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Eugène Dubois ' ( 1858 – 1940 ) discovery in 1891 in Indonesia of the " Java Man ", the first specimen of Homo erectus to be discovered, demonstrated mankind's deep ancestry outside Europe.
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Despite the 1891 discovery by Eugène Dubois of what is now called Homo erectus at Trinil, Java, it was only in the 1920s when such fossils were discovered in Africa, that intermediate species began to accumulate.
Fossilised remains of Homo erectus, popularly known as the " Java Man " were first discovered by the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois at Trinil in 1891, and are at least 700, 000 years old, at that time the oldest human ancestor ever found.
* October – Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus ( later redesignated Homo erectus ), or ' Java Man ', at Trinil on the Solo River.
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois ( 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940 ) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist.
Eugène Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right, Harvard University Press ( April 30, 2002 ), 528 pages, ISBN 0-674-00866-9.
The search for a fossil showing transitional traits between apes and humans, however, was fruitless until the young Dutch geologist Eugène Dubois found a skullcap, a molar and a femur on the banks of Solo River, Java in 1891.
Its discoverer, Eugène Dubois, gave it the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus, a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning upright ape-man.
Eugène and 1858
In 1858, French pediatrician Eugène Bouchut ( 1818 – 1891 ) developed a new technique for non-surgical orotracheal intubation to bypass laryngeal obstruction resulting from a diphtheria-related pseudomembrane.
## Margaret Laura Carey ( 1853 – 1911 ) ( 4 children from 1st, 1 son from 2nd marriage ), married 1st 1875 ( divorced ) Alphonse Lambert Eugène, Ridder de Stuers ( 1841 – 1919 ), married 2nd 1880 Count William Eliot Morris Zborowski ( 1858 – 1903 ).
Eugène Brieux ( 19 January 1858 – 6 December 1932 ), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.
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He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.
Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.
File: 1799-Verninac-David. jpg | Portrait of Madame de Verninac, ( 1798 – 1799 ), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
* 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
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