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
Medical Events
World Events
World Events
The Donaghue Foundation
The Donaghue Foundation
Medical Events

Horace Wells, a dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

1844
World Events

Potato famine in Ireland

1846
World Events

Women’s rights conference in Seneca Falls, NY

1848
Donaghue Foundation

Patrick Donaghue is born in County Armagh, Ireland.

1848
World Events

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published

1852
Medical Events

John Snow’s epidemiological maps of the London cholera epidemic reveal the cause of the disease

1854