to the year, but they are usually around the same period.

Related

Near

Atari logo
Atari, Inc.-Atari Video Computer System
1975 - Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, U.S.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk-Musk's sons
2000s - United States
Junípero Serra Birth
Junípero Serra Birth
Friday Nov 24, 1713 - Petra
Flag of the United States Central Intelligence Agency
Gary Webb-Webb suicide
Friday Dec 10, 2004 - Carmichael, California, U.S.

1853

Logo of the Library of Congress
Library of Congress-Smithsonian Institution librarian Charles Coffin Jewett aggressively tried to make the Smithsonian into the United States' national library
1853 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln-Tad Lincoln
Tuesday Apr 5, 1853 - Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower-Inspiration
1853 - New York City, New York, U.S.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell-Blackwell established a small dispensary near Tompkins Square
1853 - New York City, New York, U.S.
Bicycle
Bicycle-First in Germany
1853 - Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth-Mob Convention
Wednesday Sep 7, 1853 - U.S.
Albrecht Kossel
Albrecht Kossel-Birth
Friday Sep 16, 1853 - Rostock, Germany
German Empire
Unification of Germany-Crimean War
Sunday Oct 16, 1853 - Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
Ottoman Empire Coat of arms
Ottoman Empire-Foreign Loans
Oct, 1853 - Ottoman Empire
Depiction of the earthquake in an engraving from 1696, possibly showing Catania - 1693 Sicily earthquake
1693 Sicily earthquake-Mallet recorded 93,000 deaths, in his catalog of earthquakes
1853 - United Kingdom and Ireland