1.
2nd millennium
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The second millennium was a period of time that began on January 1,1001 and ended on December 31,2000 of the Gregorian calendar. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Renaissance saw the beginning of the migration of humans from Europe, Africa. The interwoven international trade led to the formation of multi-national corporations, international business ventures reduced the impact of nationalism in popular thought. The world population doubled over the first seven centuries of the millennium, consequently, unchecked human activity had considerable social and environmental consequences, giving rise to extreme poverty, climate change and biotic crisis. The 2nd millennium was a period of time began on January 1,1001. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Julian calendar was used in Europe at the beginning of the millennium, so the end date is always calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, but the beginning date is usually according to the Julian calendar. Stephen Jay Gould argued that it is not possible to decide if the millennium ended on December 31,1999, or December 31,2000. The second millennium is perhaps more popularly thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999. Many public celebrations for the end of the millennium were held on December 31,1999 – January 1, the civilizations in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. The events in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme, the people in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. See also Lists of people by nationality Category, People by century Category, People by nationality and period Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper, Henry Gottlieb, Barbar Bowers,1,000 Years,1,000 People, Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
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2.
18th century
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The 18th century lasted from January 1,1701 to December 31,1800 in the Gregorian calendar. During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French, philosophy and science increased in prominence. Philosophers dreamed of a brighter age and this dream turned into a reality with the French Revolution of 1789-, though later compromised by the excesses of the Reign of Terror under Maximilien Robespierre. At first, many monarchies of Europe embraced Enlightenment ideals, but with the French Revolution they feared losing their power, the Ottoman Empire experienced an unprecedented period of peace and economic expansion, taking part in no European wars from 1740 to 1768. The 18th century also marked the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as an independent state, the once-powerful and vast kingdom, which had once conquered Moscow and defeated great Ottoman armies, collapsed under numerous invasions. European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as the Age of Sail continued. Great Britain became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in North America in the 1760s, however, Britain lost many of its North American colonies after the American Revolution, which resulted in the formation of the newly independent United States of America. The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the 1770s with the production of the steam engine. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, steam-powered machinery would radically change human society, western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. To historians who expand the century to include larger historical movements, 1700-1721, Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire. 1701, Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I,1701, Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei Kofi Tutu I. 1701–1714, The War of the Spanish Succession is fought, involving most of continental Europe, 1701–1702, The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post become the first daily newspapers in England. 1702, Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan,1703, Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great, it is the Russian capital until 1918. 1703–1711, The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy,1704, End of Japans Genroku period. 1704, First Javanese War of Succession,1705, George Frideric Handels first opera, Almira, premieres. 1706, War of the Spanish Succession, French troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies,1706, The first English-language edition of the Arabian Nights is published. 1707, The Act of Union is passed, merging the Scottish and English Parliaments,1707, After Aurangzebs death, the Mughal Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha Empire slowly replaces it. 1707, Mount Fuji erupts in Japan for the first time since 1700,1707, War of 27 Years between the Marathas and Mughals ends in India
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Washington crossing the Delaware, December 25, 1776, an iconic event of the
American Revolution
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Political boundaries in 1700
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Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, an iconic event of the
French Revolution
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Development of the
Watt steam engine in the late 18th century was an important element in the
Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.
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19th century
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The 19th century was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, Napoleonic, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. After the defeat of the French Empire and its allies in the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian Empire expanded in central and far eastern Asia. By the end of the century, the British Empire controlled a fifth of the worlds land, the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and spread to continental Europe, North America and Japan. The Victorian era was notorious for the employment of children in factories and mines, as well as strict social norms regarding modesty. Japan embarked on a program of rapid modernization following the Meiji Restoration, before defeating China, under the Qing Dynasty, europes population doubled during the 19th century, from approximately 200 million to more than 400 million. Numerous cities worldwide surpassed populations of a million or more during this century, London became the worlds largest city and capital of the British Empire. Its population increased from 1 million in 1800 to 6.7 million a century later, liberalism became the pre-eminent reform movement in Europe. Slavery was greatly reduced around the world, following a successful slave revolt in Haiti, Britain and France stepped up the battle against the Barbary pirates and succeeded in stopping their enslavement of Europeans. The UKs Slavery Abolition Act charged the British Royal Navy with ending the slave trade. The first colonial empire in the century to abolish slavery was the British, americas 13th Amendment following their Civil War abolished slavery there in 1865, and in Brazil slavery was abolished in 1888. Similarly, serfdom was abolished in Russia, in the 19th century approximately 70 million people left Europe, with most migrating to the United States of America. The 19th century also saw the creation, development and codification of many sports, particularly in Britain. Also, ladywear was a sensitive topic during this time. 1801, Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab,1801, Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope. 1801, Cairo falls to the British,1801, Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia. 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time,1803, William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the first practical steamboat. 1803, The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out Frances territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U. S. s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing and conquering land from Mexico, Britain,1803, The Wahhabis of the First Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina
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Antoine-Jean Gros, Surrender of Madrid, 1808. Napoleon enters Spain's capital during the
Peninsular War, 1810
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Arab slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma river (in today's Tanzania and Mozambique), 19th century
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The
Industrial Revolution forever modified the economy worldwide.
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Map of the world from 1897. The
British Empire (marked in pink) was the superpower of the 19th century.
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20th century
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The 20th century was a century that began on January 1,1901 and ended on December 31,2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium and it is distinct from the century known as the 1900s, which began on January 1,1900 and ended on December 31,1999. It saw great advances in communication and medical technology that by the late 1980s allowed for near-instantaneous worldwide computer communication, the term short twentieth century was coined to represent the events from 1914 to 1991. It took all of history up to 1804 for the worlds population to reach 1 billion, world population reached 2 billion estimates in 1927, by late 1999. Globally approximately 45% of those who were married and able to have children used contraception, 40% of pregnancies were unplanned, the century had the first global-scale total wars between world powers across continents and oceans in World War I and World War II. The century saw a shift in the way that many people lived, with changes in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology. The 20th century may have seen more technological and scientific progress than all the other centuries combined since the dawn of civilization, terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage. It was a century that started with horses, simple automobiles, and freighters but ended with high-speed rail, cruise ships, global commercial air travel and the space shuttle. Horses, Western societys basic form of transportation for thousands of years, were replaced by automobiles and buses within a few decades. Humans explored space for the first time, taking their first footsteps on the Moon, mass media, telecommunications, and information technology made the worlds knowledge more widely available. Advancements in medical technology also improved the health of many people, rapid technological advancements, however, also allowed warfare to reach unprecedented levels of destruction. World War II alone killed over 60 million people, while nuclear weapons gave humankind the means to annihilate itself in a short time, however, these same wars resulted in the destruction of the Imperial system. For the first time in history, empires and their wars of expansion and colonization ceased to be a factor in international affairs, resulting in a far more globalized. The last time major powers clashed openly was in 1945, and since then, technological advancements during World War I changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as tanks, chemical weapons, and aircraft modified tactics and strategy. After more than four years of warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead. The regime of Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown during the conflict, Russia became the first communist state, at the beginning of the period, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation, having acted as the worlds policeman for the past century. Meanwhile, Japan had rapidly transformed itself into an advanced industrial power. Its military expansion into eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean culminated in an attack on the United States
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The
Earth as
seen from
Apollo 17. The second half of the 20th century saw humankind's first
space exploration.
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Ukraine, early days of the 1941 Nazi invasion. The
Soviet Union lost around 27 million people between 1941 and 1945, almost half of all
World War II deaths.
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Albert Einstein is often regarded as the father of
modern physics.
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Richard Nixon and
Leonid Brezhnev aboard the
USS Sequoia, June 19, 1973
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1820s
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The 1820s decade ran from January 1,1820, to December 31,1829. 1820, Anchor coinage is issued for use in some British colonies,1824 – The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War in West Sumatra. The Java War was fought in Java between 1825 and 1830 and it started as a rebellion led by Prince Diponegoro after the Dutch decided to build a road across a piece of his property that contained his parents tomb. The troops of Prince Diponegoro were very successful in the beginning, controlling the middle of Java, furthermore, the Javanese population was supportive of Prince Diponegoros cause, whereas the Dutch colonial authorities were initially very indecisive. As the Java war prolonged, Prince Diponegoro had difficulties in maintaining the numbers of his troops, Prince Diponegoro started a fierce guerrilla war and it was not until 1827 that the Dutch army gained the upper hand. The Dutch colonial army was able to fill its ranks with troops from Sulawesi, the rebellion finally ended in 1830, after Prince Diponegoro was tricked into entering Dutch custody near Magelang, believing he was there for negotiations for a possible cease-fire. It is estimated that 200,000 died over the course of the conflict,8,000 being Dutch, the campaign initiated a period of two decades in which Kedah resisted Siamese control. The Sultan took refuge on Penang Island, then under British control, by 1822 there was a rise in the population of the British territories caused by an influx of Malays displaced by the invasion. 1826 – The Burney Treaty allowed the Siamese view of their rights to prevail in Kelah,1826 – The British crown colony of the Straits Settlements is established in what is now Malaysia and Singapore. February 14,1820 – Minh Mang starts to rule in Vietnam,1825 – Minh Mang outlaws the teaching of Christianity in Vietnam. 1828 Siamese-Lao War, Siam invades and sacks Vientiane,1827 – Laos, King Anouvong of Vientiane declares war on Siam and successfully attacks Nakhon Ratchasima. November 12,1828 – Anouvong, ruler of the Kingdom of Vientiane, is deposed, during the war, the city of Vientiane is obliterated by Siamese forces. 1824-1826, The First Anglo-Burmese War ended in a British victory, and by the Treaty of Yandabo, Burma lost territory previously conquered in Assam, Manipur, and Arakan. The British also took possession of Tenasserim with the intention to use it as a chip in future negotiations with either Burma or Siam. 1824-1826 - Rattanakosin Kingdom, Rama II died in 1824 and was succeeded by his son Jessadabodindra. In 1825 the British sent another mission to Bangkok led by East India Company emissary Henry Burney and they had by now annexed southern Burma and were thus Siams neighbours to the west, and they were also extending their control over Malaya. The King was reluctant to give in to British demands, in 1826, therefore, Siam concluded its first commercial treaty with a western power, the Burney Treaty. Under the treaty, Siam agreed to establish a uniform system, to reduce taxes on foreign trade
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Russo-Turkish War
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October 20: Naval Battle of Navarino by
Ambroise Louis Garneray
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Anthony Finley's 1827 map of Africa
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John Melish map of the United States circa 1822
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1830s
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The 1830s decade ran from January 1,1830, to December 31,1839. July 30,1836 – The first English language newspaper is published in Hawaii,1838 – The Pitcairn Islands become a Crown colony of the United Kingdom, and women there are the first in the world to be granted and maintain, another one womens suffrage. China was ruled by the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty during the 1830s, the decade witnessed a rapid rise in the sale of opium in China, despite efforts by the Daoguang Emperor to end the trade. A turning point came in 1834, with the end of the monopoly of the British East India Company, by 1838, opium sales climbed to 40,000 chests. In 1839, newly appointed imperial commissioner Lin Zexu banned the sale of opium, Lin also closed the channel to Guangzhou, leading to the seizure and destruction of 20,000 chests of opium. The British retaliated, seizing Hong Kong on August 23 of that year and it would end three years later with the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. July 1837 – Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison, in the Morrison Incident, he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire. 1830 – The Java War ends, Prince Mongkut of Siam founds the Dhammayut Buddhist reform movement. The Padri War was fought from 1803 until 1837 in West Sumatra between the Padris and the Adats, the latter asked for the help of the Dutch, who intervened from 1821 and helped the Adats defeat the Padri faction. The conflict intensified in the 1830s, as the war centered on Bonjol. It finally fell in 1837 after being besieged for three years, and along with the exile of Padri leader Tuanku Imam Bonjol, the conflict died out,1839 – The Emperor Minh Mạng renames Việt Nam to Đại Nam. The various Maori chieftains of Northland region of North Island proclaim their independence as the United Tribes of New Zealand, the British Crown immediately recognizes their claim. August 15,1834 – The South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there, June 8,1835 – The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner. October 28,1835 – United Tribes of New Zealand founded at Waitangi with the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand, November 19,1835 – A force of 500 Māori people invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands. July 27,1836 – Adelaide, South Australia, is founded, December 26,1836 – The colony of South Australia is officially proclaimed. December 28,1836 – Colony of South Australia founded by Captain John Hindmarsh June 10,1838 –28 Indigenous Australians are killed in the Myall Creek Massacre. 1838 – Five nuns from the Religious Sisters of Charity in Ireland become the first women of religion to set foot on Australian soil. December 1838 – First Anglo-Afghan War, British and Presidency armies set out from Punjab in support of Shah Shujah Durranis claim to the throne of Afghanistan
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Lin Zexu supervising the destruction of opium in 1839
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June 20:
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901).
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French Revolution of 1830
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Robert's Quartet
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1840s
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The 1840s was a really active and extremely turbulent decade that ran from January 1,1840, to December 31,1849. Throughout the decade, many countries worldwide saw many revolts as well as uprisings, asides from uprisings, the United States began to see a shifting population that migrated to the West Coast, as the California Gold Rush ensued in the latter half of the decade. In 1842, Tahiti and Tahuata were declared a French protectorate, the capital of Papeetē was founded in 1843. In 1845, George Tupou I united Tonga into a kingdom, on August 29,1842, the first of two Opium Wars ended between China and Britain with the Treaty of Nanking. One of the consequences was the cession of modern-day Hong Kong Island to the British, Hong Kong would eventually be returned to China in 1997. Other events, July 3,1844 – The United States signs the Treaty of Wanghia with the Chinese Government, the 1840s comprised the end of the Tenpō era, the entirety of the Kōka era, and the beginning of the Kaei era. The decade saw the end of the reign of Emperor Ninko in 1846, emperors Minh Mạng, Thiệu Trị and Tự Đức ruled Vietnam during the 1840s under the Nguyễn dynasty. 1848 – British, Dutch, and German governments lay claim to New Guinea, First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6,1840, at Waitangi, Northland New Zealand. The treaty between the British Crown and Māori made New Zealand colony and is considered the point of modern New Zealand. July 20,1845 – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia, may 25,1846 – The Royal Geographical Society awards Paweł Edmund Strzelecki a Gold Medal for exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia. The British attempted to impose a puppet regime on Afghanistan under Shuja Shah, by 1842, mobs were attacking the British on the streets of Kabul and the British garrison was forced to abandon the city due to constant civilian attacks. During the retreat from Kabul, the British army of approximately 4,500 troops and 12,000 camp followers was subjected to a series of attacks by Afghan warriors. All of the British soldiers were killed except for one and he, after the Battle of Kabul, Britain placed Dost Mohammad Khan back into power and withdrew from Afghanistan. March 24,1843 – Battle of Hyderabad, The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Emirs, the Sikh Empire was founded in 1799, ruled by Ranjit Singh. When Singh died in 1839, the Sikh Empire began to fall into disorder, there was a succession of short-lived rulers at the central Durbar, and increasing tension between the Khalsa and the Durbar. In May 1841, the Dogra dynasty invaded western Tibet, marking the beginning of the Sino-Sikh war and this war ended in a stalemate in September 1842, with the Treaty of Chushul. The British East India Company began to build up its strength on the borders of the Punjab. Eventually, the increasing tension goaded the Khalsa to invade British territory, under weak, the hard-fought First Anglo-Sikh War ended in defeat for the Khalsa
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Map of India in 1848
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July 26:
Matale Rebellion begins in
Sri Lanka.
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August 15:
Tivoli Gardens.
1840s
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April 10: "Monster Rally" of
Chartists held on
Kennington Common in London; the first photograph of a crowd depicts it.
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1850s
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The 1850s was a decade that ran from January 1,1850, to December 31,1859. At the mean time, The United States saw its peak on mass migration to the American West, that particularly made the nation experience an economic boom, as well as a rapidly increasing population. Crimean War fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. On 8 October 1856, the Second Opium War between several powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. Second War of Italian Independence, also known as Franco-Austrian War, moldavia and Wallachia are unified and form Romania. Gideon T. Stewart attempts to create a Prohibition Party, dissolution of the Mughal Empire by the British. First commercially successful sewing machine made by Isaac Singer Ukrainian settlers bring Carniolan honeybees to the Primorsky Krai The word girlfriend first appears in writing in 1855, the word boyfriend first appears in writing in 1856. Nikola Tesla American texts from the 1850s American speeches from the 1850s
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Crimean war
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1860s
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The 1860s were an extremely different decade with numerous cultural, social, and political upheavals in Europe and America. Revolutions were prevalent in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, the abolition of slavery in America led to the breakdown of the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was already suffering from the abolition of slavery in most of Europe in the late 1820s and ’30s. After the Civil War, turmoil continued in Reconstruction, with the rise of white supremacist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, replacement of President of Mexico Benito Juárez at first with Juan Nepomuceno Almonte and then by Emperor Maximilian of Mexico with the establishment of the Second Mexican Empire. Juárez eventually manages to recover his position, on 18 October 1860, the first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War. The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, the Paraguayan War starts in South America, with the invasion of Paraguay by the Triple Alliance. It will kill almost 60% of the country’s population, the main phase of the New Zealand Wars between British colonials and the Māori population begins with the First Taranaki War in 1860. The most significant campaign is the Invasion of Waikato in 1863, the Kingdom of Prussia under Bismarck invaded Denmark in 1864, which ended in the division of Schleswig, the location of a pro-German revolt, between Prussia and the Austrian Empire. Though Prussia and Austria had both fought side by side in war, Prussia later attacked Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866. The technological and logistical superiority of Prussias armed forces obliterated Austria and its allies, by the end of these conflicts, Prussia was seen as the most powerful state in Germany, and had total hegemony over the other German states. The NGF was formed after the Austro-Prussian war, uniting the states of north Germany, the Bhutan War between the British Empire and Bhutan lasted from 1864 to 1865. It ended in a British victory and the loss of some Bhutanese territory to British India, beginning of the Reconstruction era under President Andrew Johnson. 1863–64 January Uprising in the Russian Empire, on 19 July 1864 the fall of Nanjing formally ended the 14-year Taiping Rebellion. Italian Unification under King Victor Emmanuel II, Wars for expansion and national unity continue until the incorporation of the Papal States. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last of the Tokugawa shoguns loses control to the Meiji Emperor, the samurai class fails to survive while the daimyōs turn to politics. The Dominion of Canada is created by the British North America Act on July 1,1867, President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, April 14,1865. King of Madagascar Radama II is captured by soldiers and strangled to death, manuel Isidoro Belzu, President of Bolivia is assassinated. Father of Canadian Confederation, Thomas DArcy McGee is assassinated by Patrick J. Whelan, sakamoto Ryōma, a prominent figure in the Bakumatsu era in Japan and part of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, is assassinated along with Nakaoka Shintarō at a Kyoto inn in 1867. The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is completed in 1869, the Suez Canal in Egypt is opened in 1869
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American Civil War
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1839
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As of the start of 1839, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January – The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson, january 2 – First photograph of the Moon taken by photographer Louis Daguerre. January 6 – Night of the Big Wind, Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years, january 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype photography process. January 19 – The British East India Company captures Aden, january 20 – Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, leading to the restoration of an independent Peru. January 29 – English naturalist Charles Darwin marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood, february 11 – The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River. February 24 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel, march 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia. March 7 – Baltimore City College, the public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore. March 9 – The Anti-Corn Law League is founded in Manchester, march 23 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of OK. March 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held on the River Thames in England, april 9 – The worlds first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation alongside the Great Western Railway line in England, from London Paddington station to West Drayton. April 19 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom with its independence, half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands, giving rise to a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg. May 7 – The Bedchamber Crisis begins in the United Kingdom after the Prime Minister, may 12 – Socialist activist Louis Auguste Blanqui and the Société des Saisons begin an uprising against the government of France. The insurrection is suppressed, but not before 50 people are killed and 190 wounded, may 23 – Turkish troops cross the Euphrates River and invade Syria, but are defeated in battle in June. June 3 – Destruction of opium at Humen begins, casus belli for Britain to open the 3-year First Opium War against Qing dynasty China, June 22 – Louis Daguerre receives a patent for his camera. July 1 Slaves aboard the Amistad rebel and capture the ship, abdülmecid I succeeds Mahmud II as Ottoman Emperor. July 23 – First Anglo-Afghan War – Battle of Ghazni, British forces capture the city of Ghazni. August 19 – The French government gives Louis Daguerre a pension, august 23 – British forces seize Hong Kong as a base, as it prepares to wage the First Opium War. September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned, october 3 – In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a railway between Naples and Portici is inaugurated by King Ferdinand II of Bourbon as the first railway in the Italian Peninsula. October 15 – Abdelkader El Djezairi declares a jihad against the French, november 4 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain
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Paul Cézanne
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John Davison Rockefeller
1839
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Alfred Sisley
1839
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Friedrich Mohs
11.
1840
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As of the start of 1840, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 3 – One of the papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia. January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom, january 13 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks in icy waters, four miles off the coast of Long Island,139 die, only four survive. January 21 – Jules Dumont dUrville discovers Adélie Land in Antarctica, january 22 – British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding Wellington. February – The Rhodes blood libel is made against the Jews of Rhodes, february 5 – The murder of a Capuchin friar and his Greek servant leads to the Damascus affair, a highly publicized case of blood libel against the Jews of Damascus. February 6 – The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed, february 10 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. February 11 – Gaetano Donizettis opera La fille du régiment premieres in Paris, march 1 William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, suffers a stroke. Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France, march 9 – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington, North Carolina to Weldon, North Carolina. At 161.5 miles, it is the worlds longest railroad, april – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh to near Weldon, North Carolina. April 2 – The Washingtonian movement for teetotalism is founded by a group of alcoholics in Baltimore, april 15 – Kings College Hospital opens in London. May 1 – Britain issues the Penny Black, the worlds first postage stamp, may 7 – The Great Natchez Tornado, A massive tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi during the early afternoon. Before it is over,317 people are killed and 109 injured and it is the second deadliest tornado in U. S. history. May 21 – New Zealand is declared a British colony, june 7 – On the death of Frederick William III of Prussia he is succeeded on the throne of the Kingdom of Prussia by his eldest son Frederick William IV. June 12–23 – The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society at Exeter Hall in London, arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for womens suffrage in the United States. July 4 – The Cunard Lines 700-ton wooden paddlewheel steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service. July 15 – The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, july 21 – August Borsigs steam locomotive, the first built in Germany, competes against a Stephenson-built locomotive on the Berlin–Jüterbog railroad, the Borsig locomotive wins by 10 minutes. July 23 Pedro II is declared of age prematurely and begins to reassert control in Brazil. The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union, August 10 – Fortsas hoax, A number of book collectors gather in Binche, Belgium, to attend a non-existent book auction of the late Count of Fortsas
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January 13: Steamship Lexington sinks.
1840
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July 4:
RMS Britannia
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The frigate Belle-Poule brings back the remains of Napoléon to France.
1840
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Ernst Abbe
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As of the start of 1841, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom and Qishan of the Qing dynasty agree to the Convention of Chuenpi, january 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the records a population of about 7,500. January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross, january 28 – Ross discovers the Victoria Barrier, later known as the Ross Ice Shelf. On the same voyage, he discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, january 30 – A fire ruins and destroys two-thirds of the villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. February 4 – First known reference to Groundhog Day in North America, february 10 – Act of Union proclaimed in Canada. February 11 – The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada, february 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11. February 20 – The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to the United States, february – El Salvador proclaims itself an independent republic, bringing an end to the Federal Republic of Central America. March 4 – William Henry Harrison is sworn in as President of the United States, March 9 – United States v. The Amistad, The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had taken into slavery illegally. March 12 – SS President under the command of the legendary captain Richard Roberts founders in rough seas with all passengers and he is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler, who becomes President of the United States. April 6 – President John Tyler is sworn in, may – Start of the Sino-Sikh War. May 3 – New Zealand becomes a British colony, may 11 – Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound. May 22 –1841 rebellion in Guria, The Georgian province of Guria revolts against the Russian Empire, june 6 United Kingdom Census held, the first to record names and approximate ages of every household member and to be administered nationally. Marian Hughes becomes the first woman to take vows in communion with the Anglican Province of Canterbury since the Reformation. June 21 – Fordham University is founded in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus and its name at its founding is St. Johns College. June 28 – Ballet Giselle first presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de lAcadémie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, july – Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa. July 5 – Thomas Cook arranges his first railway excursion, in England, july 17 – First edition of the humorous magazine Punch published in London
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July 18: Coronation of Emperor
Pedro II of Brazil
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Antonín Dvořák
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As of the start of 1843, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January Serial publication of Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit begins in London, in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States. Publication of Edgar Allan Poes Gothic short story The Tell-Tale Heart in a Philadelphia magazine, the Quaker magazine The Friend is first published in London. January 3 – Publication in China of Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms compiled by Wei Yuan and others, january 6 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island. January 20 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, february 3 – Uruguayan Civil War, Argentina supports Oribe of Uruguay and begins a siege of Montevideo. February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show, february 11 – Giuseppe Verdis opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata premieres at La Scala in Milan. February 14 – The event that inspired the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite. is held in England, february 25 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair. March 8 – The Danish government re-establishes the Althing in Iceland as an advisory body, March 11–March 14 – Eta Carinae flares to become the second brightest star. March 13 – Catawba County, North Carolina, is created, March 15 – Victoria, British Columbia, is founded by the Hudsons Bay Company as a trading post and fort. March 16 – The city of Petrópolis is founded by the government of Brazil, March 21 – The world does not end, contrary to the first prediction by American preacher William Miller. March 24 – Battle of Hyderabad, The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Emirs, March 25 – Marc Isambard Brunels Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under the River Thames and the worlds first bored underwater tunnel, is opened in London. April – Eta Carinae is temporarily the second-brightest star in the night sky, april 7 – The Indian Slavery Act,1843 removes legal support for slavery within the territories of the East India Company May 4 – Natal is proclaimed a British colony. May 18 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland, may 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail. May 23 – Chile takes possession of the Strait of Magellan, june 6 – In Barbados, Samuel Jackman Prescod is the first non-white person elected to the House of Assembly. July 1 – Graduation from a class of 39 at the United States Military Academy, West Point, of Ulysses S. Grant and John J. Peck. July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunels SS Great Britain is launched from Bristol, it will be the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. July 25 – Père Antoine Désiré Mégret, a Capuchin missionary, purchases for $900 the land that will become Abbeville, Louisiana, august 1 – Brazil becomes the second country, after Great Britain, to issue nationally valid postage stamps with the release of its Bulls Eye series. August 15 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, september 2 –The Economist newspaper is first published in London
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July 19:
SS Great Britain launch
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August 15:
Tivoli Gardens
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Bertha von Suttner
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Camillo Golgi
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1844
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As of the start of 1844, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, february 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. February 28 – A gun on the USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing 2 United States Cabinet members, march 8 – King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden–Norway upon the death of his father Charles XVI/III John. March 12 – The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered, march 21 – The Baháí calendar begins. March 23 – The Edict of Toleration is passed, allowing Jews to settle in the Holy Land, April – The Fleet Prison for debtors in London is closed, marking a significant milestone in the countrys human rights record. May 1 – Hong Kong Police Force, the worlds second, may 23 – Persian Prophet The Báb privately announces his revelation to Mullá Husayn, just after sunset, founding the Bábí faith in Shiraz, Persia. Abdul-Bahá Himself was later proclaimed by Baháulláh to be His own successor, thus being the third central figure of the Baháí Faith. May 24 – The first electrical telegram is sent by Samuel Morse from the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C. to the B&O Railroad outer depot in Baltimore, june–July – The Great Flood of 1844 hits the Missouri River and Mississippi River. June 6 – George Williams founds the Young Mens Christian Association in London, june 15 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. June 22 Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity was founded, ΔΚΕ is home to many well known VIPs, such as U. S. Presidents George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt. June 27 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, John Taylor, future president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is severely injured but survives. July 3 The United States signs the Treaty of Wanghia with the Chinese Government, the last definitely recorded pair of great auks are killed on the Icelandic island of Eldey. August 8 – During a meeting held in Nauvoo, Illinois, august 14 – Abdelkader El Djezairi is defeated at Isly in Morocco, sultan Abd al-Rahman of Morocco soon repudiates his ally. August 16 – Narciso Claveria, the Governor-General of the Philippines made a decree announcing that Monday, December 30,1844 would be followed by Wednesday. Tuesday, December 31,1844 was removed from the Philippine calendar because from 1521 to 1844, august 28 – Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris, France. September 25–September 27 – The first ever cricket match is played in New York City. October 22 – This second date, predicted by the Millerites for the Second Coming of Jesus, october 23 – The Báb publicly proclaimed to be the promised one of Islam. He is also considered to be simultaneously the return of Elijah, John the Baptist, and he announces to the world the coming of He whom God shall make manifest
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USS Princeton deaths.
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June 15:
Charles Goodyear.
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great auk
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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As of the start of 1845, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a letter from the younger poet Robert Browning on May 20 they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her Sonnets from the Portuguese, january 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. January 29 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time, february 1 – Anson Jones, President of the Republic of Texas, signs the charter officially creating Baylor University. Baylor is the oldest university in the State of Texas operating under its original name, february 7 – In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase, which takes months to repair. February 28 – The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas, march 1 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. March 3 Florida is admitted as the 27th U. S. state, the United States Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto for the first time. March 4 – James K. Polk is sworn in as President of the United States, march 11 – New Zealand Wars open with the Flagstaff War, Chiefs Kawiti and Hone Heke lead 700 Māoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororāreka. March 13 – The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, march 17 – Stephen Perry patents the rubber band in the United Kingdom. March 30 – Due to different transition dates to the Gregorian calendar, april 10 – A great fire destroys much of the American city of Pittsburgh. April 20 – Ramón Castilla becomes president of Peru, may – Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave written by himself is published by the Boston Anti-Slavery Society. May 2 – A suspension bridge collapses in Great Yarmouth, England, leaving around 80 dead, may 19 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men, comprising Sir John Franklins expedition to find the Northwest Passage, sail from Greenhithe on the Thames. They will last be seen in August entering Baffin Bay, may 30 – Fatel Razack is the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago, landing in the Gulf of Paria with 227 immigrants. July 20 – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia, july 26–August 10 – Isambard Kingdom Brunels iron steamship Great Britain makes the transatlantic crossing from Liverpool to New York, the first screw propelled vessel to make the passage. July 28 – HMS Terror and HMS Erebus of the Franklin Expedition go missing in the Davis Strait west of Greenland while searching for the Northwest Passage. August 9 – The Aberdeen Act is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom empowering the British Royal Navy to search Brazilian ships as part of the abolition of the trade from Africa. August 10 – The French Consul in Zanzibar receives the letter sent by Eugène Maizan during his expedition into tropical Africa. August 28 – The journal Scientific American begins publication, september 9 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning of the Great Famine
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Georg Cantor
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1842 in architecture
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The year 1842 in architecture involved some significant events. March 28 - The Teatr Skarbkowski in Lviv, designed by Jan Salzmann and Ludwig Pichl, october 18 - The Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, designed by Leo von Klenze, is inaugurated. Treasury Building, designed by Robert Mills, central and east wings completed, Construction of Berry Hill, near Halifax, iglesia de la Matriz, Valparaíso, Chile, completed. Kawaiahaʻo Church, Honolulu, Hawaii, designed by Rev. Hiram Bingham, st Marys Church, Wreay, Cumberland, England, designed by Sara Losh, consecrated. Circular church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, England, restored by Anthony Salvin, andrew Jackson Downing - Cottage Residences Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Philippe-Auguste Titeux
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Teatr Skarbkowski, Lviv
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1842 in art
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Events from the year 1842 in art. David Roberts begins publication of Sketches in the Holy Land, richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke. Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of three centuries. William Fox Talbot receives the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, george R. Lewis records the famous carvings at Kilpeck church, Herefordshire. Dordrechts Museum established in the Netherlands
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Thomas Cole,
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
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Thomas Cole,
The Voyage of Life: Youth
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Thomas Cole,
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
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Thomas Cole,
The Voyage of Life: Old Age
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1842 in Norway
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Porsgrunn was granted full city status. Limited city status was granted in 1807, the Norwegian Missionary Society was founded in Stavanger. The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election, ivar Aasen commenced his research on rural dialects all across Norway 16 March – Theodor Nilsen Stousland, politician. Dvergsdal, politician 16 March - Maurits Hansen, writer Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, poet, dramatist and judge
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1842 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1842 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XIV John 18 June - Compulsory Primary education for both sexes. - The Garden Society of Gothenburg is opened, - The theater monopoly of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm is abolished. 28 May - Inauguration of the Mindre teatern, the first theater to be active within the city borders of Stockholm since the introduction of the monopoly of the Royal Dramatic Theatre 44 years earlier, - The new Starrkärr Church is inaugurated. - Rosen på Tistelön by Emilie Flygare-Carlén
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Slussen Järnvågen Julin
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1842 in the United States
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Events from the year 1842 in the United States. President, John Tyler Vice President, vacant Chief Justice, Roger B, taney Speaker of the House of Representatives, John White Congress, 27th February 1 – Willamette University is established in Salem, Oregon. March – Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes, march 5 – Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio, and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution, march 9 – First documented discovery of gold in California, by Francisco Lopez at Placerita Canyon in Rancho San Francisco, sparking a small-scale gold rush, mainly of Mexicans from Sonora. May 19 – Dorr Rebellion, Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, august 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida. August 9 – The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains, september – The Wesleyan University is established in Ohio. November 26 – The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, december 20 – The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established. The Sons of Temperance is founded in New York City, second Seminole War January 11 – William James, psychologist and philosopher February 3 – Sidney Lanier, musician, poet and writer February 28 – Stephen Wallace Dorsey, U. S. Representative from New Jersey Media related to 1842 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons
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Calendar era
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A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar. For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era, the instant, date, or year from which time is marked is called the epoch of the era. There are many different calendar eras such as Saka Era, in antiquity, regnal years were counted from the accession of a monarch. This makes the Chronology of the ancient Near East very difficult to reconstruct, based on disparate and scattered king lists, such as the Sumerian King List and the Babylonian Canon of Kings. In East Asia, reckoning by era names chosen by ruling monarchs ceased in the 20th century except for Japan, for over a thousand years, ancient Assyria used a system of eponyms to identify each year. Assyrian scribes compiled limmu lists, including a sequence of almost 250 eponyms from the early 1st millennium BC. This is an invaluable aid, because a solar eclipse was recorded as having taken place in the limmu of Bur-Sagale. Astronomers have identified this eclipse as one took place on 15 June,763 BC. Among the ancient Greek historians and scholars, a method of indicating the passage of years was based on the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games provided the various independent city-states with a recognizable system of dates. Olympiad dating was not used in everyday life and this system was in use from the 3rd century BC. The modern Olympic Games do not continue the four periods from ancient Greece, the 669th Olympiad would have begun in the summer of 1897. Another common system was the indiction cycle, documents and events began to be dated by the year of the cycle in the 4th century, and this system was used long after the tax ceased to be collected. It was used in Gaul, in Egypt, and in most parts of Greece until the Islamic conquest, thus 2001 was the ninth indiction. The beginning of the year varied, the Seleucid era was used in much of the Middle East from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD, and continued until the 10th century AD among Oriental Christians. The era is computed from the epoch 312 BC, in August of that year Seleucus I Nicator captured Babylon, thus depending on whether the calendar year is taken as starting on 1 Tishri or on 1 Nisan the Seleucid era begins either in 311 BC or in 312 BC. An early and common practice was Roman consular dating and this involved naming both consules ordinarii who had taken up this office on January 2 of the relevant civil year. The use of consular dating ended in AD541 when the emperor Justinian I discontinued appointing consuls, the last consul nominated was Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius
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Gregorian calendar
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The Gregorian calendar is internationally the most widely used civil calendar. It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582, the calendar was a refinement to the Julian calendar involving a 0. 002% correction in the length of the year. The motivation for the reform was to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes and solstices—particularly the northern vernal equinox, transition to the Gregorian calendar would restore the holiday to the time of the year in which it was celebrated when introduced by the early Church. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe, the last European country to adopt the reform was Greece, in 1923. Many countries that have used the Islamic and other religious calendars have come to adopt this calendar for civil purposes. The reform was a modification of a made by Aloysius Lilius. His proposal included reducing the number of years in four centuries from 100 to 97. Lilius also produced an original and practical scheme for adjusting the epacts of the moon when calculating the date of Easter. For example, the years 1700,1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are. The canonical Easter tables were devised at the end of the third century, when the vernal equinox fell either on 20 March or 21 March depending on the years position in the leap year cycle. As the rule was that the full moon preceding Easter was not to precede the equinox, the date was fixed at 21 March for computational purposes, the Gregorian calendar reproduced these conditions by removing ten days. To unambiguously specify a date, dual dating or Old Style, dual dating gives two consecutive years for a given date, because of differences in the starting date of the year, and/or to give both the Julian and the Gregorian dates. The Gregorian calendar continued to use the calendar era, which counts years from the traditional date of the nativity. This year-numbering system, also known as Dionysian era or Common Era, is the predominant international standard today, the Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar. A regular Gregorian year consists of 365 days, but as in the Julian calendar, in a leap year, in the Julian calendar a leap year occurs every 4 years, but the Gregorian calendar omits 3 leap days every 400 years. In the Julian calendar, this day was inserted by doubling 24 February. In the modern period, it has become customary to number the days from the beginning of the month, some churches, notably the Roman Catholic Church, delay February festivals after the 23rd by one day in leap years. Gregorian years are identified by consecutive year numbers, the cycles repeat completely every 146,097 days, which equals 400 years
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First page of the papal bull
Inter gravissimas
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Detail of the pope's tomb by
Camillo Rusconi (completed 1723); Antonio Lilio is genuflecting before the pope, presenting his printed calendar.
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Ab urbe condita
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Ab urbe condita is a Latin phrase meaning from the founding of the City, traditionally dated to 753 BC. AUC is a system used by some ancient Roman historians to identify particular Roman years. Renaissance editors sometimes added AUC to Roman manuscripts they published, giving the impression that the Romans usually numbered their years using the AUC system. The dominant method of identifying Roman years in Roman times was to name the two consuls who held office that year, the regnal year of the emperor was also used to identify years, especially in the Byzantine Empire after 537 when Justinian required its use. The traditional date for the founding of Rome of 21 April 753 BC, was initiated by 1st century BC scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, the correctness of Varros calculation has not been confirmed but it is still used worldwide. From Emperor Claudius onwards, Varros calculation superseded other contemporary calculations, celebrating the anniversary of the city became part of imperial propaganda. Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the citys anniversary, hadrian and Antoninus Pius held similar celebrations, in 121 AD and 147/148 AD respectively. During 248 AD, Philip the Arab celebrated Romes first millennium, coins from his reign commemorate the celebrations. The Anno Domini year numbering was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome during 525, in his Easter table the year 532 AD was equated with the regnal year 248 of Emperor Diocletian. It was later calculated that the year 1 AD corresponds to the Roman year 754 AUC, based on Varros epoch
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Antoninianus of
Pacatianus,
usurper of Roman emperor Philip in 248. It bears the legend ROMAE AETER[NAE] AN[NO] MIL[LESIMO] ET PRIMO, "To eternal Rome, in its one thousand and first year".
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Balinese saka calendar
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The Balinese saka calendar is one of two calendars used on the Indonesian island of Bali. Unlike the 210-day pawukon calendar, it is based on the phases of the moon, based on a lunar calendar, the saka year comprises twelve months, or sasih, of 30 days each. The months are adjusted by allocating two lunar days to one day every 9 weeks. This day is called ngunalatri, Sanskrit for minus one night, the length of these months is calculated according to the normal 63-day cycle. Both sets of days are numbered 1 to 15, the first day of the year is usually the day after the first new moon in March. Note, however, that Nyepi falls on the first day of Kadasa, the calendar is 78 years behind the Gregorian calendar, and is calculated from the beginning of the Saka Era in India. It is used alongside the 210-day Balinese pawukon calendar, and Balinese festivals can be calculated according to either year, the Indian saka calendar was used for royal decrees as early as the ninth century CE. The same calendar was used in Java until Sultan Agung replaced it with the Javanese calendar in 1633, the Balinese Hindu festival of Nyepi, the day of silence, marks the start of the Saka year. Tilem Kepitu, the last day of the 7th month, is known as Siva Ratri, devotees stay up all night and meditate. There are another 24 ceremonial days in the Saka year, usually celebrated at Purnama, ISBN9813018496 Hobart, Angela, Ramseyer, Urs & Leeman, Albert The Peoples of Bali, Blackwell Publishers. ISBN063117687 X Ricklefs, M. C, A History of Modern Indonesia, MacMillan, ISBN 978-0-333-24380-0
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Information about the Saka calendar on a Balinese wall calendar
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Bengali calendar
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The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar is a solar calendar used in the region of Bengal. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh, the New Year in the Bengali calendar is known as Pôhela Bôishakh. The Bengali Era or Anno Bengal, the Bengali year is 594 less than the AD or CE year in the Gregorian calendar if it is before Pôhela Bôishakh, the revised version of the Bengali calendar was officially adopted in Bangladesh in 1987. However, it is not followed in India where the traditional version continues to be followed due to occurrence of Hindu festivals based on a particular sidereal solar day. The Bengali calendar is a solar calendar, the calendar was developed by Alauddin Husain Shah, a Hussain Shahi sultan of Bengal by combining the lunar Islamic calendar with the solar calendar, prevalent in Bengal. All theories agree that the Mughal Emperor, Akbar was instrumental in promulgating the Bengali calendar, Akbar modified, developed and re introduced the Bengali Calendar in order to make tax collection easier in Bengal. The calendar was called as Tarikh-e-Elahi. Sources credit the idea to Alauddin Husain Shah, akbars royal astronomer Fathullah Shirazi developed the Bengali calendar, by synthesizing the Lunar Islamic and Solar calendars. The calendar started with the Islamic calendar value, but the Sanskrit month names were used from the earlier version, the distinctive characteristic of the Bengali year was that rather than being a lunar calendar, it was based on a union of the solar and lunar year. This was essentially a great promotion as the solar and lunar years were formulated in very diverse systems, primarily this calendar was named as Fasli Sôn and then Bônggabdô. The Bengali Year was launched on 1584 AD or 992 AH and this was the day that Akbar defeated Hemu in the clash of Panipat to ascend the throne. The month of Muharram in the year 963 AH was equal to the month of Boishakh in the Bengali calendar, in the Tarikh-e-Elahi version of the calendar, each day of the month had a separate name, and the months had different names from what they have now. The Bengali calendar consists of 6 seasons, known as Rreetu ঋতু or Kal কাল, hence after some centuries the months will shift far away from the actual seasons. But the new revised version of the Bengali calendar used in Bangladesh will continue to maintain the seasons on time as mentioned above. The Bengali Calendar incorporates the seven-day week as used by other calendars. The names of the days of the week in the Bengali Calendar are based on the Navagraha, the day begins and ends at sunrise in the Bengali calendar, unlike in the Gregorian calendar, where the day starts at midnight. Pôhela Bôishakh in West Bengal and other states of India with Bengali diaspora, is celebrated on 14/15 April of the Gregorian calendar, however, according to the revised version of the calendar, now followed in Bangladesh, Pôhela Bôishakh always falls on 14 April. It is not clear, from what ground they start counting of 1st Bengali calendar year from the 593AD, the length of a year is counted as 365 days, as in the Gregorian calendar
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Differences shown between the two different versions of the Bengali calendar (for
Asharh month of the year 1419). On the top is the "Traditional unrevised version" followed in
West Bengal and below it is the "New revised version" followed in
Bangladesh.
