Timeline: Ellen MOULAND: Mills/Rushton Family History

1848 - 1853 (5 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1848	1848: First commercial production of chewing gum 24 Jan 1848: Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California – starts the California gold rush 11 Jul 1848: Waterloo railway station in London opens
2	1849	1849: Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation – which finally occurred in 1971!
3	1851	1851: Gold discovered in Australia 1 May 1851: Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ("Crystal Palace" exhibition) opened in Hyde Park
4	1852	1852: Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement 1852: Wells Fargo established in USA
5	1853	1853: Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain