100 - James Boon - Segenhoe, Bedfordshire, UK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

James Boon died on August 13th 1834 aged 100. He would have witnessed many events during his lifetime. Born in 1734 he would have seen his first leap year in 1740 and was alive when on October 9th the Dutch East India Company massacred 5,000–10,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia.

In Britain by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, alien immigrants (including Huguenots and Jews) in the colonies received British nationality in 1740. In 1750 three small earthquakes struck nearby at Warrington, Spalding and Northampton and the world population reached 791,000,000.

1760 was in the midst of the Seven Years' War and on October 25th George II of Great Britain died. In 1770 James Cook dropped anchor in a wide bay about 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the bay, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, James Cook calls the place Botany Bay. Then Joseph Priestley, a British chemist, recommended the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks.

1780 saw the British population reach 9 million then in 1790 the first boat specialized as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne whilst Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt refused to recognize Belgian independence.

1800 was a union as Great Britain passed the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom (to take effect on 1 January 1801). The act is signed by King George III in August. The first smallpox vaccination was made in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.

1810 saw Beethoven compose his famous piano piece, Für Elise and King George III of the United Kingdom was recognized as insane. In 1820 George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the throne, ending the period known as the British Regency. There will be a gap of 21 years before the title Prince of Wales is next used. Also the last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded).

Finally 1830 is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the July Revolution, the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respectively France, the Low Countries and Poland.

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Location of Headstone: All Saints Church, Segenhoe

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