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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ... these men felled during the bloody Battle of Antietam]]
3: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
5: === [[1860s]] ===
6: ====1860–1865====
7: ...as-1970-1860.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1860]]
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
3: {| {{prettytable}}
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region i... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
12: ...[[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...ast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas'...
19: ...ealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological...
23: ...ll balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: '''Elizabeth Garrett Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 Dec...
5: ...r to their examinations; but in the end the [[Society of Apothecaries]] allowed her to enter for the L...
7: ...into the New hospital for women, and there Dr Garrett worked for over twenty years. In 1870 she obtai...
9: ...which was opened to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Angli... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
17: ...ejected the marriage proposal of politician and poet [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]], ...
19: ...bert]], a brilliant politician who had been [[Secretary at War]] ([[1845]] – [[1846|46]]), a pos...
25: ...c.edu/nsa/nightingale.html] in Upper [[Harley Street]], London, a position she held until October [[18...
33: ... She sent many letters to Herbert, to facilitate better medical care.
35: ...h waterproof hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently gi... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
5: ...gh there were some adaptations with extra top baskets which could be removed when the bees filled them...
7: ...o squeeze out the honey. Because of this harvest method, they typically provided more [[beeswax]] but ...
14: ... some extent in [[Greece]] and [[Italy]]. They sometimes were used singly, but more often stacked in r...
17: In northern and western [[Europe]], baskets made of coils of [[Poaceae|grass]] or straw, cal...
22: ...opening their nest. This was done by inserting a metal container of burning sulphur into the gum, an a... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... considered the longest river in the world, but whether the Nile is actually longer than [[South Ameri...
20: ...m equatorial East Africa, and the Blue Nile, from Ethiopia. Both branches formed on the western flank...
24: [[Lake Victoria]], which lies between [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] is con...
30: ...u; the rest of the year the great rivers draining Ethiopia to the Nile (Sobat, Blue Nile, and Atbara) ...
36: ...tary is the [[Atbara River]], which originates in Ethiopia north of Lake Tana, and is approximately 80... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
25: ...come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from the [[Netherlands]]. Martin's father was Abraham van Buren ...
27: ...ity|New York]], where he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawy...
33: ... Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]].
39: ...suffrage]]. His course in the Senate was not altogether consistent, though in this respect he is not t...
43: ...rmation as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] notwithstanding the "corrupt bargai... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
29: ... on [[April 6]]. The [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congre...
33: ...ried twice, firstly to [[Letitia Christian Tyler|Letitia Christian]] on [[March 29]], [[1813]]. They h...
36: ...ecember 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady of...
38: *Letitia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[Dec... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
38: | [[Harriet Lane]] (niece)
53: ...[April 23]], [[1791]] to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear. He moved to Mercersburg with his parents...
57: ...signed on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Committee on F...
59: ... the northern boundary in the western U.S. No Secretary of State has become President since James Buch...
66: ...pt constitutional law as the Supreme Court interpreted it. The Court was considering the legality of r... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...2]], [[1809]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Hon...
44: ...nto federal territories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nat...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh...
48: ...ar measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...d land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the [[Sangamon River... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
44: ...ves|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the nineteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
46: ...d a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United States Republica...
48: ...ied in Malone. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
20: ...of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]]</td></tr>
29: ...publican Party|Republican]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election o...
46: ... Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used the veto far more often than any President up to that tim...
50: ...s they held by Government grant, forcing them to return 81,000,000 acres (328,000 km²). He also s...
52: ...ing elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" He often opposed the Republican-controlled ... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...ecent excavations reveal a cattle-[[herding]] society of peoples living in the region as early as [[60...
14: ... works) was one of the main agricultural breadbaskets of the ancient world. There is evidence of ancie...
16: ... with devising the world's earliest known [[alphabet]], [[decimal system]] [http://www.math.buffalo.ed...
25: * [[2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
34: ...icago.org/exhibit/ships/], [http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/navy.htm]) - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ...ion]] by either natural or artificial means, has retained its physical form. This can be achieved by e...
11: ==Etymology==
12: ...ient Greek historians record that the Persians sometimes mummified their kings and nobility in wax, th...
16: ... placed at his/her final resting place through a set of [[Egyptian burial rituals and protocol|rituals...
31: ...aced into tombs. The incision was covered with a metal plate bearing the [[Eye of Horus]] (wedjat) whi... - California (63989 bytes)
45: .../waisgate?WAISdocID=06487414661+1+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
81: ... numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
98: ... political organization with bands, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms...
101: ... institutions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harb...
105: California was poorly settled until modern public health eliminated the end... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
44: ... late [[seventeenth century]], several permanent settlements had taken hold in the Carolina territory,...
46: ...ille]] in the east to [[Bethania, North Carolina|Bethania]] (northwest of [[Winston-Salem, North Carol...
48: ...ate. Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dead of battlefield wounds, disease an...
50: ...h the creation of the [[Research Triangle Park]] between [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] and [[Dur...
58: ...]], a Democrat. Its two U.S. senators are [[Elizabeth Dole]] and [[Richard Burr]], both Republicans. - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...n Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundame...
52: ... an ongoing civic pride and economic competition between Hartford and New Haven, which stems back to t...
54: ...flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. ''See: [[List of Conne...
56: ...he green may stand a small white church, a town meeting hall, a tavern and several colonial houses. Fo...
65: ...ions and their major cultural centers as each competes for tourists, new residents, and internal state...
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