october 16: what happened to that day

Alexander Pushkin in 1824 in Mikhailovsky completed the work on the third chapter of Eugene Onegin.

In 1846 in the United States during the operation, dentist William Morton for the first time carried out a public demonstration of ether anesthesia.

On this day, but in 1847, Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre was published in London.

In 1923, John Harwood patented a self-winding watch in Switzerland.

On October 16, French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer Pierre Puger (1620); English statesman and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1925) Joseph Austin Chamberlain (1863); Russian chemist, specialist in complex compounds Lev Chugaev (1873); American photographer, documentary filmmaker, one of the founders of documentary photography Paul Strand (1890).