Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1832 - Events. February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands February 12 – Cholera breaks out in London, claiming at least 3000 victims. It spreads to France and North America later this year. April 6 - USA: The Black Hawk War begins. May 7 - The Treaty of London creates an independent Kin ...

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1832 in rail transport - May events. May 23 - The Festinog Railway Company Incorporated by Act of Parliament to build a railway from Festiniog to Portmadoc in the United Kingdom for the carriage of slate and other minerals. 1832 in rail transport - July events. July 25 - A cable snaps on an incline of the Granite Railway causing the first rail transp ...

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Before 1832, an Act of Henry VIII stipulated that only the corpses of executed murderers could be used for dissection. By the early 19th century, the rise of medical science had caused demand to outstrip supply. As early as about 1810 an anatomical society was formed, to impress on the government the necessity for an alteration in the law. Among the members were John Abernethy, Charles Bell, Everard Home, Benjamin Brodie, Astley Cooper and Henry Cline. The efforts of this body gave rise to a 1828 select committee to report on the question. Details of the evi ...

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Reform Act 1832 - Disenfranchised and rotten Boroughs. The following 56 Parliamentary Boroughs, in England, were completely disenfranchised by the Act. They had all returned two members, except for Higham Ferrers which was a single member constituency. The disenfranchised Boroughs lost all independent legislative representation, instead the inhabitants could only vote as part of the county electorate. Aldborough, North Riding of Yorkshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amersham, Buckinghamshire ...

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In May, 1832, British Foreign Secretary Palmerston convened the three Great Powers Great Britain, France and Russia who determined that Greece would be a monarchy and offered the throne to the Bavarian Prince, Otto Wittelsbach, without regard to Greek views on this. The line of succession was also established which would pass the crown to the heirs of Otto, or his younger brothers in succession, should he have no heirs. In no case would the crowns of Greece and Bavaria be joined. As co-guarantors of the monarchy, the Great Powers also empowered their Ambassadors in the O ...

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London Conference of 1832, London Conference of 1832 - Conference of London, London Conference of 1832 - Protocol of London, London Conference of 1832 - Sources

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The Act provided that anyone intending to practise anatomy must obtain a licence from the Home Secretary. As a matter of fact only one or two teachers in each institution took out this licence and were known as licensed teachers. They accepted the whole responsibility for the proper treatment of all bodies dissected in the building for which their licence is granted. Regulating these licensed teachers, and receiving constant reports from them, were four inspectors of anatomy, one each for England, Scotland, Ireland and London, who rep ...

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Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 - after 1888) is most well known as the Union soldier who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was born in England in 1832. Along with his family, he moved to New York City in 1839. He eventually became a hatter in Troy, New York. There has been speculation that the use of mercury as part of the hatter's trade was a cause of Corbett's later mental problems. Corbett married, but his wife died in childbirth. Following her death, he moved to Boston and continued working ...

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The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. (Until the Act of Union of 1707 joining the Kingdoms of Scotland and England (to form the Kingdom of Great Britain), Scotland had its own Parliament (see Scottish Parliament), and the term refers to the English House of Commons (which included representatives from Wales from the 16th century). From 1707 to 1832 the term refers to the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Great BritainIncluding:

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The following counties were divided into two districts, each with 2 MPs: Cornwall Cheshire Cumberland Derbyshire Devon County Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Wiltshire Worceste ...

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Whig history is a pejorative name given to a view of history that is shared by a number of eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers on historical subjects. It takes its name from the British Whigs, advocates of the power of Parliament, who opposed the Tories, advocates of the power of the King and the aristocracy. The phrase was coined by the British historian Herbert Butterfield in 1931, in his small but influential book The Whig Interpretation of History. The characteristics of Whig history as seen by Butterfi ...

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Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American diplomat, author, and educator, most known as the co-founder of Cornell University. He was born in Homer, New York on Nov. 7, 1832 and was educated at Yale University where he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends. He was also a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity while at Yale, serving as ed ...

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831), was a United States Supreme Court decision. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia - Background. On December 20, 1828, Georgia, fearful that the United States would be unable to effect the removal of the Cherokee Nation, enacted a series of oppressive laws which stripped the Cherokee of their rights and were calculated to force the Cherokee to remove. In this climate, John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation led a delegation to Washington in January 1829 t ...

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Cerussite (also known as Horn silver, Lead carbonate, White lead ore) is a mineral consisting of lead carbonate (PbCO3), and an important ore of lead. The name is from the Latin cerussa, white lead. Cerussa nativa was mentioned by K Gesner in 1565, and in 1832 FS Beudant applied the name cruse to the mineral, whilst the present form, cerussite, is due to W. Haidinger (1845). Miners' names ...

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Various European and Native American languages regionally The Confederate States of America—also referred to as the Confederate States, CSA, the Confederacy and Dixie (colloquially)—was a country that existed between 1861 and 1865 in North America, comprising states that seceded from the United States of America. The territory of the CSA consisted of most of the southeastern portion of today's United States. As its existence was contested by the United States for the whole of its b ...

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Reform Act 1832 - Disenfranchised and rotten Boroughs. The following 56 Parliamentary Boroughs, in England, were completely disenfranchised by the Act. They had all returned two members, except for Higham Ferrers which was a single member constituency. The disenfranchised Boroughs lost all independent legislative representation, instead the inhabitants could only vote as part of the county electorate. Aldborough, North Riding of Yorkshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amersham, Buckinghamshire ...

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His career in the New York Senate covered two terms (1812–1820). In 1815 he became the state attorney general, an office which he held, still as a member of the Senate, until 1819, when he was displaced to make room for a Federalist. He had already, in 1808, moved from Kinderhook to Hudson, and in 1816 he took up his residence in Albany, where he continued to reside until he entered Jackson's cabinet in 1829. As a member of the state Senate he supported the War of 1812 and drew up a classification act for the enrollment of volunteer ...

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His career in the New York Senate covered two terms (1812–1820). In 1815 he became the state attorney general, an office which he held, still as a member of the Senate, until 1819, when he was displaced to make room for a Federalist. He had already, in 1808, moved from Kinderhook to Hudson, and in 1816 he took up his residence in Albany, where he continued to reside until he entered Jackson's cabinet in 1829. As a member of the state Senate he supported the War of 1812 and drew up a classification act for the enrollment of volunteer ...

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Baldwin was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, the third of five children to a successful carriage builder. His father, William Baldwin, died in 1799. In 1811 he entered an apprenticeship in Frankford, Pennsylvania, to learn jewelry making; he changed employers in 1817 to work with the company of Fletcher and Gardner in Philadelphia. Two years later, in 1819, he had used his jewelry-making knowledge to devise and pa ...

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Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad - Pre-DL&W: 1832-1853. The Liggett's Gap Railroad was incorporated on April 7, 1832, but stayed dormant for many years. It was chartered on March 14, 1849 and organized January 2, 1850. On April 14, 1851 its name was changed to the Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The line, running north from Scranton, Pennsylvania to Great Bend, just south of the New York state line, opened on December 20, 1851. From Great Bend the L&W obtained trackage rights north ...

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