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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
41: *[[Leopold Ackermann|Ackermann, Leopold]] (1771-1831) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
16: ...a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's ...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
12: ...and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men to familiarize herself with these...
17: ...anks of great [[mathematicians]]. She became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academ...
19: ...described in a letter to Gauss, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[...
21: ...mber theory]] and [[elasticity theory]]. One significant item is the concept of the [[Sophie Germain p... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) <small>([[August 12]], [[1831]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]))</small> - [[May ...
7: ... (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
15: ...tent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called [[New Age]] thi...
59: ...by [[Manly P. Hall]]), [http://correiorosacruz.netfirms.com/blavatsky.htm]
67: ...s a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, wi... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive moti...
16: ==Classification by motive power==
21: ...entury]]) were powered by [[steam engine|steam]], first by burning [[wood]], later [[coal]] or [[oil]]...
23: ...lar service in the world, but John Bull, built in 1831, is currently the oldest operable steam locomotiv... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
12: | date of death=[[July 4]], [[1831]]
18: ...], [[1758]] – [[July 4]], [[1831]]) was the fifth ([[1817]]–[[1825]]) [[President of the U...
24: ...alist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in [[1790]], an advocate ...
38: ...ropean Power." Some 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
42: ...t failure]] and [[tuberculosis]] on [[July 4]], [[1831]]; 55 years after the [[Declaration of Independen... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
18: ...]. He was the son of President [[John Adams]] and First Lady [[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith]].
43: |align="right"|'''OFFICE'''||align="left"|'''NAME'''||align="left"|'''TE...
77: ...th the 22nd Congress, serving from [[March 4]], [[1831]], until his death. He was chairman of the Commit...
78: ...humb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
84: ...tly reinterred in the [http://www.ufpc.org United First Parish Church]. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ... lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the origi...
22: ...When he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed him with a sword, g...
26: ...ave been "tough as old hickory" wood on the battlefield, which gave him his nickname. The war, and par...
32: ...lection, 1828|second attempt]] in [[1828]] as the first nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United Stat...
34: ...John Adams. Jackson's election represented a significant break from that past. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...c D. Barnard]] and served from [[December 13]], [[1831]] to [[March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to b...
15: ...ict of Pennsylvania]]|before=?|after=?|years=1829-1831}}
16: ...[Isaac D. Barnard]]|after=[[Samuel McKean]]|years=1831-1833}}
20: ...ed States]]|before=[[John Tyler]]|after=[[Millard Fillmore]]| years=[[March 4]], [[1845]] – [[Ma... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
13: | '''Term of Office:'''
37: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
50: ...[[resident]] of [[Pennsylvania]] to hold that [[office]]. He has been criticized for failing to preve...
53: ...hairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomin...
57: ...c Party|Democrat]] to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willia... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
62: ...e British colony known as [[British Guiana]] in [[1831]].
105: ...est]]s and most of Guyana's mineral deposits, and finally the larger interior highlands consisting mos...
107: ...along the coast. There are two rainy seasons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-No...
112: ...ustries threaten the government's already tenuous fiscal position and dim prospects for the future. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
404: *[[Alexandre Falguière]] ([[1831]]-[[1900]]) - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention...
20: ...tion and Protest'' arguing that states can [[nullification|nullify]] certain federal laws
28: *[[1831]] - [[Nat Turner]]'s revolt
29: *[[1831]] - ''[[The Liberator]]'' begins publication
30: *[[1831]] - [[Cyrus McCormick]] invents the [[reaper]] - Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War (11837 bytes)
1: This is a timeline of significant events leading to the [[American Civil War]]....
12: ...ion and Protest]]'' outlines [[nullification|nullification doctrine]]. Calhoun demands that the North ...
17: |valign=center|'''[[1831]]'''
23: | + The Compromise Tariff of 1833 ends the [[Nullification crisis]].<br>
61: | + [[George Fitzhugh]]'s ''The Pro-Slavery Argument'' is publish... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: [[Image:treimann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried...
4: ...holic Church]]. The title itself has been used officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church si...
13: ! width="18%" | Pontificate
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) ...
167: ! width="18%" | Pontificate - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
5: ...the second son, [[Ludvig Nobel|Ludvig Emmanuel]] (1831-1888), by whom it was greatly enlarged, and Alfre...
7: ...being regarded as scandalous and blasphemous. The first surviving edition (bilingual Swedish-[[Esperan...
14: ...s followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of [[potassium nitrate]], wood-...
21: ...nd from the exploitation of the [[Baky|Baku]] oil-fields, in the development of which he and his broth...
27: ...n an ideal direction" and [[Nobel Peace Prize|the fifth]] is to be given to the person or society that... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
4: ...public imagination as a symbol of [[freedom]] and figures prominently in [[African American history]].
15: *people who helped slaves find the railroad were "agents"
25: ...ing in the [[1820]]s. Coincidently, the nation's first commercial railroad, the east-west [[Baltimore...
27: ...ilroad'' is alleged to have originated with the [[1831]] escape of Tice Davids from a Kentucky slaveowne...
31: ...y escaped to Canada. Fugitive slaves were a significant presence in the then underpopulated Canadian ...
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