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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...y, the city was threaten or invaded by several - mostly French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jea...
21: ...l [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from [[Napoleo...
23:
25: ...hek managed to have [[Bras�a]] built, at great cost, by [[1960]]. On April 21st that year, the capit...
35: ..., crosses a former Roman-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...the most powerful women of her time, ruling over most of central Europe.
6: ...f [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles VI]] whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died a...
8: ...of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
15: ...el of Spain (1741-1763), then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [...
17: ...Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808) - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: ...rticularly interested in [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]]'s teachings and submitted pap...
12: ... surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she mu...
15: However, in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at t...
19: ...s, became quite significant as it restricted the possible solutions of [[Fermat's last theorem]]. - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ...4]] first became known as a [[China|Chinese]] [[prostitute]] called Shih Yang. She married in [[1801]...
6: ... was fornication with a female captive at her supposed consent, the sailor was beheaded and the female...
8: ...the rest of his life in a comfortable government position, while Ching Shih died at the age of 60 in [... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ... ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the world.]]
11: ...t]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1808]]).]]
13: ...ch means "red earth"), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion ov...
17: ... an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a w...
20: ...d was removed from the Garden of Eden, making it possible for [[humanity]] to return to Paradise. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
68: *Abolition of the external [[slave trade]] in [[1808]]
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801 - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...ve their northwestern territories (consisting of most of modern-day [[Ohio]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Tenne...
23: ...ith a [[bicameral legislature]]. When the issue arose of how states would be represented in the new Co...
27: ... essays that comprise the Federalist Papers. His most famous passage comes in Federalist No. 51:
31: ...s home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully proposed the first ten [[amendment]]s to the Constitutio...
38: ...he [[U.S. presidential election, 1808|election of 1808]], Madison ran for president in his own right, an... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ... admitted to the bar and commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
24: ...n merchant living abroad. Despite his father's opposition to him having a foreign-born wife, Adams wed...
26: ...d from [[March 4]], [[1803]], until [[June 8]], [[1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elec...
28: ...o [[1817]]. During this time, Adams and his wife lost to illness an infant daughter, born in [[1811]].
30: .... He is sometimes called the "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not ... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
29: ...olumbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. In [[1812]...
33: ... make room for a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hu...
35: ... politics of New York and powerfully influenced those of the nation, and which did more than any other...
39: ..., then gradually abandoned the [[protectionist]] position. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...is father, who became [[Governor of Virginia]] ([[1808]]-[[1811]]), and followed his father as governor ...
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
54: ... or after him. His youngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest ...
58: ...tates Whig Party|Whig Party]] policies and work closely with Whig leaders, particularly [[Henry Clay]]...
69: ...f them will be willing to set an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
40: '''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was the sixteenth...
45: ... Johnson and Mary McDonough on [[December 29]], [[1808]]. At the age of 4 his father died. At the age o...
86: ..."left"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William Denni...
105: ...passage of [[civil rights]] laws and otherwise imposing the will of the United States Congress —... - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...a]] and the [[Atlantic Ocean]], it is the easternmost country of the [[Americas]] and it borders [[Uru...
8: ...peror, [[Pedro II of Brazil|Dom Pedro II]] was deposed and a [[federation|federal]] [[republic]] was ...
17: ...uties or ''C⭡ra dos Deputados'' of 513 seats, whose members are elected by [[proportional representa...
29: Brazil consists of 26 states (''estados'', singular ''estado'') and 1 federal district ('...
41: ... hills and (low) mountains to the south, home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
14: ...n: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[List of state mottos|National motto]]: Unity - Freedom - Justice''</sm...
56: In [[1808]], Sierra Leone became a British [[Crown Colony]]...
69: ... the president, who is elected every five years (most recently in May 2002). He appoints and heads a c...
84: ...Freetown is located. The rest of Sierra Leone is mostly plateau (about 300 m above sea level) covered ...
96: ...on. The most important tribes are the [[Temne]] (mostly in the north) and [[Mende]] (central and south... - Finland (29511 bytes)
51: ...anguage arrived in Finland during the Stone Age, possibly even among the first [[Mesolithic]] settlers...
53: ...13th century AD, if we discount the obcscure and possibly fictious stories of Finnish kings in Scandin...
59: In [[1808]], Finland was conquered by the armies of [[Alexa...
63: ...al Germany]], and "the reds". The reds consisted mostly of propertyless rural and industrial workers w...
65: ...countries. Into the [[19th century]] there was a most obvious language barrier; then during the 19th c... - Spain (36498 bytes)
20: ...uan Carlos I]]<br>[[Jos頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
58: ...re of this period is that of the city of [[Tartessos]]. Beginning in the [[9th century BC]], [[Celtic]...
62: ... for control of the Western Mediterranean. Their most important colony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin na...
68: ...ajan]], [[Hadrian]] and [[Theodosius I]], the philosopher [[Seneca]] and the poets [[Martial]] and [[L...
70: Most of Spain's present languages, religion, and laws... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
65: * [[3rd century BC|200s BC]]: [[Crossbow]] in [[History of China|China]]
70: ...[[Clockwork]] (the [[Antikythera mechanism]]): [[Posidonius]]?
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
118: * [[1609]]: [[Microscope]]: [[Galileo Galilei]]
142: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
158: *[[Ross Bleckner]] ([[1949]]-)
171: *[[Rosa Bonheur]] ([[1822]]-[[1899]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
50: *[[1808]] - U.S. [[slave trade]] with [[Africa]] ends
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
12: ...egular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
21: *[[1808]] - Importation of [[slave]]s into the [[United S...
35: *[[1902]] - The first [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game is played in [[Pasadena, California]...
79: **[[Velvet Divorce]]: [[Czechoslovakia]] is divided into the [[Slovakia|Slovak Re...
108: *[[1752]] - [[Betsy Ross]], American seamstress (d. [[1836]]) - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...ench power rose quickly, [[Conquest|conquering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning wi...
12: ... United Kingdom's industrial economy made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
13: * In most European countries, the importation of the ideal...
20: ...ming independent and mobile artillery units as opposed to the previous tradition of attaching artiller...
26: ...ought at sea, bringing the total for France to almost 3 million combatants.
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