Florence Nightingale Born
May 12, 1820
In a Tuscan villa she was named for, a daughter was born to wealthy English tourists. Three decades later she would defy her family, run a hospital in a Crimean barracks, reduce deaths by handwashing and ventilation, and invent modern nursing - and the art of persuading bureaucracies with statistics.
In context
Also in 1820 (5 other events on record)
- Missouri Compromise · North America · Politics
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Before and after in Europe
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.