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5 giorni fa · Heavy. The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are a Native American nation which coalesced in northern Florida during the early 1700s, when the territory was still a Spanish ...
4 giorni fa · Pam. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain stood at ...
3 giorni fa · 1837: Samuel Morse invents Morse code. 1838: Moritz von Jacobi invents electrotyping. 1839: William Otis invents the steam shovel. 1839: James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer. 1839: Edmond Becquerel invents a method for the photovoltaic effect, effectively producing the first solar cell. 1839: Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber.
2 giorni fa · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English.
3 giorni fa · Martin Van Burin ( / vænˈbjʊərən / van BURE-ən; Dutch: Maarten van Buren [ˈmaːrtə (n) vɑm ˈbyːrə (n)] ⓘ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New York's ...
5 giorni fa · 1837 – James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915) 1864 – Arthur Collins, American baritone singer (d. 1933) 1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957) 1870 – Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist (d. 1937) 1871 – Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1927)
3 giorni fa · Euston was the first inter-city railway station in London. It opened on 20 July 1837 as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR). It was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with the present building in the international modern style. The site was chosen in 1831 by George and Robert Stephenson, engineers of the L&BR.
