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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...rst to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
47: ...1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [...
57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
179: *[[Douglas Mawson]] - [[Australia]]n explorer of [[Antarct... - 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 [[...
15: ...itions, including the first discovery of the [[Single-leaf Pinyon]]. The standard [[Binomial nomenclat... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
9: ...[[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later...
11: * [[1861]] - The [[University of Washington]] opens in [[S...
45: *[[1470]] - King [[Edward V of England]], one of the two [[Princes in the Tower]] (d....
46: ...s I of England]] and mother of [[William III of England]]
83: *[[1918]] - [[Wilfred Owen]], English poet - Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
11: ...n Sardinia until [[Italy|Italian]] unification in 1861. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...however, she was schooled in [[English language|English]]. She eventually learned to speak [[Italian l...
20: ...y surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding name, ''Windsor''. (In the early [[19...
29: ... replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly objected to the removal of these ladies, whom sh...
69: The Prince Consort died in [[1861]], devastating Victoria, who entered a semi-perma...
71: Victoria began to increasingly rely on a Scottish manservant, [[John Brown (ser... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...he Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fello... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psyc...
15: ... ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a v...
19: ... the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the [[Reform Bill]] of [[18...
30: * ''[[Silas Marner]]'' (1861) - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
21: ...aredness of the Army Medical Department. In April 1861, after the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], she esta...
23: ...t. She also became acquainted with [[Frederick Douglass]] and became an activist for black [[civil rig...
35: ... the age of 83 and spent her remaining years in [[Glen Echo, Maryland]]. She died in 1912 at age 90, a...
49: ...Barton spent the last 15 years of her life in her Glen Echo home, and it served as an early headquarte... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
31: ...]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[infection]]s were common, many o...
35: ...hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently given to the Ni...
39: ...work inspired massive public support throughout England, where she was celebrated and admired as "The ...
65: ...r the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]] in [[1861]], Nightingale's work served as an inspiration f...
67: In [[1869]] she returned to England and, with [[Elizabeth Blackwell]], opened the ... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
10: ...t Battle of Bull Run]] (Manassas), [[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washingt...
22: ...ng that of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and, interestingly enough, [[Buffalo Bill|William F. "Buffalo Bill"... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...'' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an [[United States o...
5: Born in [[Clinton, Iowa]] in 1861, Helen Louise Leonard would become one of the mos... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
51: ...who was not born a [[British subject]]. Interestingly, he is also the first president not of British d...
124: || [[1857]] || [[1861]] || [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]...
128: || [[1861]] || [[1865]] || [[Republican Party (United State...
241: ...ates]] and [[Jimmy Carter]]'s current career as a global [[human rights]] campaigner and best-selling ...
248: *From [[March 4]], [[1861]], to [[January 18]], [[1862]], [[Martin Van Bure... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
24: ...n (new style) calendar date. Also note that the English year began on [[March 25]] ([[Annunciation]] D...
26: ...]] - [[August 25]], [[1789]]) were of [[England|English]] descent. He spent much of his boyhood at Fer...
31: ...gton could not read.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became an international in...
93: ...erson]] wrote, "The moderation and virtue of a single character probably prevented this Revolution fro...
100: ...ated." After the Revolution, Washington told an English friend, "I clearly foresee that nothing but th... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
31: ...icans]], who followed Jefferson and believed strongly in limiting centralized power.
40: ...little to gain, and in the United States, [[New England]] [[Federalists]] [[Hartford Convention|threat...
115: ...fferent varieties of $5000 bills issued between [[1861]] and [[1946]], and all but three had James Madis... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ... as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especia...
60: For two years Tyler struggled with the Whigs, but when he took [[John C. Calh...
150: ...himself a slaveowner his entire life. In February 1861, Tyler re-entered public life to sponsor and chai...
152: ...ed in the provisional [[Confederate Congress]] in 1861, he was elected to the [[Confederate House of Rep...
176: ...inia | before=''(none)''| after=''(none)''| years=1861-1862}} - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
9: ... President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]], when he returned to Philadelphia, and died the...
21: ...anan]]|after=[[Charles Francis Adams]]|years=1856-1861}} - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...ic nomination, Pierce continued his lifelong struggle with [[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Me...
45: ...with four competing contenders—[[Stephen Douglas]], [[William Marcy]], [[James Buchanan]] and [[...
49: ...lity, plus his helpful obscurity and lack of strongly held positions, helped him prevail over Scott, w...
63: ...measure, the handiwork of Senator [[Stephen A. Douglas]], allegedly grew out of his desire to promote ...
65: ...blican Abraham Lincoln would provoke secession in 1861. - 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...
64: ...ved from [[March 4]], [[1857]], to [[March 4]], [[1861]].
72: ... the Senate by Northerners led by [[Stephen A. Douglas]]. Eventually, Congress voted to call a new vot...
82: ...issippi. In the early morning of [[January 9]], [[1861]], South Carolina's batteries opened on the Star ... - 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...
61: ...]'s four-volume ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', he taught himself the law, and was admitt... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
26: ...shments of his administration, including his struggle to preserve [[Reconstruction]], and looked with ...
41: ...he 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June 17]], 1861). On [[August 7]], Grant was appointed a [[brigad...
66: ...ance against malefactors and failed to react strongly even after their guilt was established. He was w...
156: ...ed the first free municipal public library in [[England]]. Grant also visited [[Japan]]. In the Shibak...
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