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1 giorno fa · By 1838, the British were selling roughly 1,400 tons of opium per year to China. Legalization of the opium trade was the subject of ongoing debate within the Chinese administration, but a proposal to legalise the narcotic was repeatedly rejected, and in 1838 the government began to actively sentence Chinese drug traffickers to death.
2 giorni fa · Upon emancipation in 1838, almost all of the former slaves abandoned the plantations, and Indians were brought to the country under indenture contracts from 1838 until the end of the system in 1917. The production of balatá (natural latex) was once a big business in Guyana.
2 giorni fa · In 1838, Babbage invented the pilot (also called a cow-catcher), the metal frame attached to the front of locomotives that clears the tracks of obstacles; he also constructed a dynamometer car. His eldest son, Benjamin Herschel Babbage , worked as an engineer for Brunel on the railways before emigrating to Australia in the 1850s.
5 giorni fa · Per chiarimenti vedi il progetto biografie. La lista contiene solo le 1.131 persone che sono citate nell'enciclopedia e per le quali è stato implementato correttamente il template Bio. Pagina aggiornata al 21 mag 2024 . Indice. XIII secolo (1) 1298 - Alberto II lo Sciancato, nobile austriaco († 1358) XV secolo (2)
3 giorni fa · 1838 10 January: A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange. 8 April: The National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, which is being cleared at the time.
2 giorni fa · Osburh. Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young. Three of Alfred's brothers, Æthelbald, Æthelberht and ...
4 giorni fa · In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an Indian massacre is any incident between European colonists and indigenous peoples wherein one group killed a significant number of the other group outside the confines of mutual combat in war .
