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1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
1826 - Events.
February 8 - Argentina. Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first President of the country.
February 11 - University College London is ...
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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 ...
1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)
1920 - Events.
January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...
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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1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
1897 - Events.
January 1 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City.
January 4 - A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a Punitive Expedition against Benin.
February 2 - Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capitol, is destroyed by fire.
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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.< ...
There are two theories about the origin of the name:-
Cowes and East Cowes derive their names from the time of Henry VIII, when fortifications called cowforts or cowes were built on the east and west banks to dispel a French invasion.
Cowes and West Cowes were named after two sandbanks, one on each side of the River Medina estuary, and recorded in 1413 as Estcowe and Westcowe, which were named after a supposed l ...
Courbevoie is divided into two cantons:
Canton of Courbevoie-Nord: 28,351 inhabitants (40.68% of the total).
Canton of Courbevoie-Sud: 41,343 inhabitants (59.32% of the total).
Courbevoie - Mayors of Courbevoie.
Antoine Le Frique (1800-1818)
Joseph Derbanne (October, 1818-February, 1826)
Nicolas Rousselot (February 1826 - April 1830)
Jean-Baptiste Chevalier (April 1830 - August 1830)
Constant Grebaut (August 1830 - September 1840)
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Elections in Chile - Presidential election 2005/2006.
Main article: Chilean presidential election, 2005
Elections in Chile - Parliamentary election 2005/2006.
1 Only 20 out of 38 seats were contested in this election.
2 These 18 seats were contested in the 2001 election.
Main a ...
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining.
April 1 - Events.
527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English
1572 - The Watergeuzen succeeded in capturing Den Briel, effectively sealing off the Meuse from the Spaniards.
1789 - In New York City, the United States House of R ...
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist.
In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu classified many of the families used today. Prior to him, Linnaeus classified plants into families based on the number of stamens and pistils. This put a lot of unrelated plants together and split some related ones apart. Jussieu classified plants based on a natural system.
Jussieu was born in Lyon, the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. He went to Paris ...
13 April is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April.
April 13 - Events.
1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope
1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the HuguenotsIncluding:
April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining.
April 18 - Events.
1025 - Bolesław I Chrobry is crowned as the first king of Poland.
1042 - Michael V attempts to remain sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire by sending his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë of Byzantium to a monastery.
1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland.
1775 - Two lanterns were hung from the steeple of the ...
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Alfred Victor de Vigny (March 27, 1797 – September 17, 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.
Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family. His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years W ...
April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
April 20 - Events.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion.
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian ...
The Anti-Masonic Party (also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement) was a 19th century minor political party in the United States. As its name suggests, it strongly opposed Freemasonry, but in fact was not a single-issue party, aspiring to become a major party. It was a part of the Second Party System and introduced important new techniques, such as the state convention to select candidates.
Anti-Masonic Party - History.
It was formed in New York City in 1828, and was the first third party in American n ...
Alizarin, or 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone or mordant red, is the red dye originally derived from the root of the madder plant. In 1869, it became the first natural pigment to be duplicated synthetically. Its molecular structure is shown at right.
Madder has been cultivated as a dyestuff since antiquity in central Asia and Egypt, where it was grown as early as 1500 BC. Cloth dyed with madder root pigment was found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and in the ruins of Pompeii and ancient Corinth. In the Middle Ag ...
Aniline, phenylamine or aminobenzene (C6H5NH2) is an organic chemical compound which is a primary aromatic amine consisting of a benzene ring and an amino group. The chemical structure of aniline is shown at the right.
Aniline - Synthesis.
Aniline can be produced from benzene in two steps. First, benzene is nitrated (reacted with nitric acid, a form of electrophilic substitution reaction) to give nitrobenzene. Second, the nitrobenzene is reduced to give aniline ...
April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining.
April 26 - Events.
1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh S ...
