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Ada Lovelace
1852 - London
In London, with her body failing, the woman who saw the potential of computing before anyone else sets down what the numbers meant.
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Auvers-sur-Oise · 1850 CE to 1859 CE
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France and Low Countries
Jose de San Martin dies in exile at Boulogne-sur-Mer
1850 · Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Boulogne-sur-Mer turns liberation into exile, forcing South American independence to end in a borrowed European room.
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1859 · Down House, Kent
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Ada Lovelace
1852 - London
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In London, with her body failing, the woman who saw the potential of computing before anyone else sets down what the numbers meant.
- 1859