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1 giorno fa · Revolutions of 1848–1849 and First Italian War of Independence. Execution of the Bandiera Brothers. In 1844, two brothers from Venice, Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, members of Young Italy, planned to make a raid on the Calabrian coast against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in support of Italian unification.
5 giorni fa · Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person, depicted as saintly and dignified, noble and steadfast in his beliefs. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, an angelic and forgiving young girl, whose grateful father then purchases Tom. Eva and Tom soon become great ...
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1 giorno fa · The conflict lasted for 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of Taiping-controlled Nanjing —which they had renamed "Tianjing"—in 1864. However, the last rebel forces were not defeated until August 1871. Estimates of the conflict's death toll range between 20 and 30 million people, representing 5–10% of China's population. [4] .
5 giorni fa · Romanticism is the attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary.
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3 giorni fa · 1825: William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet. 1827: John Walker invents modern-day matches. 1827: Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone. 1829: W.A. Burt invents the typographer, the precursor to the typewriter. 1829: Louis Braille develops his eponymous method of raised printing to be read by the blind.
5 giorni fa · In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity, sometimes defined as the "late modern period". In the context of global history, the early modern period is ...
4 giorni fa · In 1850 was exhibited 'Napoleon's Passage over the Alps;' in this picture were represented some fifty thousand men in motion, who, in the front, appeared of life-size, and who, in fact, were living men, but who were made, by an optical illusion, to dwindle gradually at different distances to the veriest specks which the eye could ...
