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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
9: ...val from command in the West on [[November 2]], [[1861]]. He was re-appointed to a different post (in [[...
13: ... Wyoming|Wyoming]]. Several cities are also named after him, such as [[Fremont, California]] and [[Fre...
15: ..., including the first discovery of the [[Single-leaf Pinyon]]. The standard [[Binomial nomenclature#Au...
21: ...ates Senators from California]]|before=''(none)''|after=[[John B. Weller]]|years=1850 – 1851}}
22: ...idential nominees|candidate]]| before=''(none)''| after=[[Abraham Lincoln]]| years=[[U.S. presidential... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
11: * [[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[S...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s King...
110: [[af:4 November]] - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
9: ...btained almost all of the island during this war. After rallying Sardinian forces, Eleonora was able t...
11: ...n Sardinia until [[Italy|Italian]] unification in 1861.
13: ...s, the Eleanor Falcon (Falco eleonorae) was named after her. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...mother and her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was sc...
20: ...hat Albert's and now her own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha a...
37: ...e, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theories afflicted the country with a wave of patriotism and ...
43: ...ord's acquittal in 1840. On [[3 July]], just days after Francis' sentence was commuted, another boy, [...
46: ...Victoria was the [[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary]], [[Henry John Temple, 3r... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...he Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fello...
8: ...sioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: By [[1872]], after studying in the major European museums, her st...
18: ...g to care for her mother and sister, who fell ill after moving to Paris in [[1877]]. Her sister died i...
27: After a trip to Egypt in [[1910]], where she was awe... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
12: Two years after the death of Lewes, on [[May 6]], [[1880]] she...
30: * ''[[Silas Marner]]'' (1861) - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
12: ...chusetts town, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to teach in a private school i...
14: ...German, ancient history, philosophy and religion. Afterward, she was appointed to a job as a clerk in ...
17: ...cepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek and comfort the afflicted everywhere, and as a [[Christian]] he char...
21: ...ss of the Army Medical Department. In April 1861, after the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], she establis... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...ombaia' in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], she was named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister...
27: ... On [[October 21]], [[1854]], Nightingale and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightin...
31: ...ers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine...
35: ...nd curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently given to the Nighting...
39: ... in Crimea earned her the everlasting respect and affection of the common soldier. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
10: ...Battle of Fredericksburg]] and in [[Chattanooga]] after the [[Battle of Chickamauga]]. Finally, she w...
12: ...] and head of an [[orphanage]] in [[Tennessee]]. After the war, she was recommended for the Medal of ...
20: After the war, she became a writer and lecturer, sup...
22: ... [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]], after revising the standards for award of the medal ... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...'' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States o...
5: ...lbert and Sullivan's]] [[operetta]] ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]''. This would serve as an inauspicious begin... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc...
52: ...arch 29]], [[1790]], was the first president born after the adoption of the [[United States Constituti... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...od at Ferry Farm in [[Stafford County, Virginia|Stafford County]], near [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fre...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...ead.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became an international incident, and help...
51: ... Arnold]] won the [[Battle of Saratoga]] in 1777. After Monmouth, the British concentrated their offen...
58: ...like [[Julius Caesar]] before him or [[Napoleon]] after him—he probably would have been able to ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...gure in [[Virginia]] state politics, helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persu...
38: ...rgely on the strength of his abilities in foreign affairs at a time when [[United_Kingdom_of_Great_Bri...
40: ...ckson]] distinguished himself, was fought 15 days after the treaty was signed — the news not rea...
113: ...e black Americans to the Society's colony in west Africa, [[Liberia]]. When he died on [[June 28]], [[...
115: ...fferent varieties of $5000 bills issued between [[1861]] and [[1946]], and all but three had James Madis... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
21: ...nited States]]. He was the second President born after the signing of the [[United States Declaration...
25: ...llowed his father as governor ([[1825]]-[[1827]]) after a stint in the House of Representatives. Duri...
54: ...ngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest daughter, Mary.
58: ...xpelled from the Whig Party in 1841, a few months after taking office, and the entire cabinet he had i...
67: ...tter declined to offer an opinion on the internal affairs of Rhode Island: "They are questions of muni... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...ction. He was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
9: ... President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died the...
14: ...[Mayor of Philadelphia]]|before=[[Joseph Watson]]|after=[[Benjamin W. Richards]]|years=1828-1829}}
15: ...r the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...r from Pennsylvania]]|before=[[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|years=1831-1833}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...ection]], and was replaced by [[James Buchanan]]. After losing the Democratic nomination, Pierce conti...
22: ... her aristocratic, nervous ways and show her true affection. He was one of the most popular men in New...
29: ...its and graduated in [[1824]] third in his class. After graduation he in [[1826]] entered a [[law scho...
38: After his service in the Senate, Pierce resumed the ...
56: ...odings of evil." For religous reasons he chose to affirm, rather then swear, the presidential [[oath o... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
14: | [[March 4]], [[1857]]–[[March 4]], [[1861]]
50: ...[June 1]], [[1868]]) was the [[15]]th ([[1857]]-[[1861]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
55: ...to whom Buchanan was once engaged died a few days after she broke off the engagement, and Buchanan the...
61: ...853]] to [[1856]], during which time he help to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]] which proposed the purc...
64: ...ved from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[March 4]], [[1861]]. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]])
42: ... and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16th ([[1861]]–[[1865]]) [[President of the United State...
44: ...on. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|se...
48: ...ral government reverted to its customary weakness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative s... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
41: ...he 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June 17]], 1861). On [[August 7]], Grant was appointed a [[brigad...
48: ...paign]] against [[Robert E. Lee]]), Grant was not afraid to order direct assaults or tight sieges agai...
56: ...hampion, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had been quoted after the massive losses at Shiloh, "I can't spare t...
58: After the war, the Congress authorized Grant the new...
64: ...conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whiskey Ring, Grant's [[Secretary of War]]...
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