John Snow Dates

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January: No commemorative dates identified
February: No commemorative dates identified
March: 5 March 1896 - Death of William Whitehead, the curate who did much of the follow-up work on the Golden Square outbreak.
15 March 1813 - Birth of John Snow in York, as recorded on his certificate of baptism.The oldest of nine children.
April: 3 April 1855 - Whitehead spotted the link between case no. 40 and the contaminated well on Broad Street.
7 April 1853 - First obstetric anaesthesia (chloro-form) given by John Snow to Queen Victoria, at the birth of Prince Leopold.
14 April 1857 - Snow gave chloroform to Queen Victoria at the birth of Princess Beatrice.
May: 5 May 1818 - Birth of Karl Marx, who lived in the Golden Square area at the time of the removal of the pump handle.
12 May 1820 - Birth of Florence Nightingale, who nursed victims of the Golden Square out-break.
June: 16 June 1858 - Death of John Snow in London, following a stroke six days earlier.
July: 29 July 1854 - First case of cholera in Broad Street outbreak at number 40.
August: 18 August 1897 - First cases identified in Maidstone waterborne typhoid outbreak.
29 August 1849 - First statement by Snow on cholera transmission.
30 August 1854 - Peak of the Golden Square cholera outbreak.
September: 1 September 1854 - Onset of the 'Widow of Hampstead's' illness in the Golden Square outbreak. She died the next day.
3 September 1854 - The water pump on Broad Street was examined and 'very little organic impurity found'.
8 September 1854 - Handle of the pump on Broad Street removed.
15 September 1854 - Yellow Flag Day. Pestilence flags were removed from Golden Square and the cholera outbreak was officially declared to be over.
22 September 1848 - First case of cholera in London - John Harnold, a seaman on the steamer Elbe from Hamburg.
30 September 1846 - First recorded administration of anaesthesia (sulphuric ether for dental extraction) by Thomas Greene Morton in USA.
October: 1 October 1832 - Opening of Newcastle Medical School - it is likely that Snow was present as a pupil at the opening.
16 October 1841 - Snow presented his first scientific paper.
First public demonstration of anaesthesia, by Thomas Greene Morton in Boston, USA.
November: 4 November 1831 - First case of cholera in Britain diagnosed (Sunderland).
December: 19 December 1846 - First use of anaesthesia in Britain by James Robinson, a dentist in London. He was visited within a few days by John Snow, who wished to see the process first hand.