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- Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- In a message to Congress on January 24, 1856, President Franklin Pierce ... On May 21, 1856, a group of border ruffians entered the Free-State ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...7 KB (1,185 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. ...9 KB (1,467 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- the List of the Birds of Essex County (1856). Through this work he was invited to become curator of ornithology in the Essex Institute, a position ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- ==Election of 1856== [[Image:ElectoralCollege1856-Large.png|300px|thumb ... The Democrats nominated Buchanan in 1856 largely because he was in ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- In 1856, the year he began his 100 Famous Views of Edo, Hiroshige ... 1837), and “One Hundred Views of Edo” (1856–58). He repeatedly executed ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- (New York: William Reed & Co., 1856). ==Political influence== ... php Biography by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, 1856] *[http://famousamericans ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Russian: Михаил Александрович Врубель; March 17, 1856 - April 14, 1910, all n.s.) is ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- presidential nomination in 1852 and 1856. ==Personal and family== ... was Robert M. Douglas). On November 20, 1856, he married 20-year-old Adele ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- will its economical culture be developed. (List 1856) ===Stages of ... and is nevertheless a public blessing" (List 1856). ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- * Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) * Eugène Vallin (1856-1922) * Henry Van de Velde (1863-1957) ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- to raise more money. He stayed there until 1856, becoming owner and editor ... In 1856, Gardner and his family moved to the United States. Learning ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1856 cartoon depicts a giant [ ... against Kansas." The same day, May 21, 1856, a mob of pro-slavery settlers ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- an opéra comique with a tragic end (1856), and revisions of Le cheval ... *Manon Lescaut (23 February 1856, Opéra Comique, Paris) ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Caterino Kavos, an opera composer, and reopened in 1856. During World War II, the theater was damaged by a bomb but was promptly repaired. ...6 KB (876 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- enjoying moderate success. Between 1854 and 1856, his work appeared in the ... In 1856, he published his first piece of work under the name that ...15 KB (2,406 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- * Hutchinson, William Thomas. Seed-time, 1809-1856. New York & ... * Hutchinson, William Thomas. Harvest, 1856-1884. New York: The Century ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- The Mormon handcart movement began in 1856 and continued until 1860. ... enthusiastically to the new plan. In 1856 the Perpetual Emigration Fund ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- In the period between November 1852 and September 1856, Livingstone ... In 1856, Livingstone returned to England as a national hero and started ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- (1831-1837), then Keeper of Printed Books (1837-1856) and finally Chief Librarian (1856-1866). Panizzi retired in July, 1866. For his extraordinary ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- first volume of his Mikrokosmus (vol. i. 1856, vol. ii. 1858, vol. iii. ... === Mikrokosmus (1856-1864) === The three volumes of Mikrokosmus were ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856|url=https://books.google.com/books ... Millais-Blind Girl.jpg|The Blind Girl (1856) 「生寫異國人物」 ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Chicago Press and the Know Nothings 1850-1856 (M.A. Dissertation, University ... * Cole, Bruce M. 1948. The Chicago Press and the Know Nothings 1850 ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- huge forces equipped with small arms. By 1856, the Taiping armies numbered ... the North King during a coup d'etat in 1856, and the North King himself ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- in the army until he resigned his commission in 1856. In 1857 he married the sister of literary critic, Vasily Botkin. She provided him the means that ...6 KB (983 words) - 05:56, 16 June 2023
- dyestuffs. The discovery of mauve in 1856 by William Perkin was the ... of mauveine, a purple dye discovered in 1856 by William Henry Perkin. ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- historical fiction, as shown in The Heroes (1856), a children's book about ... describe Tom Brown's School Days, an 1856 novel about life at Rugby ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- as director of Revue de Paris from 1851-1856. During these years Gautier ... * 1856: L’Art moderne * 1858: Le Roman de la momie, Honoré de Balzac ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- have realized from his invention (Anonymous 1856). ===Later years=== ... where he remained with his family from 1856 to 1858. During this time ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), tell of a rich landowner ... *Youth (Юность [Yunost]; 1856) *Sevastopol Stories (Севастопо ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations ... * “The Piazza Tales” (1856) ** “The Piazza” — the only story ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- began to waver in favor marriage. The two married in 1856, and had seven children, two of which died in infancy. ==Women's rights work== ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, as well as a gifted landscape ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- === Ghezo (Gakpe) 1818-1856 === [[File:Flag of Ghezo of Dahomey.png ... === Glele, 1856-1889 === Badohou, who took the throne name Glele, is ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- United States presidential election. In 1856 he failed to win election ... to join the Republican Party; instead, in 1856, he accepted the nomination ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Female College in Baltimore, Maryland from 1856 to 1860. Before the Civil War formally began, Belle took a firm stance as a Confederate sympathizer ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 20:18, 20 January 2022
- discrimination against American Jews. In 1856, he protested against a state ... *The Last Struggle of the Nation, 1856 *The Combat of the People, or ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- first pair of Senators from California. In 1856, the new Republican Party ... #039; first standard-bearer from 1856, and; the political collaboration ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- of Last Island, a novella based on the hurricane of 1856 first published in Harper's Monthly in 1888. Hearn was little known then, and even today ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- progress of liberty. His severe beating in 1856 by South Carolina Representative ... In 1856, during the Bloody Kansas crisis when "border ruffians ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- article in The Illustrated London News (February 9, 1856, page 166) that, in 1856, workmen laboring in a tunnel for a railway line, between Saint-Dizier ...17 KB (2,484 words) - 23:32, 2 December 2022
- family factory, which during the Crimean War (1853-1856) produced munitions for the Russian side. After the war, Immanuel Nobel had trouble adjusting ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- to the People," which was presented at the 1856 Republican Party's convention in Pittsburgh. Raymond also served as president of the Republican ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- *The Shaving of Shagpat (1856) *Farina (1857) *The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) *Evan Harrington (1861) *Emilia in England (1864), republished ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- 1854, in Boston; and of the two Garner families in 1856, in Cincinnati, with other cases arising under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, probably had as ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- After a journey to Constantinople and the Crimea in 1856, he found an outlet for his restless energy by undertaking the supervision of the construction ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- enlist, and he returned to Victoria in December 1856. He returned to his posting at Beechworth, and from there attended the "Buckland Valley ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- *Ugoni, Camillo. 1856. Della letteratura italiana nella seconda metà del secolo XVIII. Milano: Tip. di G. Bernardoni. *Wahnbaeck, Till. 2004 ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- *After the Dark (1856) *The Dead Secret (1857) *The Frozen Deep (1857), a play co-written with Charles Dickens *A House to Let (1858), a short ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- were found to display some spectral lines. In 1856, Charles Piazzi Smyth detected infrared radiation in the light of the Moon. == Modern infrared ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- **West African seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856 ... **Thorny seahorse, Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 (Indian Ocean, Persian ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- A. Benisch, Travels of Petachia of Ratisbon (London, 1856). ... Syria, the Holy Land, and Greece. London: Turner, 1856. ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- * French Adaptation of As You Like It (1856) * Le Marquis De Villemer (1864) * L'Autre (1870, with Sarah Bernhardt) ==Depiction in film ...8 KB (1,162 words) - 16:34, 15 August 2021
- 1855) chiefly to physics and mathematics. By 1856, however, his old love for chemistry re-awakened and drew him to Robert Bunsen's laboratory ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- 300px|Most popular contributors to Sovremennik in 1856 (left to right): Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Grigorovich, Alexander Druzhinin ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- Paschal Taché of Canada East for the years 1856 and 1857. ... years=1856 – 1858| after=George Brown }} {{succession box| ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- quot; (the eponymous skeleton was found in 1856, but there had been finds ... specimen found during an archaeology dig in August 1856. ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- the most popular of her longer poems, appeared in 1856. In 1850, The Sonnets from the Portuguese—the history of her own love-story, thinly disguised ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- *Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, 1853 (opened in 1856) ... Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy, 1856. * Rybczynski, Witold ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- would later write about in English Traits (1856). During this trip, he met ... *English Traits (1856) *The Conduct of Life (1860; includes "Fate ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Claiming the coastal strip, Omani Sultan Seyyid Said (1797-1856) moved ... Seyyid Majid who was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1856-1870. ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- perfect pretext for war with Venice.Finlay (1856), 128. Despite a long period ... London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1856. * Finkel, Caroline. Osman ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- Party and served in the state legislature (1856-57) and Congress (1877-79). He considered himself abolitionist and a supporter of women’s rights ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- Buchanan as the Democratic candidate in the 1856 presidential election. ... of the Franklin Pierce Presidency (1854-1856)", White House Studies ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- *Lepsius, Karl R. [1856] 2001. Uber die Gotter der vier Elemente bei den Egyptern. Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN 0543991962 *Lepsius, Karl R ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- In 1856, Kekulé became Privatdozent at the University of Heidelberg. In 1857, he published a paper in which he describes his theory of tetravalency ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- In 1856, he accepted a post as a teacher at the plantation of Col. William Henry Cannon in the area that would later become Florence, South Carolina ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- this responsibility for 20 years, and in 1856 became chief of the examiner’s ... became head of the examiner’s office in 1856 and served until the British ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- in Vienna. It attracted Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) who later founded ... events and past experience. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) and Josef Brener ...21 KB (2,860 words) - 21:27, 25 January 2024
- * Jean Moréas (1856-1910) * Albert Samain (1858-1900) * Rémy de Gourmont ... *Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) *Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- slaves, as discussed above; (2) Lee's 1856 letter to his wife in which ... given by President Franklin Pierce, December 1856. *"It is well ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- Radha and Krishna. When Ramkumar died in 1856, Ramakrishna became the temple priest. Overwhelmed by the loss of his brother, Ramakrishna prayed ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- On June 6, 1856, the descendants of Tahitians and the Bounty mutineers ... memory of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders in 1856. ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- From 1851 to 1856, Wilhelm Wundt studied at Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Berlin. After graduating in medicine from the University of Heidelberg ...20 KB (2,709 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- managed by his sons, Alfred V. du Pont (1798–1856) and Henry du Pont (1812–1889), in the years after his death. The site of his gunpowder ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- Van der Waals taught primary school from 1856 to 1861, and from 1862 to 1865 he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden. ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- Following the 1856 publication of Robert Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, the Dravidian ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- one of his concubines. On September 2, 1856, Hong ordered the murder of ... Hong’s health had begun to deteriorate in 1856. Some sources claim ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- tried to have his part recognized. Said Young (1856): Whether he (Champollion ... *Young, Thomas. 1856. The Christian Remembrancer: A Quarterly Review ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Cochise as chief, and Naiche, born in 1856. During this time, Cochise hoping that the Americans who had taken over the area from Mexico would ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
- Ivan Vasilievich Kireevsky (April 3, 1806 – June 23, 1856) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 07:38, 12 March 2024
- |ArgueYear=1856 |ReargueDateA=February 15 |ReargueDateB=18 ... |Citation=60 U.S. (19 How.) 393; 15 L. Ed. 691; 1856 WL 8721; 1857 ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- had seen black men enfranchised, women were not. In 1856 she refused to pay property taxes on the basis that there should be no taxation without representation ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- 1854 when his mind again turned to politics. In 1856 he received some support for the Republican Vice-Presidential nomination, and in 1858 he engaged ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
- on November 17, 1855, during his 1852-1856 journey from the upper Zambezi to the mouth of the river. Livingstone reached the Falls from upriver ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- * Bidwell, W.H., (ed.). 1856. "Men of Science." The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art. 90-104. * De La Rive, ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- . On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856, he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 10:58, 19 December 2023
- *The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1856) *Commonplace (1870) *Sing-Song: a Nursery Rhyme Book (1872, 1893) [http://digital.library.upenn ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- The collaboration lasted from 1852 to 1856, during which they discovered ... at a meeting of the British Association in 1856 by Wildman Whitehouse, the ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- he spent four months walking across Wisconsin. In 1856, he rowed the Mississippi River from St. Anthony to the sea. In 1857, he rowed down the Ohio River ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- which were published in almanacs between 1835 and 1856 (along with those of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson) was "Be always sure you are right, then ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- (1851-1931) and Sergei Winogradsky (1856-1953), the founders of general microbiology (an older term encompassing aspects of microbial physiology ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- **Part IV. Of Many Things (1856) **Part V. Mountain Beauty (1856) **Part VI. Of Leaf Beauty (1860) ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
