Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1811 - Events. January 8 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. February 5 - George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.He is known as the Prince Regent. This is the beginning ...

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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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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 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). 1890 - Events. January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House. January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity founded January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.< ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). 1898 - Events. January 1 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Qu ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1880 - Events. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti July 1 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada. July 16 - First woman licensed to pra ...

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Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus in a rigorous manner and was thus an early pioneer of analysis. He also gave several important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cov ...

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David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857), was a Canadian surveyor and explorer. He was born in London, and died in Montreal, Canada East. Thompson was a fur trader of the Hudson's Bay Company. From 1792 to 1812, he explored and mapped the country west of Hudson Bay and Lake Superior, across the Rocky Mountains to the headwaters of the Columbia River and down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. He was the first European to explore the Columbia from source to mouth. In 1797, he left the Hudson's Bay Company and joined ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1882 - Events. January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 3 - P. T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing champi ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1899 - Events. January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India. January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. ...

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The mouth of the Singapore River was the old Port of Singapore, being naturally sheltered by the southern islands. Historically, the city of Singapore initially grew around the port so the river mouth became the centre of trade, commerce and finance. To this day, area around the old Singapore River mouth, the Downtown Core, remains the most expensive and economically important piece of land in Singapore. At one time, Singapore River was the very lifeblood of the colony, the trade artery, the centre of commercial activity, the heart of ...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Education and early works. Shelley was the son of Sir Timothy Shelley, later the 2nd baronet of Castle Goring, and his wife Elizabeth Pilfold. He grew up in Sussex, and received his early education at home, tutored by Reverend Thomas Edwards of Horsham. In 1802, he entered the Sion House Academy of Brentford. In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College, and on April 10, 1810 he went to the University of Oxford (University College). His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810) ...

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A civil code is a systematic compilation of laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of private law. Civil code - History. Civil code - European codes and influences on other continents. The idea of codification emerged during the age of enlightenment, when it was believed that all spheres of life could be dealt with in a conclusive system based on human rationality. The first attempts at codification were made in the second half of the 18th century, when the Ge ...

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Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyGR6. It is nicknamed "The Queen City" (also "The Queen of the West," "The Blue Chip City," "The City of Seven Hills" and "Cincinnata") and is sometimes abbreviated to "Cincy", "Cinci", or "Cinti". As of the 2000 census, Cincinnati had a total population of 331,285, making it the third largest city in Ohio. It has a much l ...

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Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise in the east, Cimetière de Passy ...

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Nelson Mandela is a famous Xhosa-speaker. Western Cape: 1.1 million, Gauteng: 0.7 million, Free State: 0.25 million, Kwazulu-Natal: 0.22 million (2001 est. 1) The Xhosa people are a group of peoples of Bantu origins living in south-east South Africa. Xhosa - Location. The Xhosa population mainly lives in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, although they are found throughout the country. The population is centralized in the Ciskei and Transkei regio ...

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The National Geodetic Survey is the successor agency in the United States to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. It was first established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast. Progress moved ahead slowly and haltingly during the first 25 years. Not until August 29, 1811 did Mr. F. R. Hassler sail for Europe to obtain the proper instruments. He remained in Europe during the War of 1812, then he returned ...

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A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). The term also applies to a composition for such a group. Unlike the string quartet with its homogeneous blend of color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and timbre. The modern wind quintet sprang from the ensemble favored in the court of Joseph II in late 18th century Vienna: 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 oboes, and 2 bassoons. Th ...

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William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. Harrison first gained national fame as a war hero, defeating American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "T ...

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