Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1817 - Events. March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April - Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England Battle of Maipú, secures chilean independence. May - The G ...

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1817 - Unknown dates. Elgin Marbles displayed in British Museum Emperor Ninko ascends to the throne of Japan John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1817 - Events. March 4 - James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April - Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 - Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England Battle of Maipú, secures chilean independence. May - The G ...

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See also: 1815 in music, other events of 1816, 1817 in music and the list of 'years in music'. 1816 in music - Events. Louise Reichardt becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lubeck. Carl Maria von Weber is appointed Kappellmeister at Dresden. 1816 in music - Classical music. Requiem in C-minor - Luigi Cherubini Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen - Franz Schubert ...

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June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. June 5 - Events. 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem. 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected. 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. 1817 - Firs ...

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1817 in rail transport - October births. October 2 - Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company (d. 1883). October 17 - Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad 1864-1887 (d. 1887)[1] 1817 in rail transport - Unknown date births. Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (d. 1877) Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Sche ...

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Meanwhile Hall pursued his law practice in Lewes and entered politics. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat-Republican, like most Presbyterians, but in Anglican Lewes, he must have been very much in the minority. He was badly beaten by Federalist Richard Bassett, when he ran for Governor in 1798. Running again in 1801 against Episcopalian Nathaniel Mitchell, a professed "Deist," and a person openly critical of Methodists. Hall emphasized his Presbyterian faith, and in spite of losing Kent and Sussex Counties again badly, he won Presbyterian New Ca ...

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From 1792 until 1831 elections were held on the first Tuesday of October 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, adjourning for the year in early February. The members of the State House had a term of one year and members of the State Senate had a term of three 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 following ye ...

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William Holden (17 April 1918 - November 1981), was an Oscar winning American film actor. William Holden actor - Early life and career. Born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois on April 17, 1918, he was the eldest of three sons of William Franklin Beedle, Sr., an industrial chemist, and Mary Blanche Ball, a teacher. The family, who moved to Pasadena, California when he was three, was of English descent; Holden's paternal great-grandmother, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, ...

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Farragut was born to Jordi and Elizabeth Farragut at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tennessee, where his father was serving as a cavalry officer in the Tennessee militia. Jordi Farragut Mesquida (1755–1817), originally a merchant captain from Minorca when the island was under British rule, had previously joined the American Revolutionary cause. David's birth name was James, but it was changed in 1812, following his adoption by future naval Captain David Porter in 1808 (which made him the f ...

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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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The birth of Princess Elizabeth was a significant event in 19th century Britain. Her father, the Duke of Clarence, was the second in line to the throne following the death of Elizabeth's cousin, Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1817, and their grandfather George III in 1820. Since the Duke's two elder brothers, King George IV and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany were both without legitimate children, and the King was estranged from his wife and the Duke of York unmarried, it seemed likely that Princess Elizabeth would succeed as Queen ...

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After leaving office, Madison retired to Montpelier, his tobacco plantation in Virginia, not far from Jefferson's Monticello. He engaged in extensive correspondence on political affairs, and served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia for 17 years. Upon the death of Thomas Jefferson in 1826, Madison became the Rector of the University of Virginia and served for the next 10 years until his own death. This occured on June 28, 1836 due to rheumatism and heart failure. He left no children. His detailed notes on the Constitution ...

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George IV died in 1830 and was buried in Windsor Castle. His daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, had died from post-partum complications in 1817, after delivering a still-born son; his eldest younger brother, Frederick, the Duke of York, also pre-deceased him in 1827. He was therefore succeeded by another of his brothers, William, Duke of Clarence, who reigned as William IV. On George's death The Times commented unfavourably: There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king. Wh ...

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Every one thought that Czartoryski, who more than any other man had prepared the way for the Congress Kingdom, would be its first governor-general, but he was content with the title of senator-palatine and a share in the administration. In 1817 the prince married Anna Sapiezanko, the wedding leading to a duel with his rival Pac. On the death of his father in 1823 he retired to his ancestral castle at Puławy; but the Revolution of 1830 brought him back to public life. As president of the provisional government he summoned (December 18, 1830) ...

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McKean died June 24, 1817 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was first buried in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Philadelphia. In 1843 his body was moved to the Laurel Hill Cemetery, also in Philadelphia. Thomas McKean High School in New Castle County, Delaware is named in his honor, as is McKean Street in Philadelphia and McKean County, Pennsylvania. McKean was over six feet tall, always wore a large cocked hat and carried a gold headed cane. He was a man of quick temper and vigorous personality, "with a thin face, hawk's no ...

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Royalty and urban legends - The complex succession. When Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales the only daughter and Heiress Presumptive of King George IV of the United Kingdom, died in childbirth in 1817, her death triggered off a battle between the King's brothers to see who could father a legitimate heir who would eventually inherit the throne. Most of the brothers had led complex personal lives; Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex had contracted two marriages in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act ...

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