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Samuel Freeman Miller
1816Apr, 5

Samuel Freeman Miller

Samuel Freeman Miller, American physician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1890)
Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 – October 13, 1890) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1862 to 1890. He was a physician and lawyer.

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Events on 1816

  • 20Feb

    The Barber of Seville

    Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
  • 10Apr

    Second Bank of the United States

    The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
  • 22May

    Ely and Littleport riots of 1816

    A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.
  • 5Aug

    Electrical telegraph

    The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • 14Aug

    Cape Colony

    The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.