Deaths on December 21

Friedrich Ernst Scheller

Died on December 21, 1869

Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)

Friedrich Ernst Scheller (15 November 1791 – 21 December 1869) was a German jurist and politician. He served as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament.

Scheller studied jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen from 1809 until 1813 and graduated as a lawyer. The following year, he became a judge in Aachen, a job he carried out until 1816, when he became president of the Krefeld courts of justice. Further work took Scheller to Halberstadt and Berlin, and later to Frankfurt (Oder). On 18 May 1848, he was elected to the Frankfurt Parliament and also served two years as a member of the Preußischer Landtag. Scheller retired in 1869 and died a short time afterwards, aged 78.

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6 Mar

Periodic table
Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
28 Apr

First Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
15 May

Susan B. Anthony
Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
17 Nov

Suez Canal
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
22 Nov

Clipper
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.

Deaths on December 21

Friedrich Ernst Scheller

Died on December 21, 1869

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First Transcontinental Railroad

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Suez Canal

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