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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

1836 - November

Nov 2
The board of Canada's Welland Canal Company resolves to submit petitions to the legislature.

Nov 3
Fur trader Isaac Graham rallies a party of Californians and Mexican renegades to seek independence from Mexico.

Nov 4
The Welland Canal board submits a petition to the legislature.

Nov 6
The first steam train trip in Maine is made, Bangor to Old Town, 12 miles, 37 1/2 cents.

Unitarian clergyman and philosopher Francis Ellingwood Abbot is born in Boston, Massachusetts, to teacher Joseph Hale Abbot and Fanny Ellingwood Larcom Abbot.

Nov 7
California declares independence from Mexico. Mexico does not interfere.

Nov 11
Opposing the formation of a Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation, Chile declares war.

Nov 18
Lyricist-poet William Schwenck Gilbert is born in London.

Nov 30
The U. S. and the Peru-Bolivia Confederation sign a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation, in Lima.

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