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312 relations: A. E. Waite, Agustina de Aragón, Albert Ballin, Alcide d'Orbigny, Aleksei Evert, Alexander of Battenberg, Alfonso XII, Alfred Binet, Alfred de Musset, Allan Kardec, Almanzo Wilder, American Civil War, Anastasios Papoulas, Anglo-Persian War, Annie Maria Barnes, Antoine de Mitry, Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Association football, Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Émile Cohl, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ballington Booth, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Banco Santander, Battle of Canton (1857), Battle of Fatshan Creek, British Empire, British Raj, Broadway (Manhattan), Bsharri, Bucharest, Cantabria, Cape Palmas, Carl Czerny, Carl Meinhof, Catholic Church, Central California, Chancellor of Germany, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Charles Scott Sherrington, Chief Justice of the United States, Christian Daniel Rauch, Christian Michelsen, Clara Zetkin, Constantin Coandă, Crimean War, ... Expand index (262 more) »
A. E. Waite
Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck).
Agustina de Aragón
Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa i Domènech (March 4, 1786 – May 29, 1857), better known as Agustina of Aragón, was a Spanish woman who defended Spain during the Peninsular War, first as a civilian and later as a professional officer in the Spanish Army.
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Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate.
Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
Aleksei Evert
Aleksei Ermolaevich Evert (Алексей Ермолаевич Эверт; Alexei Ewert; also written Everth or Ewarts; 4 March 185712 November 1918 or 10 May 1926) was an Imperial Russian general of German descent.
Alexander of Battenberg
Alexander Joseph (Александър I Батенберг; 5 April 185717 November 1893), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria from 1878 until his abdication in 1886.
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Alfonso XII
Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón; 28 November 185725 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador (Spanish: the Peacemaker), was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885.
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French educator, translator, and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869).
Almanzo Wilder
Almanzo James Wilder (February 13, 1857? – October 23, 1949) was the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the father of Rose Wilder Lane, both noted authors.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Anastasios Papoulas
Anastasios Papoulas (Αναστάσιος Παπούλας; 1/13 January 1857 – 24 April 1935) was a Greek general, most notable as the Greek commander-in-chief during most of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22.
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Anglo-Persian War
The Anglo-Persian War or the Anglo-Iranian War (translit) lasted between 1 November 1856 and 4 April 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom and Iran, which was ruled by the Qajar dynasty.
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Annie Maria Barnes
Annie Maria Barnes (pen name, Cousin Annie; May 28, 1857 – October 21 1933 or December 31 1943) was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and author from South Carolina.
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Antoine de Mitry
Antoine de Mitry (Leménil-Mitry, 20 September 1857 – 18 August 1924) was a French army general during World War I,.
Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857
The Art Treasures of Great Britain was an exhibition of fine art held in Manchester, England, from 5 May to 17 October 1857.
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Arthur Arz von Straußenburg
Generaloberst Arthur Freiherr Arz von Straußenburg (Báró Artúr Arz de Straussenburg; 16 June 1857 – 1 July 1935) was an Austro-Hungarian colonel general and last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (France:, ; 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist.
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
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Émile Cohl
Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon".
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar), was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died in 1837.
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Ballington Booth
Ballington Booth (July 28, 1857 – October 5, 1940) was a British-born American Christian minister who co-founded Volunteers of America, a Christian charitable organization, and became its first General (1896-1940).
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain.
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Banco Santander
Banco Santander S.A. trading as Santander Group, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Santander in Spain.
Battle of Canton (1857)
The Battle of Canton was fought by British and French forces against Qing China on 28–31 December 1857 during the Second Opium War.
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Battle of Fatshan Creek
The Battle of Fatshan Creek (佛山水道之戰) was a naval engagement fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the Cantonese fleet of Qing China on 1 June 1857.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Broadway (Manhattan)
Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York.
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Bsharri
Bsharri (بشرّي Bšarrī; also romanized Becharre, Bcharre, Bsharre, Bcharre Al Arz) is a town at altitudes between and.
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Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
Cantabria
Cantabria (also) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city.
Cape Palmas
Cape Palmas is a headland on the extreme southeast end of the coast of Liberia, Africa, at the extreme southwest corner of the northern half of the continent.
Carl Czerny
Carl Czerny (21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Carl Meinhof
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (23 July 1857 – 11 February 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Central California
Central California is generally thought of as the middle third of the U.S. state of California, north of Southern California (which includes Los Angeles and San Diego) and south of Northern California (which includes San Francisco and San Jose).
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Chancellor of Germany
The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime.
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon.
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Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist.
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Chief Justice of the United States
The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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Christian Daniel Rauch
Christian Daniel Rauch (2 January 1777 – 3 December 1857) was a German sculptor.
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Christian Michelsen
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen (15 March 1857– 29 June 1925), better known as Christian Michelsen, was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman.
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Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights.
Constantin Coandă
Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932) was a Romanian soldier and politician who served as prime minister of Romania in 1918.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.
David Thompson (explorer)
David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was an Anglo-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer".
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December
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Defensive wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.
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Dmitry Shcherbachev
Dmitry Grigoryevich Shcherbachev (Дми́трий Григо́рьевич Щербачёв; 18 January 1932) was a general in the Russian Army during World War I and one of the leaders of the White Movement during the Russian Civil War.
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Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio (Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was an Italian student of John Bosco who became a Catholic saint.
Dorothea Lieven
Princess Katharina Alexandra Dorothea von Lieven (Дарья Христофоровна Ливен, tr.), née Freiin von Benckendorff, 17 December 1785 – 27 January 1857), was a Baltic German noblewoman and the wife of Prince Christoph Heinrich von Lieven, who served as the Russian ambassador to London between 1812 and 1834.
Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore
Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore (Rhodes; after first marriage, Lummis; after second marriage, Moore; November 9, 1857March 4, 1942) was an American physician, writer, newspaper editor, and activist.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
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Dunbar (ship)
The Dunbar was a full-rigged ship designed and built from 1852 to 1853 by James Laing & Sons of Deptford Yard in Sunderland, England and used for maritime trade, as a troop ship and transport.
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Edo
Edo (江戸||"bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
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Eduard von Feuchtersleben
Eduard Freiherr von Feuchtersleben (30 July 1798 – 13 April 1857) was a Kraków-born mining engineer and writer.
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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
Ehden
Ehden (إِهْدِن, Syriac-Aramaic:ܐܗܕ ܢ) is a mountainous city in the heart of the northern mountains of Lebanon and on the southwestern slopes of Mount Makmal in the Mount Lebanon Range.
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Elevator
An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.
Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer.
Elisha Otis
Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) was an American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 182131 May 1910) was an Anglo-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom.
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Elizabeth Philpot
Elizabeth Philpot (1779–1857) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, amateur palaeontologist and artist who collected fossils from the cliffs around Lyme Regis in Dorset on the southern coast of England.
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
Ella Hepworth Dixon (27 March 1857 – 12 January 1932) was an English author and editor who wrote under the pen name Margaret Wynman.
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Embezzlement
Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer.
Ernst Trygger
Ernst Trygger (27 October 1857 – 23 September 1943) was a Swedish jurist, professor and conservative politician.
Escape of 28 enslaved people from Maryland (1857)
A group of 28 enslaved people from Maryland escaped their slaveholders on October 24, 1857.
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Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.
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Eugène Sue
Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist.
Eugène-François Vidocq
Eugène-François Vidocq (24 July 1775 – 11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac.
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Félix María Zuloaga
Félix María Zuloaga Trillo (1813–1898) was a Mexican conservative general and politician who played a key role in the outbreak of the Reform War in early 1860, a war which would see him elevated to the presidency of the nation.
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Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857
The Political Constitution of the Mexican Republic of 1857 (Constitución Política de la República Mexicana de 1857), often called simply the Constitution of 1857, was the liberal constitution promulgated in 1857 by Constituent Congress of Mexico during the presidency of Ignacio Comonfort.
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 185722 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.
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Finance
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
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Florencio Xatruch
Florencio Xatruch (October 21, 1811 – February 15, 1893) was a general who led the Honduran expeditionary force against William Walker in Nicaragua in 1856.
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Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth.
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (Franz Joseph Karl; Ferenc József Károly; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.
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Friedrich von Ingenohl
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Ingenohl (30 June 1857 – 19 December 1933) was a German admiral from Neuwied best known for his command of the German High Seas Fleet at the beginning of World War I. He was the son of a tradesman.
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Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.
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Genevieve Stebbins
Genevieve Stebbins (March 7, 1857 – September 21, 1934) was an American author, teacher of her system of Harmonic Gymnastics and performer of the Delsarte system of expression.
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Georg Michaelis
Georg Michaelis (8 September 1857 – 24 July 1936) was the chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917.
George Cayley
Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) was an English engineer, inventor, and aviator.
George Dayton
George Draper Dayton (March 6, 1857 – February 18, 1938) was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founder of Dayton's department store, which later became Target Corporation.
George Jackson Churchward
George Jackson Churchward (31 January 1857 – 19 December 1933) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.
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George Marchant
George Marchant (17 November 1857 – 5 September 1941) was a soft-drink manufacturer and philanthropist in Brisbane, Colony of Queensland.
George W. Minns
George Washington Minns (October 6, 1813 – January 14, 1895) was an American educator.
Great Slave Auction
The Great Slave Auction (also called the Weeping Time) was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia, United States, on March 2 and 3, 1859.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.
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Grebo people
The Grebo or Glebo people are an ethnic group or subgroup within the larger Kru group of Africa, a language and cultural ethnicity, and to certain of its constituent elements.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland (Soome laht; Suomenlahti; p; Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea.
Hamburg America Line
The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847.
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Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.
Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan (24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate.
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Henry Lawrence (Indian Army officer)
Brigadier General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, (28 June 1806 – 4 July 1857) was a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India.
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Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War.
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History of Mexico
The written history of Mexico spans more than three millennia.
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Hunter Liggett
Hunter Liggett (March 21, 1857 − December 30, 1935) was a senior United States Army officer.
Ida Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer.
Ignacio Comonfort
Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Ríos (12 March 1812 – 13 November 1863), known as Ignacio Comonfort, was a Mexican politician and soldier who was also president during La Reforma.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Illinois State University
Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois.
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
Inauguration of James Buchanan
The inauguration of James Buchanan as the 15th president of the United States was held on Wednesday, March 4, 1857, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 18th inauguration and marked the commencement of the only four-year term of both James Buchanan as president and John C.
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Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Ioan Popovici (divisional general)
Ioan Popovici (16 August 1857 – 6 August 1956) was a Romanian general and commander of the Romanian 1st Army Corps from 1916 to 1918 during World War I. Born in Galați, he attended the (Military Infantry and Cavalry School) in Bucharest from 1879 to 1881.
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Iowa
Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
James Lord Pierpont
James Lord Pierpont (April 25, 1822 – August 5, 1893)Lewis, Dave "", AllMusic, retrieved December 16, 2011 was an American songwriter, arranger, organist, Confederate States soldier, and composer.
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January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Jingle Bells
"Jingle Bells" is one of the most commonly sung songs in the world.
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Johann Voldemar Jannsen (in Vändra, Kreis Pernau, Livonia, Russian Empire –, in Tartu) was an Estonian journalist and poet active in Livonia.
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John de Barth Walbach
John Baptiste de Barth Walbach (October 3, 1766 – June 10, 1857) was an Alsatian baron who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, and was one of the few foreign-born senior officers in the United States Army prior to the American Civil War, attaining the rank of brevet brigadier general.
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John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke (September 18, 1857 – March 22, 1945) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1922.
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John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel (19 May 1857 – 26 May 1938) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist.
John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, (October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857) was a French-Canadian, later American, Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1824 to 1845.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 178826 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist.
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Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 14, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft.
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Joseph Tabrar
Joseph Tabrar (5 November 1857 – 22 August 1931) was a prolific English writer of popular music hall songs.
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón (24 July 1857 – 17 December 1935) was a Venezuelan military general, politician and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935.
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Julia Ditto Young
Julia Ditto Young (Ditto; December 4, 1857 – April 19, 1915) was an American poet and novelist.
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) was an Austrian physician, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so.
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Kardecist spiritism
Spiritism or Kardecism is a reincarnationist and spiritualist doctrine established in France in the mid-19th century by writer and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (a.k.a. Allan Kardec).
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Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Karl Adolph Gjellerup (2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917.
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Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson (born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English eugenicist, mathematician, and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology.
Kate Lester
Kate Lester (born Sarah Cody, 12 June 1857 – 12 October 1924) was an American theatrical and silent film actress.
Kerosene lamp
A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel.
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons.
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Knut Ångström
Knut Johan Ångström (12 January 18574 March 1910) was a Swedish physicist.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (a; – 19 September 1935) was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics.
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Kru people
The Kru, Krao, Kroo, or Krou are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to western Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.
La Tène culture
The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture.
Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.
Latter Day Saint movement
The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.
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Lawrence Marston
Lawrence Marston (June 8, 1857 – February 1, 1939) was an American actor, playwright, producer, stage director and film director.
Léon Charles Thévenin
Léon Charles Thévenin (30 March 1857, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne – 21 September 1926, Paris) was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.
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Léon de Witte de Haelen
Baron Léon Alphonse Ernest Bruno de Witte de Haelen, born Léon de Witte (12 January 1857 – 15 July 1933) was a Belgian army officer and general who served during World War I. He is particularly known for commanding the Belgian Cavalry Division at the Battle of Haelen in 1914.
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Lewis Bayly (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, (28 September 1857 – 16 May 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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List of members of the Swiss Federal Council
The seven members of the Swiss Federal Council (Schweizerischer Bundesrat; Conseil fédéral suisse; Consiglio federale svizzero; Cussegl federal svizzer) constitute the federal government of Switzerland and collectively serve as the country's head of state.
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Local option
A local option is the ability of local political jurisdictions, typically counties or municipalities, to allow decisions on certain controversial issues within their borders, usually referring to a popular vote.
London General Omnibus Company
The London General Omnibus Company or LGOC, was the principal bus operator in London between 1855 and 1933.
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Longchamp Racecourse
The Longchamp Racecourse (Hippodrome de Longchamp) is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes at the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Lucien Baudens
Lucien Jean-Baptiste Baudens (–) was a French military surgeon.
Lucy Bacon
Lucy Angeline Bacon (July 30, 1857 – October 17, 1932) was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes.
Lucy Wheelock
Lucy Wheelock (February 1, 1857October 1, 1946) was an American early childhood education pioneer within the American kindergarten movement.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Malnicherra Tea Estate
Malnicherra Tea Estate (also known as Malnichhera Tea Garden) is a tea garden located in Sylhet district of Bangladesh.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events taking place just before the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857.
Manuel José Quintana
Manuel José Quintana y Lorenzo (April 11, 1772 - March 11, 1857), was a Spanish poet and man of letters.
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Manuel Oribe
Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana (August 26, 1792 – November 12, 1857) was the 2nd Constitutional president of Uruguay and founder of Uruguay's National Party, the oldest Uruguayan political party and considered one of the two Uruguayan "traditional" parties, along with the Colorado Party, which was, until the 20th century, its only political adversary.
March
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Marguerite Merington
Marguerite Merington (1857 – May 20, 1951) was an English-born American author of short stories, essays, dramatic works, and biographies.
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Martha Hughes Cannon
Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon (July 1, 1857 – July 10, 1932) was a British-American politician, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, and a polygamous wife engaged in polygyny.
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Martinus Theunis Steyn
Martinus (or Marthinus) Theunis Steyn (2 October 1857 – 28 November 1916) was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman.
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Mary Gage Day
Mary Gage Day (Gage; June 20, 1857 – March 7, 1935) was an American physician and medical writer.
Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Max Wagenknecht
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht (14 August 1857 – 7 May 1922) was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Maximilian Spinola
Maximilian Spinola (Massimiliano Spinola; July 10, 1780 – November 12, 1857) was an Italian entomologist.
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Mihail Savov
Mihail Georgiev Savov (Михаил Савов) (14 November 1857 in Stara Zagora - 21 July 1928 in Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey, France) was a Bulgarian general, twice Minister of Defence (1891–1894 and 1903–1907), second in command of the Bulgarian army during the Balkan Wars.
Mikhail Alekseyev
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev (Михаил Васильевич Алексеев) (&ndash) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War.
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Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Михаилъ Ивановичъ Глинка.|Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka|mʲɪxɐˈil‿ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ‿ˈɡlʲinkə|Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.
Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
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Mormons
Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train.
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Mrs. Leslie Carter
Caroline Louise Dudley (June 10, 1857 – November 13, 1937) was an American silent film and stage actress who found fame on Broadway through collaborations with impresario David Belasco.
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Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
Muhammad Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi
Abu-al-Tayyab Muhammad Shams-al-Haq bin Shaikh Ameer ‘Ali bin Shaikh Maqsood ‘Ali bin Shaikh Ghulam Haidar bin Shaikh Hedayetullah bin Shaikh Muhammad Zahid bin Shaikh Noor Muhammad bin Shaikh ‘Ala’uddin, also known as Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi, was a scholar of Hadith from India.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Mutiny
Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders.
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Nat Goodwin
Nathaniel Carl Goodwin (July 25, 1857 – January 31, 1919) was an American male actor and vaudevillian born in Boston.
Ned Williamson
Edward Nagle Williamson (October 24, 1857 – March 3, 1894) was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball.
NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital
New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital is a nonprofit, acute care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan south of Greenwich Village.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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Normal, Illinois
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States.
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company
The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company was a banking institution based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which existed from 1830 to 1857.
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Okoboji, Iowa
Okoboji is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States, along the eastern shore of West Okoboji Lake in the Iowa Great Lakes region.
Old Style and New Style dates
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.
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Orange Free State
The Orange Free State (Oranje Vrijstaat; Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
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Oscar II
Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.
Oskar von Hutier
Oskar Emil von Hutier (27 August 1857 – 5 December 1934) was a German general during the First World War.
Ottawa
Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.
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Otto von Below
Otto Ernst Vinzent Leo von Below (18 January 1857 – 9 March 1944) served as a Prussian general officer in the Imperial German Army during the First World War (1914–1918).
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
Parley P. Pratt
Parley Parker Pratt Sr. (April 12, 1807 – May 13, 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Paul Doumer
Joseph Athanase Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (22 March 18577 May 1932), was a French politician who served as the President of France from June 1931 until his assassination in May 1932.
Paul Dresser
Paul Dresser (born Johann Paul Dreiser Jr.; April 22, 1857 – January 30, 1906) was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich (5 October 1856 – 1 July 1942; P.T. MacGinley), known as Cú Uladh (The Hound of Ulster), was an Irish language writer during the Gaelic revival.
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Phonautograph
The phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound.
Port Jackson
Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Postimees
is an Estonian daily newspaper established on 5 June 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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President of Mexico
The president of Mexico (Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States (Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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President of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.
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Prime Minister of Romania
The prime minister of Romania (Prim-ministrul României), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania (Prim-ministrul Guvernului României), is the head of the Government of Romania.
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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria.
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Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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Prison ship
A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees.
Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
Reform War
The Reform War, or War of Reform (Guerra de Reforma), also known as the Three Years' War (Guerra de los Tres Años), and the Mexican Civil War, was a complex civil conflict in Mexico fought between Mexican liberals and conservatives with regional variations over the promulgation of Constitution of 1857.
Republic of Maryland
The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia.
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Richard Mansfield
Richard Mansfield (24 May 1857 – 30 August 1907) was an English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement.
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Robert C. Hilliard (actor)
Robert Cochran Hilliard (May 28, 1857 - June 6, 1927) was an American stage actor.
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Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe.
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
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Russian ship of the line Lefort
Lefort (Лефорт; also spelled "Leffort") was an Imperatritsa Aleksandra–class ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy, rated at 84 guns but actually armed with 94 guns.
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San Jose State University
San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California.
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Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.
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Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports.
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted United Kingdom, France, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in both the Gregorian calendar and the less commonly used Julian calendar.
Sergei Sheydeman
Sergei Mikhailovich Sheydeman (Сергей Михайлович Шейдеман; Sergei Michailowitsch Scheidemann; August 18, 1857 – 1922) was an army commander of the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. After the October Revolution, he sided with the Bolsheviks.
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.
Sheffield F.C.
Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Dronfield, North East Derbyshire.
Siege of Cawnpore
The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857.
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Siege of Lucknow
The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys (Indian soldiers in the British East India Company's Army) during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Sophia of Nassau
Sophia of Nassau (Sophia Wilhelmine Marianne Henriette; 9 July 1836 – 30 December 1913), also Sofia, was Queen of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Oscar II.
Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Spirit Lake Massacre
The Spirit Lake Massacre (March 8–12, 1857) was an attack by a Wahpekute band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter.
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Spirit Lake, Iowa
Spirit Lake is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States.
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Squall
A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed lasting minutes, as opposed to a wind gust, which lasts for only seconds.
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Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales
The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales (or more commonly the Stanford–Binet) is an individually administered intelligence test that was revised from the original Binet–Simon Scale by Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon.
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Stefano Franscini
Stefano Franscini (23 October 1796 – 19 July 1857) was a Swiss politician and statistician.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Sylhet District
Sylhet District (সিলেট জেলা), located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in the Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital.
Target Corporation
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.
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Théodore Tuffier
Théodore-Marin Tuffier, known as Théodore Tuffier (26 March 1857 – 27 October 1929.
The Independent (Bangladesh)
The Independent was an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.
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The Spirits Book
The Spirits' Book (Le Livre des Esprits in French) is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works on Spiritism.
Theo van Gogh (art dealer)
Theodorus van GoghNaifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith.
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Theodor Curtius
Geheimrat Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere.
Theodor Escherich
Theodor Escherich (29 November 1857 – 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Graz and Vienna.
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Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.
Tin mining
Tin mining began early in the Bronze Age, as bronze is a copper-tin alloy.
Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris (October 4, 1804 – February 25, 1878) was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan.
Union between Sweden and Norway
Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway (Svensk-norska unionen; Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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University of Mumbai
The University of Mumbai (previously University of Bombay) is a public state university in Mumbai.
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Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen
Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen (June 2, 1857 – January 18, 1943) was a Norwegian rear admiral and industry leader.
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Uryū Sotokichi
Baron was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, active in the Russo-Japanese War, most notably at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay and the Battle of Tsushima.
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Utah War
The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition, the Utah Campaign, Buchanan's Blunder, the Mormon War, or the Mormon Rebellion, was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government.
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Васи́лий Андре́евич Тропи́нин; &ndash) was a Russian Romantic painter.
Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
Victor Horsley
Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley (14 April 1857 – 16 July 1916) was a British scientist and professor.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Vienna Ring Road
The Vienna Ring Road (Ringstraße,, lit. ring road) is a 5.3 km (3.3 mi) circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt (Inner Town) district of Vienna, Austria.
Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel
Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel (May 10, 1857 – April 17, 1938) was a colonel general in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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Vittorio Ranuzzi de' Bianchi
Vittorio Amedeo Ranuzzi de' Bianchi (14 July 1857 – 16 February 1927) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1896 that provides affordable housing and other assistance services primarily to low-income people throughout the United States.
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Walter Simon (philanthropist)
Walter Simon (30 April 1857, Königsberg – 1 April 1920) was a German banker, councillor and philanthropist active in Königsberg and Tübingen.
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William A. MacCorkle
William Alexander MacCorkle (May 7, 1857 – September 24, 1930), was an American teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth Governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier.
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William Daniel (Maryland politician)
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897) was an American politician from the state of Maryland.
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William Henry Playfair
William Henry Playfair FRSE (15 July 1790 – 19 March 1857) was a prominent Scottish architect in the 19th century who designed the Eastern, or Third, New Town and many of Edinburgh's neoclassical landmarks.
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William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices.
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William Walker (filibuster)
William Walker (May 8, 1824September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.
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Williamina Fleming
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857 – 21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer.
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Youssef Bey Karam
Youssef Bey Karam (يوسف بك كرم, also Joseph Bey Karam; May 15, 1823 – April 7, 1889) was a Lebanese Maronite notable for fighting in the 1860 civil conflict and leading a rebellion in 1866–1867 against Ottoman rule in Mount Lebanon.
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12th Dalai Lama
Trinley Gyatso (also spelled Trinle Gyatso and Thinle Gyatso; 28 December 1856 – 25 April 1875) was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
1775
The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement on April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's ride.
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1857 Basilicata earthquake
The 1857 Basilicata earthquake (also known as the Great Neapolitan earthquake) occurred on 16 December in the Basilicata region of Italy southeast of the city of Naples.
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1857 Fort Tejon earthquake
The 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake occurred at about 8:20 a.m. (Pacific time) on January 9 in central and Southern California.
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1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
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1915
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
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1916
Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.
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1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
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1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days.
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1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
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1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
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1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
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1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
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1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
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1943
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
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1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
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1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
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1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857
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