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