Significant events during the lifetime of Bizet
1838
Georges Bizet born in Paris on October 25th.
1838-1840 Civil war in the Federal Republic of Central America led to the foundings of
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
1841
U.S. President Harrison dies one month after inauguration; John Tyler becomes first vice
president to succeed to presidency.
1842
U.S. surgeon and pharmacist Crawford Long uses first anesthetic (ether).
1845
Failure of potato crop causes famine in Ireland. Congress adopts joint resolution for
annexation of Texas.
1846
Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone in Belgium. Sewing machine patented by Elias Howe in
Massachusetts.
1848
Bizet was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris two weeks before his 10th birthday.
1849
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and joins the Underground Railroad. California gold
rush begins.
1851
The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo/World Fair.
1853
Henry Steinway and his three sons begin the New York firm of piano manufacturers.
1858
New York Symphony Orchestra gives its first public concert.
1861
U.S. Civil War begins.
1863
Bizet’s opera THE PEARL FISHERS premiers in Paris.
1865
In England, Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
1867
U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000. South African diamond field is discovered.
1868
Revolution in Spain; Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France. In U.S., Fourteenth
Amendment giving civil rights to African-Americans is ratified.
1869
First U.S. transcontinental rail route is completed. Suez Canal opens.
Bizet marries Geneviève Halévy on June 3rd.
1871
The feudal system is dismantled in Japan.
1872
Yellowstone, first U.S. national park, is created. The first recognized international soccer
game is played between England and Scotland.
1873
Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1875
Bizet’s opera CARMEN premiers in Paris on March 3rd; Bizet dies on June 3rdat age 48.