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2 giorni fa · Dolendosi un po' delle frequenti lamentele dei vari interpreti, nel 1819 dichiarò al suo editore: «Ecco una sonata che darà filo da torcere ai pianisti, quando la eseguiranno tra cinquanta anni».
1 giorno fa · Historiography. See also. Notes. References. Bibliography. Further reading. External links. War of 1812. The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812.
4 giorni fa · Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
5 giorni fa · Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the Napoleonic Wars.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · 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.
4 giorni fa · Sir John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer who led an ill-fated expedition (1845) in search of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His ships the Terror and the Erebus were discovered by Canadian expeditions in the 21st century.
2 giorni fa · The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
