Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). 1814 - Events. January 14 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania, as part of the Treaty of Kiel January 29 - French army of Emperor Napoleon I wins the Battle of Brienne January 31 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. February - Congress ...

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William Temple 1814-1863, William Temple 1814-1863 - Early Life and Family, William Temple 1814-1863 - Political Career, William Temple 1814-1863 - Death and Legacy, William Temple 1814-1863 - Public offices, William Temple 1814-1863 - Election Results, William Temple 1814-1863 - Additions and questions

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1814 in rail transport - Unknown date events. George Stephenson built and operated his first steam locomotive for a coal mine. ...

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1814 in rail transport - September births. September 11 - John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897). 1814 in rail transport - Unknown date births. Andrew Barclay, English steam locomotive builder (d. 1900). ...

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Temple was elected to the State House, and served in the 1845/46 session as Speaker. After the deaths of Governor Thomas Stockton and Acting Governor Joseph Maull he became Acting Governor himself on May 6, 1846. He served until January 19, 1847. No sooner had he inherited the job than came a call to raise troops for the Mexican War, then just beginning. Much of Temple's short tenure was spent on this task. Following his time as Acting Governor he was elected to the Delaware Senate and served from the 1849/50 session through the 1853/ ...

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William Temple 1814-1863, William Temple 1814-1863 - Early Life and Family, William Temple 1814-1863 - Political Career, William Temple 1814-1863 - Death and Legacy, William Temple 1814-1863 - Public offices, William Temple 1814-1863 - Election Results, William Temple 1814-1863 - Additions and questions

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From 1832 until 1896 elections were held on the first Tuesday of November of the year noted. Terms for members of the General Assembly began on the first Tuesday in January of the following year. Except for special sessions, they met for a few weeks in even numbered years only, adjourning for two years in February. The members of the State House had a term of two years and members of the State Senate had a term of four years. Three State Senators and seven State Representatives were elected at large from each county. The Governor was elected at the same time. His term began the third Tuesday in January of the followi ...

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William Temple 1814-1863, William Temple 1814-1863 - Early Life and Family, William Temple 1814-1863 - Political Career, William Temple 1814-1863 - Death and Legacy, William Temple 1814-1863 - Public offices, William Temple 1814-1863 - Election Results, William Temple 1814-1863 - Additions and questions

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Ngapuhi controlled the Bay of Islands, the first point of contact for most Europeans visiting New Zealand in the early 19th century. Hongi Hika protected early missionaries and European seamen and settlers, arguing the benefits of trade. He befriended Thomas Kendall - one of three lay preachers sent by the Church Missionary Society to establish a Christian toehold in New Zealand. In 1814 Hongi Hika visited Sydney with Kendall and met Samuel Marsden. Hongi Hika invited Marsden to establish the first Anglican mission to New Zealand in N ...

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Hongi Hika, Hongi Hika - Birth, Hongi Hika - Early campaigns 1806-1814, Hongi Hika - Contact with Europeans and journey to Australia 1814-1818, Hongi Hika - Wives, Hongi Hika - Bay of Plenty campaign 1818-1819, Hongi Hika - Journey to England 1819-1821, Hongi Hika - Campigns against Ngati Whatua Waikato and Rotorua 1821-1825, Hongi Hika - Waimate to Whangaroa 1826-1827, Hongi Hika - Injury and death 1827-1828, Hongi Hika - Legacy

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. August 10 - Events. 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...

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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). There are 271 days remaining. April 4 - Events. 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I. 1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom. 1814 - Napo ...

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Charles XIII (Swe: Karl XIII) (October 7, 1748 – 1818), was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway (where he was known as Charles II) from 1814 until his death. He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great. Charles XIII of Sweden - Life and politics. In 1772 he co-operated in the revolutionary plans of his brother Gustav III of Sweden. On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distincti ...

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Charenton was an insane asylum, founded in 1645 by the Frères de la Charité in Charenton-Saint-Maurice (now Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne), France. Charenton was known for its humanitarian treatment of patients, especially under its director Abbé de Coulmier in the early 19th century. The Marquis de Sade was held at the Charenton asylum until his death in 1814 at the age of 74. The noted Belgian-born musicologist and composer Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny also died at the Charenton asylum, in 1842. Today, the name of the psychiatric hospital is Esquirol hospital, after Jean-Etienne Dominique E ...

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Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 – 8 January 1874) was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. His writings, publications, and recovery of historical documents contributed much to the later understanding of the region's languages, writing, history and culture (in particular, that of the Maya and Aztec). Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Early life and writings. < ...

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For the surrealist painter, see William Howe (painter). Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (August 10, 1729-July 12, 1814) was a British General who was Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American Revolutionary War, one of the three Howe brothers. He was knighted after his successes in 1775 and was henceforth Sir William, inheriting the viscountcy only upon his brother's death in 1799. William was born in England, the third son of Emmanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe and Mary Sophia, the daughter of Baro ...

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William Howe 5th Viscount Howe - Bunker Hill William Howe 5th Viscount Howe - The battle for New York
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Warfare was an integral part of Maori culture. Hongi Hika rose to prominence as a military leader in the Ngapuhi campaign lead by Pokaia against the Te Roroa hapu of Ngati Whatua iwi in 1806-1808. In the 150 years after New Zealand was first discovered, European weapons had not been adopted by Maori. Ngapuhi conducted the first known Maori trials with firearms in 1808. Hongi Hika was present on the first occasion muskets were used in action, at the battle of Moremonui in 1808. The Ngapuhi using them were over run by Ngati Whatua while reload ...

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Hongi Hika, Hongi Hika - Birth, Hongi Hika - Early campaigns 1806-1814, Hongi Hika - Contact with Europeans and journey to Australia 1814-1818, Hongi Hika - Wives, Hongi Hika - Bay of Plenty campaign 1818-1819, Hongi Hika - Journey to England 1819-1821, Hongi Hika - Campigns against Ngati Whatua Waikato and Rotorua 1821-1825, Hongi Hika - Waimate to Whangaroa 1826-1827, Hongi Hika - Injury and death 1827-1828, Hongi Hika - Legacy

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Hongi Hika returned to the Bay of Islands in July 1821. En route he sold the gifts he was given in England and used the money to purchase gunpowder, 300 muskets and other weapons for his iwi. Using these within months of his return he led a force of 2,000 men to attack a pa (Maori fort) at Tamaki, killing 2,000 warriors and their women and children. Deaths in this one action outnumber all in 25 years of the sporadic New Zealand Wars. In early 1822 he lead his force up the Waikato river where after initial success he was defeated by Te ...

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Hongi Hika, Hongi Hika - Birth, Hongi Hika - Early campaigns 1806-1814, Hongi Hika - Contact with Europeans and journey to Australia 1814-1818, Hongi Hika - Wives, Hongi Hika - Bay of Plenty campaign 1818-1819, Hongi Hika - Journey to England 1819-1821, Hongi Hika - Campigns against Ngati Whatua Waikato and Rotorua 1821-1825, Hongi Hika - Waimate to Whangaroa 1826-1827, Hongi Hika - Injury and death 1827-1828, Hongi Hika - Legacy

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The literature on Moreau is copious, the best book being C Jochmus, General Moreau--Abriss einer Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Feldzuge (Berlin, 1814). A more ordinary work is A de Beauchamp, Vie politique, miliitaire, et privée du Général Moreau, translated by Philippart (London, 1814); and there is a curious tract on his death in Russian, translated into English under the title, Some Details Concerning General Moreau and his Last Moments, by Paul Svinin (London, ...

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Following the death of his wife in 1812 he joined the Foreign Service. He was appointed ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Vienna, where he signed the Treaty of Toplitz between Britain and Austria in October 1813. He was one of the British representatives at the Congress of Chatillon in February 1814, and at the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in the following May. Returning home he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Viscount Gordon, of Aberdeen in the County of Aberdeen (1814), and ...

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Henri Nestlé - Birth. Henri Nestlé was born on 10 August, 1814, in Frankfurt, Germany. He was the eleventh of fourteen children of Johann Ulrich Matthias Nestlé and Anna-Maria Catharina Ehemann. Henri Nestlé's father by tradition inherited the business of his father Johann Ulrich Nestlé and became a glazier in Töngesgasse. Henri Nestlé - Name change fr ...

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His own political career began in 1810, when he ran for Governor of Delaware as a Federalist. He lost to the Democratic candidate, Joseph Haslet, by only 71 votes. His next campaign, in 1813, was against James Riddle of New Castle, and largely because of the unpopularity of the War of 1812, he was successful. He served as Governor of Delaware from January 18, 1814, to January 21, 1817. The last year of the War of 1812 was as unnerving as the others had been. The British naval presence off the coast was more intermittent, but Indian Ri ...

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Stevens was born in Danville, Vermont. He suffered from many hardships during his childhood, including a club foot. His father was an alcoholic who was unable to hold a steady job and who abandoned the family before dying in the War of 1812. However, Stevens managed to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1814, he moved to York, Pennsylvania, where he taught school and studied law. After admission to the bar, he established a successful law practice, ...

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