Encyclopedia - 1868: Encyclopedia - 1868
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1868: Encyclopedia Ii - 1868 - Events
1868 - January—April. January 3 - Meiji Emperor declares "Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the support...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1868 In Rail Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - 1868 In Rail Transport - Births
1868 in rail transport - May births. May 26 - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923â€...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1868: Encyclopedia - 1868
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1868 In Rail Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - 1868 In Rail Transport - Events
1868 in rail transport - January events. January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - History Of Carlism
The history of Carlism can be usefully divided into three different stages. (The dates are only approximative, thus the overlap is intent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - The Origins
Carlism - The dynastic issue. 13th May 1713, Felipe V of Spain, first of the Spanish Bourbons, through an "Auto Acordado" changes the ...   » 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 - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - Pretenders To The Throne
Carlism - Carlos V Maria Isidro. (Aranjuez, 29 March 1788 - Trieste, 10 March 1855). Also known as Count of Molina. Pretender from 1833...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - Carlist Ideological Landscape
Carlism or "Traditionalism" (as is also called) can be labeled as a "counter-revolutionary" movement. Basically, its intellectual landsca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - Carlist Symbols
Carlism - Carlism related words. Bergara/Vergara was the place of the Abrazo de Bergara, which ended the first Carlist war. Brigadas d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlism: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlism - Carlism And Literature
The liberal Spanish journalist Mariano José de Larra opposed Carlism and published several lampoons against it. Nadie pase sin hablar al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Justin Winsor: Encyclopedia Ii - Justin Winsor - Librarian
He served as Trustee of the Boston Public Library, 1867-1868, and Superintendent, 1868-1877. In 1877 he was appointed Librarian of Harvar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alonzo B. Cornell: Encyclopedia Ii - Alonzo B. Cornell - Career
He was a Director of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which had been co-founded by his father, from 1868 to 1876 and was its Vice Pre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Takasugi Shinsaku: Encyclopedia Ii - Takasugi Shinsaku - Early Life
Takasugi Shinsaku, a central figure of Japan’s Meiji Restoration in 1867 and 1868, which became the starting point for Japan’s modern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard H. Bayard: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard H. Bayard - Death And Legacy
Bayard died March 4, 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is buried in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, in Wilmington. He was th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Farrer: Encyclopedia Ii - William Farrer - Early Years
Farrer was born at Docker, Westmorland in the English north west (now Cumbria). He was awarded a scholarship to Christ's Hospital, London...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pioche Nevada: Encyclopedia Ii - Pioche Nevada - History
The first settlement of the area occurred in 1864 with the opening of a silver mine. The area was abandoned for a short time due to hosti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kate Sheppard: Encyclopedia Ii - Kate Sheppard - Early Life
Sheppard was born in Liverpool, England, to Scottish parents. Officially, her name was Catherine Wilson Malcolm, although she generally p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edvard Munch: Encyclopedia Ii - Edvard Munch - Biography
Born on December 12th, 1863, Løten, Norway, Munch grew up in Christiania (now Oslo). He was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776 – 183...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sarawak: Encyclopedia Ii - Sarawak - History
Sarawak had been a loosely governed territory under the control of the Brunei Sultanate in the early 19th century. James Brooke (see figu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thaddeus Stevens: Encyclopedia Ii - Thaddeus Stevens - Death
Thaddeus Stevens died at midnight on August 11th, 1868 in Washington, D.C., less than three months after the acquittal of Johnson by the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wanamaker's: Encyclopedia Ii - Wanamaker's - Beginnings
John Wanamaker, the founder of the store that bears his name, was not able to join the Union army during the US Civil War due to a persis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seppuku: Encyclopedia Ii - Seppuku - The Western Experience
The first recorded time a Westerner saw formal seppuku was the "Sakai Incident" of 1868. On February 15, twenty French sailors of the Dup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hetty Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Hetty Green - Marriage
At the age of 33, she married Edward Henry Green, member of a wealthy Vermont family. She made him renounce all rights to her money befor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lincoln Memorial: Encyclopedia Ii - Lincoln Memorial - Other Lincoln Memorials In Washington D.c.
The Lincoln Memorial was preceded by three earlier remarkable memorials to Lincoln in the capital. The first Lincoln statue in the US, in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francis E. Warren: Encyclopedia Ii - Francis E. Warren - Business And Politics
Following the Civil War, Warren engaged in farming and stock-raising in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming (then part of the Territor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1824 In Rail Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - 1824 In Rail Transport - Births
1824 in rail transport - March births. March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California 1824 in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1944: Encyclopedia Ii - 1944 - Deaths
For more 1944 deaths see Category:1944 deaths 1944 - January-May. January 1 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862) January 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Declining Years And Death
When Hugo returned to Paris in 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He went on to weather, within a brief period, the Siege o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victor Hugo: Encyclopedia Ii - Victor Hugo - Declining Years And Death
When Hugo returned to Paris in 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He went on to weather, within a brief period, the Siege o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Billy The Kid: Encyclopedia Ii - Billy The Kid - Brushy Bill
In 1950, a lawyer named William Morrison located a man named Ollie P. Roberts, nick-named Brushy Bill, who claimed to be the actual Billy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Leaving The Medieval World
Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelik II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron: Encyclopedia Ii - George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron - Post-mortem
Upon his death, the barony passed to a cousin, George Anson Byron (1789–1868), a career military officer and Byron's polar opposite in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buffalo Bill: Encyclopedia Ii - Buffalo Bill - Nickname And Work Life
He assumed his nickname for supplying Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. The nickname originally referred to Bill Comstoc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Billy The Kid: Encyclopedia Ii - Billy The Kid - Biography
Little is known about McCarty's background but he was probably born in New York City. His parents were of Irish descent, having likely fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Billy The Kid: Encyclopedia Ii - Billy The Kid - Brushy Bill
In 1950, a lawyer named William Morrison located a man named Ollie P. Roberts, nick-named Brushy Bill, who claimed to be the actual Billy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1816 In Rail Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - 1816 In Rail Transport - Births
1816 in rail transport - January births. January 3 - Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863-18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ethiopia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ethiopia - Leaving The Medieval World
Under the Emperors Tewodros II (1855 - 1868), Yohannes IV (1872 - 1889), and Menelek II (1889 - 1913), the kingdom began to emerge from i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prince Louis Of Battenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Prince Louis Of Battenberg - Naval Career
In 1868, at the age of fourteen, Prince Louis became a naturalized British subject and joined the Royal Navy. He began his career as a mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umberto I Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Umberto I Of Italy - Youth
The son of Vittorio Emanuele II and of Adelaide, archduchess of Austria, Humbert was born in Turin, then capital of the kingdom of Sardin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Dunant: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Dunant - Forgotten Period
Dunant's businesses in Algeria had suffered, partially because of his devotion to his ideas. In April 1867, the bankruptcy of the financi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Bowring: Encyclopedia Ii - John Bowring - Personal Life
Bowring had three sons. His second son, Lewin Bowring, presented Bowring's collection of coleoptera to the British Museum after Bowring's...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcel Junod: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcel Junod - Childhood And Education
Marcel Junod was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland as the fifth of seven children, to Richard Samuel Junod (1868-1919) and Jeanne Marguerit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Ford: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Ford - Early Life
Ford was born on a prosperous farm in Springwells Township (now in the city of Dearborn, Michigan) owned by his parents, William Ford (18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1942: Encyclopedia Ii - 1942 - Deaths
1942 - January. January 6 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876) January 14 - Porfirio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Ãœber Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Presidential Line Of Succession: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Presidential Line Of Succession - No Historical Successions Beyond Vice President
While nine Vice Presidents have succeeded to the office upon the death or resignation of the President, no lower officer has ever been ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Duke Of Saxe-coburg And Gotha: Encyclopedia Ii - Alfred Duke Of Saxe-coburg And Gotha - Command Assignments
While still in command of the Galatea, the Duke of Edinburgh started from Plymouth on January 24, 1867 for his voyage round the world. On...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Presidential Line Of Succession: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Presidential Line Of Succession - No Historical Successions Beyond Vice President
While nine Vice Presidents have succeeded to the office upon the death or resignation of the President, no lower officer has ever been ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zheng Zhenduo: Encyclopedia Ii - Zheng Zhenduo - Contribution To Literature
Zheng Zhenduo - Translation. Zheng was proficient in foreign languages including English, Russian, Indian, Greek and Roma. He did a gre...   » Read the article