Encyclopedia - 1848: Encyclopedia - 1848
1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Spo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Elections In The Province Of Canada: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Elections In The Province Of Canada - 1848
By 1848, the Reformers were popular once more in Canada West. Due to the problems of the last parliament, the Governor General was ordere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustin Louis Cauchy: Encyclopedia - Augustin Louis Cauchy
Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 2004: Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 2004
The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 2000: Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 2000
The U.S. presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest elections in U.S. history, decided by only 527 votes in the swing state of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1939: Encyclopedia - 1939
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1934: Encyclopedia - 1934
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1933: Encyclopedia - 1933
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1933 - Events. January 3 - Japanese troops occ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1849: Encyclopedia - 1849
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 1860: Encyclopedia - U.s. Presidential Election, 1860
The U.S. presidential election of 1860 is widely considered to be a realigning election. The nation had been divided through most of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1896: Encyclopedia - 1896
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1930: Encyclopedia - 1930
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. 1930 - Events. January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millard Fillmore: Encyclopedia Ii - Millard Fillmore - Biography
Millard Fillmore - Early life. Fillmore was born in extreme poverty to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard in Summerhill, New York as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Millard Fillmore: Encyclopedia Ii - Millard Fillmore - Presidency
Thus the sudden ascension of Fillmore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1903: Encyclopedia - 1903
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1915: Encyclopedia - 1915
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1915 - Events. January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1907: Encyclopedia - 1907
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wedne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1920: Encyclopedia - 1920
1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1922: Encyclopedia - 1922
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1922 - Events. January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-lega...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1925: Encyclopedia - 1925
1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1925 - Events. January 3 - Benito Mussolini an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1914: Encyclopedia - 1914
1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar) 1914 - Events. January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to deat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitive Neuropsychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Cognitive Neuropsychology - History
The modern science of cognitive neuropsychology emerged during the 1960s. However there have been a series of influential studies during ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Confederation: Encyclopedia Ii - Confederation - List Of Entities Considered To Be Confederations
Note that historical confederations, especially those that predate the 20th century, may not fit the current definition of a confederatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Stumpf: Encyclopedia - Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 - 25 December 1936) was a philosopher and psychologist. He studied with Franz Brentano and Rudolf Hermann Lotz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Collodi: Encyclopedia - Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890), better known as Carlo Collodi, or simply Collodi, was an Italian writer and journ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia - Carlism
Carlism is a conservative, legitimist political movement in Spain seeking, among other things, the establishment of a separate line of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Castrato: Encyclopedia - Castrato
Male ranges Sopranist Alto Tenor Baritenor Baritone Bass-baritone Bass A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celluloid: Encyclopedia - Celluloid
Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents, generally regarded to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Von Clausewitz: Encyclopedia - Carl Von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 - November 16, 1831) was a Prussian general and influential military theorist. He is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canton Of Schwyz: Encyclopedia - Canton Of Schwyz
Schwyz (German Schwyz) is a canton in central Switzerland between Lake Lucerne in the south and Lake Zurich in the north. In Schwyz, in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parliament Of Canada: Encyclopedia - Parliament Of Canada
Canada This article is part of the series: Politics of Canada Executive The Crown (Queen Elizabeth II) Governor General (Michaëlle Jea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - California Gold Rush: Encyclopedia - California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by mass hysteria concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canterbury New Zealand: Encyclopedia - Canterbury New Zealand
The New Zealand region of Canterbury is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains. Its main city, Christchur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canton Of Lucerne: Encyclopedia - Canton Of Lucerne
Lucerne (German Luzern) is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the centre of Switzerland. The population is 350,600 (as of 2001)....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canton Of Zug: Encyclopedia - Canton Of Zug
Zug (-German; French: Zoug; Italian: Zugo) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It is located in central Switzerland and its capita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantons Of Switzerland: Encyclopedia - Cantons Of Switzerland
The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. Historically and until the mid-19th century, ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cape Agulhas: Encyclopedia - Cape Agulhas
Cape Agulhas is the geographic southern tip of the African continent. The name, Portuguese for needles, refers to the rocks and reefs tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chartism: Encyclopedia - Chartism
Chartism is also an alternative term for technical analysis Chartism was a movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinatown San Francisco California: Encyclopedia - Chinatown San Francisco California
San Francisco's Chinatown is North America's largest Chinatown and the most historic and oldest of Chinatowns. Established in the 1850s, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wyatt Earp: Encyclopedia - Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848–January 13, 1929), was a sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Head Of State: Encyclopedia - Head Of State
Head of state or chief of state is the generic term for the individual or collective office which serves as the chief public representati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chester A. Arthur: Encyclopedia - Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as 21st President of the United States....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chester: Encyclopedia - Chester
Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. It is situated on the River Dee close to the border with Wales, and is one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Views Of Women: Encyclopedia - Christian Views Of Women
Christian views of women vary considerably today and have varied even more throughout the last two millennia, evolving along with or coun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Worcester Massachusetts: Encyclopedia - Worcester Massachusetts
Worcester is a city in Worcester County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America. Its population in the 2000 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Passy: Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Passy
The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimetière Du Montparnasse: Encyclopedia - Cimetière Du Montparnasse
The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 th arrondissement. Crea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vojvodina: Encyclopedia - Vojvodina
 – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)  &...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Feminist Movement: Encyclopedia - Feminist Movement
The Feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement and Women's Liberation) campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woolwich: Encyclopedia - Woolwich
Woolwich ['wʊlɪtʃ] is a town in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cherokee Trail: Encyclopedia - Cherokee Trail
The Cherokee Trail was a historic trail in the present-day U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chelmsford: Encyclopedia - Chelmsford
Chelmsford is a town in the county of Essex, in the United Kingdom.It lies 31 miles (50 km) northeast of London, approximately halfway b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles George Gordon: Encyclopedia - Charles George Gordon
Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 - January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Lyell: Encyclopedia - Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), British lawyer, geologist, and popularizer of uniformitarianism. Charles Lye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Etienne Brasseur De Bourbourg: Encyclopedia - Charles Etienne Brasseur De Bourbourg
Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 – 8 January 1874) was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin: Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by establishing the fact ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zheng He: Encyclopedia - Zheng He
Zheng He (Traditional: 鄭和; Simplified: 郑和; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhèng Hé; Wade-Giles: Cheng Ho; Birth name: 馬三寶 / 马三宝; pin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Pickering Naturalist: Encyclopedia - Charles Pickering Naturalist
Charles Pickering (November 10, 1805 – March 17, 1878) was an American naturalist. Born in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the grands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Wheatstone: Encyclopedia - Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including the English concerti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Young Ireland: Encyclopedia - Young Ireland
Young Ireland was a Irish nationalist revolutionary movement, active in the mid nineteenth century. Young Ireland - History. Young Irela...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charlotte Brontë: Encyclopedia - Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Brontë sisters whose novels hav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yucatán: Encyclopedia - Yucatán
Yucatán is the name of one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The term The Yucatán is also use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chancellor: Encyclopedia - Chancellor
Various governments have a Chancellor who serves as some form of junior or senior minister. Chancellor (Latin: cancellarius), an official...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohemianism: Encyclopedia - Bohemianism
Though a Bohemian is a native of the Czech province of Bohemia, a secondary meaning for bohemian emerged in 19th century France. The term...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Banat: Encyclopedia - Banat
Banat (Romanian: Banat; Serbian: Банат or Banat; German: Banat; Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság; Slovak: Banát) is a geographical an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Assistens Cemetery: Encyclopedia - Assistens Cemetery
The Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegården) is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. Found...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baja California Sur: Encyclopedia - Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur is one of the 31 States of Mexico, occupying the part of the Baja California Peninsula south of the 28th parallel. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Football Soccer: Encyclopedia - Football Soccer
Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlantic Slave Trade: Encyclopedia - Atlantic Slave Trade
by evan haworth-staines The Atlantic slave trade was the capture and transport of black Africans into bondage and servitude in the New Wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Banganapalle: Encyclopedia - Banganapalle
Banganapalle (also Banagana Palli) is a town in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It lies in Kurnool district, 70 km south of the town ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Assamese Language: Encyclopedia - Assamese Language
Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Baudelaire: Encyclopedia - Charles Baudelaire
By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Balfour: Encyclopedia - Arthur Balfour
The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848–19 March 1930) was a British statesman and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wittelsbach: Encyclopedia - Wittelsbach
The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. Wittelsbach - Reign in Germany. The Wittelsbach fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Of Wellington: Encyclopedia - Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke Of Wellington
The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'u'lláh's Family: Encyclopedia - Bahá'u'lláh's Family
Bahá'u'lláh's family covers Bahá'u'lláh's family, in particular his three wives and his children. Bahá'u'lláh (بهاءالله "Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlas Architecture: Encyclopedia - Atlas Architecture
Atlas architecture - Origin. Atlantes originated in ancient Greece and the term is the Latin plural of the word Atlas - the Titan who w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 19: Encyclopedia - August 19
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining. August 19 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 14: Encyclopedia - August 14
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. August 14 - Events. 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 12: Encyclopedia - August 12
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 10: Encyclopedia - August 10
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 20: Encyclopedia - August 20
August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 133 days remaining. August 20 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 7: Encyclopedia - August 7
August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in Nort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Béla Bartók: Encyclopedia - Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bábís: Encyclopedia - Bábís
The Bábís (in Persian بابی ها Bâbihâ) are members of a religious movement that flourished in Persia from 1844 to 1852, then lin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztlán: Encyclopedia - Aztlán
Aztlán ([asˈ.tlan], from Nahuatl Aztlan [ˈas.tɬaːn]) is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec/Mexica. It is represented as a vol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Saint-gaudens: Encyclopedia - Augustus Saint-gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art Sale: Encyclopedia - Art Sale
An Art sale is the practice of selling objects of art by auction. In England this dates from the latter part of the 17th century, when in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art Nouveau: Encyclopedia - Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (French for "new art") is a style in art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Boole: Encyclopedia - George Boole
George Boole [buːl], (November 2, 1815 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England – December 8, 1864 Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland) was a mat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gottlieb Nathaniel Bonwetsch: Encyclopedia - Gottlieb Nathaniel Bonwetsch
Gottlieb (Georg) Nathanael Bonwetsch (5 February 1848–18 July 1925) was a Russian-born German theologian. He became professor of church...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bonaparte: Encyclopedia - Bonaparte
Of Corsican origin, the Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) family is the family of Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of France o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bohermeen: Encyclopedia - Bohermeen
Bohermeen is a Roman Catholic parish in the Irish Diocese of Meath. Its English name is a corruption of an ancient Irish language name, �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boston Public Library: Encyclopedia - Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library was established in 1848. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States. It was als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bourbon Dynasty Restored: Encyclopedia - Bourbon Dynasty Restored
Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The ensuing period i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bruce Codex: Encyclopedia - Bruce Codex
The Bruce Codex (also called the Codex Brucianus) is a gnostic manuscript acquired by the British Museum. In 1769, Lord James Bruce purch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brothers Grimm: Encyclopedia - Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (Gebrüder Grimm) are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German professors best known for publishing collections of authentic fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brigade Of Gurkhas: Encyclopedia - Brigade Of Gurkhas
The Brigade of Gurkhas is the collective term for British Army units that are composed of Nepalese soldiers. They are famous for their ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bratislava: Encyclopedia - Bratislava
Bratislava (until 1919: Prešporok in Slovak, Pressburg in German and English, Pozsony in Hungarian, Požun in Croatian) is the capital o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Otto Von Bismarck: Encyclopedia - Otto Von Bismarck
Chancellor of Germany Count Otto von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898) was one of the most prominent European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop Of Sion: Encyclopedia - Bishop Of Sion
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion (German Bistum Sitten, Latin Dioecesis Sedunensis, French Évêché de Sion), in the Swiss canton of V...   » Read the article