The Quite Incredible Number List: 1801-1900
| 1801 | The former Cisco Systems model 1801 was an Integrated Service Router, giving high-speed DSL broadband access through asymmetric DSL (ADSL) over basic telephone service. | tetsabb |
| 1802 | On January 6th 1802, the naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reached Quito, Ecuador. The Humboldt penguin is named after the cold water current it swims in, which is itself named after Alexander von Humboldt. | bemahan |
| 1803 | Under the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States bought 530,000,000 acres of land from France for $15M. | Big Martin |
| 1804 | Karl Harding discovered asteroid 3 Juno in 1804. | vanjeet |
| 1805 | The 1805 Club is dedicated to conserving memorials to Georgian naval heroes. | tetsabb |
| 1806 | Noah Webster published his first American English dictionary in 1806. | Strawberry |
| 1807 | Samuel Hahnemann introduces the term homeopathy, in 1807, in his essay Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice. | vanjeet |
| 1808 | The book 1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World by Laurentino Gomes deals with the flight of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil in that year. | Big Martin |
| 1809 | Schizophrenia was thoroughly described, for the first time, in 1809, independently by Philippe Pinel and John Haslam. | vanjeet |
| 1810 | The 1810 Company supplies sinks, taps and accessories. | Big Martin |
| 1811 | The first illegal executable prime number has 1811 digits in its decimal representation. It represents a non-compressed executable describing a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes on some DVDs. Such programs are illegal to possess or distribute in the US under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Of course, any prime number is not illegal, although such an interpretation of it could be. | Ed. |
| 1812 | 1812 is a comedy theatrical company based in Philadelphia, named after an address rather than a date. | tetsabb |
| 1813 | On the 3rd of February, 1813, Leigh Hunt was imprisoned for a libel on the Prince Regent in The Examiner (1812). He continued his literary work in jail and was visited by Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, Charles and Mary Lamb, Charles Cowden Clarke, Maria Edgeworth, William Hazlitt, Jeremy Bentham, Lord Broughan and Benjamin Haydon. | Strawberry |
| 1814 | On October 17 1814, an enormous vat of porter at Meux's Brewery in London collapsed. Several buildings were demolished and 9 people killed. | Big Martin |
| 1815 | When it is 18:15 in London, England it is 11:15 in Edmonton, Canada except between the first and fourth Saturdays in March and the last Saturday in October and first Saturday in November. | Vestan Pance |
| 1816 | 1816 was known as the 'Year Without a Summer' because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815. | Strawberry |
| 1817 | In 1817, Karl Drais tested his invention, the Dandy Charger, by riding it from Mannheim to Rheinau. The invention would later be called the velocipede and became the principle behind the bicycle. | vanjeet |
| 1818 | On the 22nd of March, 1818, Easter Day in Western Christianity fell on its earliest possible date. It will not occur on this date until 2285. | Strawberry |
| 1819 | In 1819, René Laennec published De l'Auscultation Médiate, in which he described his use of the first stethoscope. | vanjeet |
| 1820 | On March 15 1820 Maine became the 23rd state of the United States. | Big Martin |
| 1821 | The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution, was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1832, with later assistance from Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and several other European powers against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassals, the Eyalet of Egypt, and partly by the Baylik of Tunis. | Strawberry |
| 1822 | On July 3rd 1822, Charles Babbage published his proposals for a "Difference Engine". | Big Martin |
| 1823 | The first carnival parade took place in Cologne, Germany on the 10th of February, 1823. | Strawberry |
| 1824 | In 1824, William Buckland wrote about the fossilised bones of a reptile he called Megalosaurus. This was the first written account of a dinosaur in a scientific journal. | vanjeet |
| 1825 | The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened in England, on the 27th of September, 1825. | Strawberry |
| 1826 | The Britannia wrecked on the 22nd October 1826 on her outward bound voyage from England to Madeira, Table Bay, Mauritius and India. The Captain was William Bouchier. The Britannia was a ship of 460 tons, carrying passengers and a cargo of copper, Madeira wines, Hodgson's ale and Cognac brandy. She struck an uncharted reef (today known as Britannia reef), off St. Helena Bay on Sunday the 22nd October 1826. After the ship struck, Captain Bouchier immediately put her about and made sail for the land, where he succeeded in running her ashore in St. Helena Bay (this part of the bay is today known as Britannia Bay). The 16 passengers were all landed in safety. | Alfred E Neuman |
| 1827 | Between the 20th of May and the 9th of July 1827, Zarafa, a giraffe presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pashar, to King Charles X of France, the first to be seen in Europe for over three countries, walked from Marseilles to Paris. | Strawberry |
| 1828 | Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828 at only 31. Despite his early demise, he managed to compose in excess of 600 lieder, not to mention his other works. | Big Martin |
| 1829 | The patent for an instrument called the accordion was applied for by Cyrill Demian on the 6th of May, 1829. It was officially approved on the 23rd of May, 1829. | Strawberry |
| 1830 | The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi was first published in 1830. | vanjeet |
| 1831 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame was published by Victor Hugo on the 14th of January, 1831. | Strawberry |
| 1832 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 started the process of reforming the British parliament to be more representative. The Bristol Riots of the previous year were kicked off by the opposition to parliamentary reform of the visiting judge. | Big Martin |
| 1833 | On the 20th of August, 1833, future United States President Benjamin Harrison was born in Ohio. From this date until the death of former U.S. President James Madison on the 28th of June, 1836, there was a total of 18 Presidents of the United States (2 former, 1 current, and 15 known future) living; which was more than any other time period in U.S. history. | Strawberry |
| 1834 | A group of farm labourers formed a union in Tolpuddle, Dorset, in 1834. This got them into a lot of trouble. | tetsabb |
| 1835 | 1835 is a mid-price Bourbon Whiskey from North Texas Distillers that is rarely available outside its home region. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 1836 | In 1836 Texas declared independence from Mexico. | Big Martin |
| 1837 | Charles Fourier died on the 10th of October, 1837. | Strawberry |
| 1838 | The 1838 Club is a staff amenity at Dublin City University. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 1839 | The Boston Morning Post first recorded the use of "OK" on the 23rd of March, 1839. | Strawberry |
| 1840 | 1840 farm is in New England, USA, where people can go to stay and shop. | Awitt |
| 1841 | "In eighteen hundred and forty one, I put my corduroy breeches on" are the opening lines of Paddy Works on the Railway. | Alfred E Neuman |
| 1842 | On the 30th of March, 1842, anaesthesia was used for the first time in an operation. Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation using ether. | Strawberry |
| 1843 | Sol 1843 is a black and white image of the Martian surface taken by the Spirit rover that shows a desertscape with what appear to be volcanic and sediment rocks. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 1844 | According to the Bahá'í calendar, 21 March 1844 was the first day of the first year, referred to as BE (Bahá'í Era). | vanjeet |
| 1845 | Elizabeth Fry died on the 12th of October, 1845. | Strawberry |
| 1846 | 1846 is a boardgame set in the Midwest of the United States. | Awitt |
| 1847 | 1847 is a grooming lounge (is it just me or does that sound like a horrible euphemism in its cultural context) for men in Dubai. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 1848 | On 6 August 1848, the captain and crew of the HMS Daedalus spotted a large unknown sea serpent. | vanjeet |
| 1849 | 1849 is a computer game set in the California Gold Rush of that year. | Big Martin |
| 1850 | On the 23rd of May, 1850, the hippopotamus Obaysch arrived at London Zoo from Egypt, the first seen in Europe since Roman times. | Strawberry |
| 1851 | The 1851 United Kingdom census revealed that there had been a significant population shift from the countryside to the towns. | Big Martin |
| 1852 | The first public flushing toilets in London were opened on 2nd February 1852, at 95 Fleet Street, next to the Society of Arts, exclusively for gents. However, a public toilet for use by ladies was opened just over a week later on February 11 at 51 Bedford Street, a mile away. | Strawberry |
| 1853 | The University of Melbourne was established in 1853, by an act of the Victorian Parliament. | Awitt |
| 1854 | In 1854, John Snow (who knew much) studied cases of cholera in London (1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak), and discovered that it was a waterborne disease. In the same year, in Florence, Filippo Pacini discovers and describes vibrio cholera, the bacterium that causes cholera. | vanjeet |
| 1855 | 1855 Oxford is a wine bar and bistro. | Big Martin |
| 1856 | In 1856, Neanderthal 1, the first bones of the Neanderthal, was discovered in Neander Valley, Germany. | vanjeet |
| 1857 | In July 2017, it was reported that 1857 properties were lying empty near Grenfell Tower while some of the fire survivors remained homeless. | Ed. |
| 1858 | 1858 Ltd is an art advisory firm. | Big Martin |
| 1859 | Arthur Conan Doyle was born on the 22nd of May, 1859. | Strawberry |
| 1860 | In 1860, Dr. Albert Niemann completed a dissertation On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves, in which he describes cocaine as follows: "its solutions have an alkaline reaction, a bitter taste, promote the flow of saliva and leave a peculiar numbness, followed by a sense of cold when applied to the tongue". | vanjeet |
| 1861 | On the 27th of August, 1861, Martin Doyle's was the last execution in Britain for attempted murder. | Strawberry |
| 1862 | The Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company opened the first railway in New Zealand in 1862 - a horse-drawn tramway from Dun Mountain copper mine to Port Nelson. | Big Martin |
| 1863 | In January, 1863, John Tyndall first explained the workings of the greenhouse effect. | Strawberry |
| 1864 | 1864 is a Danish TV series set mainly in the 2nd Schleswig War. | Big Martin |
| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln died on the 15th of April, 1865. | Strawberry |
| 1866 | 1866 saw the Seven Weeks War between Prussia and Austria which formed partof a series of events leading to the unification of Germany. | Big Martin |
| 1867 | On the 28th of February, 1867, after almost 20 years, the United States Congress forbade taxpayer funding of diplomatic envoys to the Holy See. Funding resumed in 1984. | Strawberry |
| 1868 | Penal transportation from Britain to Australia came to an end in 1868 with the arrival of the last 280 convicts aboard the Hougoumont. | vanjeet |
| 1869 | On November 17 1869 the Suez Canal was inaugarated in a big ceremony. | Big Martin |
| 1870 | Ludimar Hermann recorded the grid illusion for the first time in 1870. | vanjeet |
| 1871 | On the 10th of November, 1871, Henry Morton Stanley located David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and reportedly greeted him with the well-known line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". However, this line does not appear in his journal from the time. | Strawberry |
| 1872 | Mercedes A-series error-code P1872 indicates that the gear-selector position module is not functioning correctly, so you need to have one of the footmen ride in the front passenger seat to tell you what gear you currently have selected. | PDR |
| 1873 | John Stuart Mill died on the 8th of May, 1873. | Strawberry |
| 1874 | The Palazzo Castri 1874 is a hotel in Florence. | Big Martin |
| 1875 | On the 1st of January, 1875, the Midland Railway of England abolished the Second Class passenger category leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed Midland's lead during the rest of the year. Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956. | Strawberry |
| 1876 | The Bass Brewery Red Triangle became the world's first registered trademark in 1876. | Big Martin |
| 1877 | In March of 1877, the Nineteenth Century magazine was founded in London. | Strawberry |
| 1878 | European Court of Human Rights case 1878 is REDFEARN v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (2012), dealing with an employee's right not to be dismissed for holding repugnant views. | Spud McLaren |
| 1879 | The Anglo-Zulu War was fought between the 11th of January and the 4th of July, 1879. | Strawberry |
| 1880 | 1880: China is a board game involving the players as railway capitalists. | Big Martin |
| 1881 | Billy the Kid died on the 14th of July, 1881. | Strawberry |
| 1882 | Six months ago, a Winchester rifle made in 1882 was found leaning against a tree in the Great Basin National Park. Nobody knows whose it was nor how long it had been there, but it was obviously a very long time. | Spud McLaren |
| 1883 | The famous eruption of Krakatoa happened in 1883. | Big Martin |
| 1884 | In 1884, Dr. William Price attempted to cremate the body of his infant son, and was arrested for doing so. It was though that cremation was illegal, but was later discovered that it was not the case and he was freed. This case set a precedent for the Cremation Act. | vanjeet |
| 1885 | 1885 The Restaurant is in Halifax. | Big Martin |
| 1886 | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease was first described in 1886. (It is not a disease of the teeth). | vanjeet |
| 1887 | Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in November of 1887, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. | Strawberry |
| 1888 | 1888 near-earth asteroids were discovered in 2016. | Ed. |
| 1889 | Shikoku 1889 is a 2005 board game. It is set in Shikoku Japan and was designed by Yasutaka Ikeda. | Strawberry |
| 1890 | In 1890 the first official English County Cricket championship match was played in Bristol. Gloucestershire lost by 8 wickets to Yorkshire. | Big Martin |
| 1891 | On the 22nd of December, 1891, Asteroid 323 Brucia became the first asteroid discovered using photography. | Strawberry |
| 1892 | James Naismith devised the thirteen rules of basketball in 1892, later that year the first game of "basket football" was played in Springfield, Massachusetts. | vanjeet |
| 1893 | On the 1st of May, 1893, the 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian, opened in Chicago. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition. | Strawberry |
| 1894 | The first wall painted advertisement for Coca-Cola was placed in downtown Cartersville, Georgia in 1894. Coca-Cola was also bottled for the first time in the same year. | vanjeet |
| 1895 | On the 28th of December, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière displayed their first moving picture film in Paris. | Strawberry |
| 1896 | The Red Flag Act was repealed in July 1896, an event commemorated in the annual London to Brighton run. | Big Martin |
| 1897 | Ethiopia first used the tricolour flag on the 6th of October, 1897. Green is for the land, yellow is for gold, and red is symbolic of strength and the blood shed. | Strawberry |
| 1898 | Hotel 1898 is on Las Ramblas in Barcelona. | Big Martin |
| 1899 | The paperclip was patented by Johan Vaaler on the 27th of June, 1899. | Strawberry |
| 1900 | The LZ 1, built by Count Zeppelin, became the first airship to successfully complete a flight in 1900. | vanjeet |
