Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years, longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she was also the first monarch to use the title Empress of India. The reign of Victoria was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. The Victorian Era was at ...

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Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III. The Duke of Kent and Strathearn, like many other sons of George III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son, the Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. When she died in 1817, the remaining unmarried sons of King George III scrambled to marry (the Prince Regent and the Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...

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1861 - January. January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War. January 10 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the United States January 11 - American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the U ...

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1858 - Month/day unknown. Percy Andreae, American anti-prohibition leader (d. ?) ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1840 - Events. January 3 - One of the predecessor papers to the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded by George Cavanaugh. January 10 - Uniform penny postage introduced in the UK. January 13 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks ...

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1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1861 - Events. January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding t ...

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1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1858 - Events. January 14 - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a br ...

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Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century. This usage is strong within social history and literature, less so in philosophy. Many disciplines do not use the term, but instead prefer Victorian Era, or simply "Late 19th century". Victorianism as a word is often specifically directed at Victorian morality. Victorianism - Brief History. The succession of William IV of the United Kingdom by his niece Victoria of the United Kingdom on 20 J ...

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Kalākaua — born as David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua and called The Merrie Monarch (November 12, 1836 - January 20, 1891) — was the last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. He served his office from February 12, 1874 until his death in San Francisco, California on January 20, 1891. Kalākaua - Early life. He was the eldest son of KapaIncluding:

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August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 137 days remaining. August 16 - Events. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina. 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the ...

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King William III (Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk of Orange-Nassau) (February 17, 1817 – November 23, 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1849–1890). William III of the Netherlands - Early life. William was born in Brussels as son of William II of the Netherlands and Queen Anna, sister of Tsar Alexander I of Russia. In his early years, he served in the military. He married Sophie, daughter of King William I of Württemberg, in 1839. This marriage was un ...

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Alfonso XIII of Spain (May 17, 1886 – February 28, 1941), King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, was proclaimed King at his birth. He reigned from 1886-1931. His mother, Queen Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority. In 1902, on attaining his 16th year, the King assumed control of the government. The growth of the young monarch is portraited in the periodical issuing of peseta coins. On May 31, 1906 he married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), a nie ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1837 - Events. January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate February 11 - American Physiological Societ ...

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Although formally The Son of Heaven, the power of the emperor varied between different emperors and different dynasties, with some emperors being absolute rulers and others being figureheads with actual power in the hands of court factions, eunuchs, the bureaucracy or noble families. In addition, royal or official titles from one dynasty generally were not carried over to the next dynasty. The title of emperor was transmitted from father to son. Usually the first-born son of the queen inherited the office, but this rule was not univer ...

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The crown followed standard design for British crowns. It was made up of four half-arches, which met at a monde, on which sat a cross. Each half-arch ran from the monde down to a cross pattee along the band at the bottom. Between each cross pattee was a fleur-de-lis. However because of its small size (9 centimetres across and 10 centimetres high) Victoria's small diamond crown possesses no internal cloth cap. < ...

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Within the greater Charlottetown area, there are many different neighbourhoods of varying degrees of wealth. Located in close proximity to downtown, with many houses overlooking the Charlottetown harbour Brighton is Charlottetown's most prestigious neighborhood. Made up of some houses as old as 100 years, as well as continuing new development from the 1970's to today. Technically, all streets south of North River Road form Brighton. However, houses closest to the water tend to be larger, the most prestigious as well as the most ...

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She was born in Athens, Greece on November 2, 1938, as Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark , the eldest child of the King of the Hellenes, Paul I (1901-1964) and his wife, the former Frederika, Princess of Hanover (1917-1981). Both her parents were descendants of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and despite her country of birth, the family tree on both sides is almost exclusively German and Danish in origin. The Greek royal house is a cadet branch of the Danish royal family of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which is itself a branch of the House of Oldenburg. Her brother ...

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Within the greater charlottetown area there are many different neighborhoods, of varying degrees of wealth. Located in close proximity to downtown, with many houses overlooking the Charlottetown harbour Brighton is Charlottetown's most prestigious neighborhood. Made up of some houses as old as 100 years, as well as continuing new development from the 1970's to today. Technically, all streets south of North River Road form Brighton. However, houses closest to the water tend to be larger, the most prestigious as well as the most ...

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William repeatedly contemplated abdicating as soon as his son turned eighteen. This occurred in 1858, but as William was uncomfortable making a decision he remained King. His first act was the inauguration of the parliamentary cabinet of Thorbecke, the liberal designer of the 1848 constitution; William loathed this man. When the Catholic hierarchy of bishops was restored in 1853 he found a reason to dismiss his rival. In the first two decades of his reign he dismissed several cabinets and disbanded the States-General several times, installing royal cabinets which rule ...

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William III of the Netherlands, William III of the Netherlands - Early life, William III of the Netherlands - Reign, William III of the Netherlands - Children

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On 23 March 1874 at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, the Grand Duchess Marie married His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, a career naval officer. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh made their public entry into London on 12 March. The marriage, however, was not a happy one, and the bride was thought haughty by London society. Furthermore, Tsar Alexander II's insistence that his daughter be styled "Her Imperial Highness" and have precedence over the then Princess of Wales infuriated Queen Victoria. The Queen insisted that style "Her Roya ...

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