1799 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1799 - Events. March 1 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United St ...

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See also: French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1799 In Italy, Russian general Aleksandr Suvorov won a string of victories driving the French under Moreau out of the Po valley, and forcing them back on the French Alps and the coast around Genoa. However, the Russian armies in Switzerland were defeated by Andre Massena, and Suvorov's army was eventually withdrawn for political reasons. In Germany, Archduke Charles drove the French under Jean-Baptiste Jourdan back across the Rhine, and won several victories in Swit ...

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1799 - Ongoing events. French Revolution (1789-1799) French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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1800 - Ongoing events. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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1850 - Unknown Date. The United States Republican Party is founded Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Mass.U.S.A. Waltham Watch Company Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose- built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England. Pinkerton Detective Agency France begins to transport colonists to Algeria Modern acoustic guitar created in Spain Rifling becom ...

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1850 - January - April. January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904) January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932) January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924) January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891) January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917) January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923) Janu ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1800 - Events. March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope as Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII is ordained. April 24 - U.S. Library of Congress founded. May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January ...

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Location within Spain Cádiz is a coastal city in southwestern Spain and part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of Cádiz. According to the 2004 census, the population of Cádiz proper is 133,242, while the population of the entire urban area is estimated to be 629,054. The city is located on a peninsula protruding into the Bay of Cádiz, part of much larger Gulf of Cádiz. Cádiz is of typical Andalusian character. The old part of Cádiz, commonly referred to as the Old C ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1850 - Events. January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster giv ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1879 - Events. January - The current constitution of The State of California, US was ratified. January 2 - Fred Spofforth claims the first Hat-trick in test cricket. January 11 - Anglo-Zulu War begins. January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Ro ...

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Cayuga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It was named for one of the tribes of Indians in the Iroquois Confederation. Its county seat is Auburn. Cayuga County New York - History. When counties were established in New York State in 1683, the present Cayuga County was part of Albany County. This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. This county was red ...

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College of William and Mary - Early History. The history of the College's founding predates the founding of the United States. It begins in the Virginia Colony, which was first established at Jamestown in 1607. A school of higher education had long been a goal of the original colonists and a notable effort was chartered in 1618 at Henricus (but the plan unfortunately disappeared, along with the ent ...

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After successfully leading a coup d'état against the French Directory in 1799, and then one month later declaring himself First Consul with the support of a popular vote, Napoleon Bonaparte was convinced that coming to terms with the Catholic Church would be crucial to the success of his ventures. Ercole Consalvi, Pope Pius VII's secretary of state, was the negotiator for the Catholic Church with Napoleon. There were many misconceptions during the creation of the Concordat, such as evidence of several false copies coming before ...

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Concordat of 1801, Concordat of 1801 - Ratification

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Company rule in India - Expansion and territory. The English East India Company (later the British East India Company) was founded in 1600. The company first established a toehold in India in 1612, when the Mughal emperor Jahangir granted them the right to establish a trading post (called a factory by the company) in Surat. A second factory was established in 1640 at Madras (present-day Chennai with the permission of the Vijayanagara ruler. Bombay (present-day Mumbai) was given to King Charles II of England in 16 ...

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1793 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1793 - Events. January 2 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland January 9 - Jean-Pier ...

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Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769, Berlin–May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt - Introduction. Alexander von Humboldt - Brief description of Humboldt's travels. Between 1799 and 1804, von Humboldt travelled South and Central America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the ...

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• Alexander von Humboldt - Early life and education
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• Alexander von Humboldt - The Latin American expedition
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• Alexander von Humboldt - Humboldt acclaimed
• Alexander von Humboldt - Explorations in Russia
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• Alexander von Humboldt - The Kosmos
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1791 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). Including:

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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин listen ▶ (help·info)) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837) was a Russian Romantic author whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—assoc ...

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Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is the name given to an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly-established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1353 BC). The name for the city employed by the ancient Egyptians is written as Akhetaten (or Akhetaton – transliterations vary) in English transliteration. It trans ...

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Modern air guns are typically low-powered for safety concerns, but high-powered designs have been used for hunting and military applications. They do benefit from very high accuracy, and are used in sharpshooting events in the Olympic Games. Most airguns can be practiced in a backyard or garden, and even indoors with the proper backstop. Some of the stronger power "springers" can propel a pellet beyond 1100 ft/s (340 m/s) at approximately the speed of sound. It will produce a noise similar to a .22 cal (~5.5 mm) rimfire. These ...

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