Timeline
Scroll down to see important events in the history of the Donaghue family and The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.
Medical Events
World Events
The Donaghue Foundation
Horace Wells, a dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic
1844Potato famine in Ireland
1846Women’s rights conference in Seneca Falls, NY
1848Patrick Donaghue is born in County Armagh, Ireland.
1848Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
1852John Snow’s epidemiological maps of the London cholera epidemic reveal the cause of the disease
1854
Elisha Otis installs first passenger elevator NYC
1857
Darwin’s Origin of Species is published
1859
Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, leading to greater cleanliness in operating room
1860
Telegraph connects east and west coast of U.S.
First paper money in U.S. is issued
Civil War ('61 – '65)
1861
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing more than three million slaves in ten states.
1863
Patrick Donaghue emigrates to New York
1865