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4 giorni fa · Contents. hide. (Top) 1800 to 1809. 1810 to 1819. 1820 to 1829. 1830 to 1839. 1840 to 1849. 1850 to 1859. 1860 to 1869. 1870 to 1879. 1880 to 1889. 1890 to 1899. See also. References. Bibliography. External links. Timeline of London (19th century)
2 giorni fa · Battle of Monmouth. James Monroe ( / mənˈroʊ / mən-ROH; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the ...
4 giorni fa · 1810s Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse, in 1819. 1810: Nicolas Appert invents the canning process for food. 1810: Abraham-Louis Breguet creates the first wristwatch. 1811: Friedrich Koenig invents the first powered printing press, which was also the first to use a cylinder.
3 giorni fa · The Haymarket Opera House. This chapter describes the theatre known at various dates as the Queen's, the King's, Her Majesty's, His Majesty's, or the Opera House. It also describes the Royal Opera Arcade and the Carlton Hotel. With the single exception of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the southern part of the site of Her Majesty's Theatre in ...
3 giorni fa · Castlereagh might well have felt it his duty to bribe the Irish Parliament into extinction, to outspokenly justify the government’s repressive measures of the late 1810s, and to pay £250,000 in Secret Service money to the spies and informers who dug up dirt on Caroline.
1 giorno fa · CHAPTER V. CHELSEA. "The sands of Chelsey Fields."—Ben Jonson.. Boundary of the Parish—Etymology of its Name—Charles II. and Colonel Blood—Chelsea Fields—The "Dwarf's Tavern"—Chapels of French Huguenot Refugees—Gardens and Nurseries—Appearance of Chelsea from the River—Chelsea in the Last Century—A Stag Hunt in Chelsea—History of the Manor—The Old Manor House and its ...
2 giorni fa · Amanda Vickery's new book is largely based on several rich collections of women's letters and diaries, most notably those of Elizabeth Parker Shackleton, whose family belonged to the lesser gentry and mercantile elite of Lancashire in the eighteenth century. These women's voices -- in turns passionate, pious, sentimental and sardonic, resentful ...
