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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
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]]
8: *[[1860]] - [[Pony Express]] begins
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region i...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
84: *[[Jane Addams|Addams, Jane]], (1860-1935), [[social work]]er - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...f the leading writers of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are w...
8: ...emy Bentham]] and was the leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a tr...
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Lif...
12: ... They honeymooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand C...
15: ...nt pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes ste... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...ally she studied anatomy privately at the London Hospital, and with some of the professors at [[St And...
7: ...spital for children; but the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her princ...
9: ...(in Hunter Street, WC) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree of Lond...
14: ... in London -- this is the modern name of the New hospital mentioned above. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...re equally likely to function as [[cooks]] or [[prostitutes]]. Nightingale was particularly concerned...
13: ...1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun...
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal ==
17: ... nursing, Nightingale continued to reject his proposal.
19: ...tracted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitatin... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
5: ...hive with [[honeycomb|comb]]. The comb is often cross-attached and cannot be moved without destroying ...
14: ...ked in rows to provide some shade, at least for those not on top. Keepers could smoke one end to drive...
22: ...in "bee yards" or apiaries. Sometimes sticks or crossed sticks were placed under a board cover to give...
27: ...dified National Hive. The Langstroth hive is the most common worldwide.
30: ...th [[honey]] in the upper left and [[pollen]] in most of the rest of the cells]] - Nile (13738 bytes)
8: ...ile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (Αιγυπτ&omicron...
12: ...ins the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of ...
30: ...ue Nile and White Nile join to form "the Nile." Most of the water carried by the Nile originates from...
32: ...trans.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Composite image|Composite]] satellite image of the Nile (see also the [[...
40: ...Great Bend of the Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt.... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...ee world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
14: .... Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but none h...
21: ... majority, the President and Vice President are chosen by the [[United States House of Representatives...
25: ...(United States)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to ...
29: ...[[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is tradit... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|En...
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.
43: ...rnal improvements and declined to support the proposal for a Panama Congress. As chairman of the judic...
49: ... officers had refused to associate. He did not oppose Jackson in the matter of removals from office, b... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
52: *Pearl Tyler ([[June 20]], [[1860]] - [[June 30]], [[1947]]).
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... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
55: ...]. Rumors and speculation that the two had a [[homosexual]] relationship began at the time and have pe...
61: ... help to draft the [[Ostend Manifesto]] which proposed the purchase of Cuba under the threat of force.
76: ...e Federal Government reached a stalemate. Bitter hostility between Northern and Southern members preva...
78: Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in [[1860]] that the Democratic Party split. The southern w...
82: ...r of the West. The unarmed ship was caught in a cross-fire. Receiving no assistance from Fort Sumter, ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...nto federal territories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nat...
48: ...ing the [[Homestead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the...
59: ...poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. <!--Vidal _United States_ c1993 p704 quoting ...
61: ...the state of Illinois, and became steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in th...
63: Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Sprin... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...d a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United States Republica... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (w...
34: ...ie County, New York]] in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned ...
36: ...minded Republicans in the New York legislature. Roosevelt admired Cleveland's stubborn nature.
40: ... who claimed he fathered her child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved...
46: ...ension bills to [[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Afri...
14: ...ent in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (kn...
16: ...matical formularizations]], in the form of the [[Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri]]. An awareness ...
30: * [[2600 BC|2600 BCE]] - [[Pyramid of Djoser]], world's earliest known large-scale stone bui...
36: * [[1900 BC|1860 BCE]] - possible [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]] ([[Twelfth... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ...ned its physical form. This can be achieved by exposing the body to extreme draught or cold, lack of [...
4: ... specific purpose of preservation, particularly those in [[ancient Egypt]]. Egyptians believed the bod...
16: ...ation was made so that the bodies would not decompose in the afterlife. The mummified individual was p...
29: ...a [[chisel]] and inserting a special hook up the nostrils and into the skull.
49: ... How was the "[[Legend of Osiris and Isis|Myth of Osiris]]" tied to mummification ? - California (63989 bytes)
11: LargestCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
15: PostalAbbreviation = CA |
64: Fossil = [[Smilodon|Saber-toothed cat]] |
89: ...ost populous state in the U.S.]], as well as the most physically diverse, with the highest and the low...
91: ...lifornia|San Diego]], [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
13: PostalAbbreviation = NC |
42: ...County is named for her. The demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of [[Roanoke Island]], remains one of th...
48: ...tonville]], a futile attempt by Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston to slow Union Gen. Sherman's advance ...
90: ...hian Mountains|Appalachian]] system, extending almost from the mouth of the [[Saint Lawrence River]] t...
92: ...feet above sea level; the Piedmont encompassing those areas between 400 and 1,500 feet; and the Mounta... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = CT |
36: ...S.)|New England]] region, as well as the southernmost state in New England and one of the wealthiest s...
47: ...incorporated cities and towns across the state. Most cities are coterminal with their namesake towns ...
49: ...ors are [[Christopher J. Dodd]] (Democrat) and [[Joseph I. Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut current...
56: ...nd farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Connecticut]]. Connecticut's ru...
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