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2 giorni fa · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century. [4]
1 giorno fa · 1999–2003: The Second Liberian Civil War against the government of Liberia. 1999–2009: The Second Chechen Rebellion against Russia. 1999: The Iran student protests, July 1999 were, at the time, the most violent protests to occur against the Islamic Republic of Iran. 1999–2000: The Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia.
2 giorni fa · 1800s. 1800: Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic pile, an early form of battery in Italy, based on previous works by Luigi Galvani. 1802: Humphry Davy invents the arc lamp (exact date unclear; not practical as a light source until the invention of efficient electric generators).
1 giorno fa · Footnotes. Social Life, 1835–1900. In 1859 the poor-law guardians proposed to build new offices in Museum Street. The proposal was immediately the subject of protests from the members of the Yorkshire Club, the corporation, and the physicians and surgeons of the County Hospital.
4 giorni fa · Footnotes. THE AGE OF REFORMS, 1800–82. In the early decades of the new century the University continued in its traditional ways, small in numbers and parochial in outlook.
3 giorni fa · Footnotes. Social Life 1800–39. The demands of the gentry living in and around York still helped to determine the nature of the city's economy in the first few decades of the 19th century. The races and the assizes still attracted the gentry. For others the hangings which inevitably followed the assizes were an occasion of public entertainment.
6 giorni fa · Flashpoints such as the Swing riots, Tolpuddle, and the New Poor Law riots have long attracted the attention of historians, but here John E. Archer focuses on the persistent war waged in the countryside during the 1800s, analysing the prevailing climate of unrest, discontent, and desperation.
