1861 naar onderwerp: Lijst van landen: Juliaanse kalender van 1861: Gregoriaanse kalender van 1861: Cent van de Geconfedereerde Staten. Het jaar 1861 is het 61e jaar in de 19e eeuw volgens de christelijke jaartelling Gebeurtenissen januari. 1 - Liberale troepen nemen Mexico-Stad in ...

The Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (Russian: Крестьянская реформа 1861 года, romanized: Krestyanskaya reforma 1861 goda – "peasants' reform of 1861") was the first and most important of the liberal reforms enacted during the reign (1855–1881) of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

The Ottoman Army was the army of the Ottoman Empire after the country was reorganized along modern western European lines during the Tanzimat modernization period. It operated during the decline and dissolution of the empire, which roughly occurred between 1861 (though some sources date back to 1842) and 1918, the end of World War I for the Ottomans.The Crimean …

Description and career as Fingal. Fingal was designed and built as a merchantman by J&G Thomson's Clyde Bank Iron Shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland, and was completed early in 1861. She was described by Midshipman Dabney Scales, who served on the Atlanta before her battle with the monitors, as being a two-masted, iron-hulled ship 189 feet (57.6 m) long with a …

The lira (Italian: ; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually form the Kingdom of Italy in 1861. It was subdivided into 100 centesimi (singular: centesimo), which means "hundredths" or …

The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, in Baltimore, Maryland.It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland) and other Southern/Confederate sympathizers on one side, and on the other, members of Massachusetts …

USS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, gaining its namesake from the Housatonic River of New England.. Housatonic was launched on 20 November 1861, by the Boston Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Jane Coffin Colby and Miss Susan Paters Hudson; and commissioned there on 29 August 1862, with Commander William …

Commissioned in Philadelphia in 1861. The first U.S. Navy ship to be so named, USS Sciota was one of the "ninety-day gunboats" rushed through construction at the beginning of the Civil War, Sciota was laid down in the summer of 1861 at Philadelphia by Jacob Birley and J. P. Morris and Company; launched on 15 October 1861; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on …

Robert Bosch wurde in Albeck nordöstlich von Ulm geboren und war das zweitjüngste von zwölf Kindern. Seine Eltern Servatius (1816–1880) und Maria Margarethe Bosch, geb.Dölle (1818–1898) gehörten der regionalen bäuerlichen Oberschicht an. Der Vater war Gastwirt des Gasthauses Krone und Freimaurer. Er war über seinen Stand hinaus gebildet und legte besonderen Wert auf …

Irish-American Catholics served on both sides of the American Civil War (1861–1865) as officers, volunteers and draftees. Immigration due to the Irish Great Famine (1845–1852) had provided many thousands of men as potential recruits although issues of race, religion, pacifism and personal allegiance created some resistance to service. A significant body of these veterans …

From statehood to the Civil War. When California was admitted as a state under the Compromise of 1850, Californians had already decided it was to be a free state—the constitutional convention of 1849 unanimously abolished slavery. As a result, Southerners in Congress voted against admission in 1850 while Northerners pushed it through, pointing to its population of 93,000 and …

August 24, 1861 – Dante Testa, Italian actor and director; December 8, 1861 – Georges Méliès, French filmmaker; December 20, 1861 – Ferdinand Bonn, German stage and film actor; November 4, 1862 – Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian stage and film actor; April 19, 1863 – Hemmo Kallio, Finnish stage and film actor

History. ASI was founded in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham who also became its first Director-General. The first systematic research into the subcontinent's history was conducted by the Asiatic Society, which was founded by the British Indologist William Jones on 15 January 1784. Based in Calcutta, the society promoted the study of ancient Sanskrit and Persian texts and …

Allan Pinkerton, né le 25 août 1819 à Glasgow et mort le 1 er juillet 1884 à Chicago, est un détective privé américain.. Biographie. Né dans une famille pauvre, Allan Pinkerton - fils de William et Isabelle Pinkerton - émigre aux États-Unis en 1842 et trouve un premier emploi de tonnelier près de Chicago (), puis devient shérif adjoint.En 1849, il travaille pour la police de …