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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
101: *[[Matthew Flinders]], (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate [[Australia]] and [[Tas...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]] - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...ent of her Austrian dominions, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: ...hess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
14: ...chess Marie Caroline (1740-1741). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the title [[List of rulers of Austria|Arc...
24: ...ily]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Caroline (1752-1814), married [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|HM Ki...
37: ...ted from her people. Her focus changed from attempting to regain Silesia, to maintaining the peace. ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...briefly by a relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at th...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...athered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Achieve...
23: ...or several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College of W...
35: ...er of [[American exceptionalism]] (see also [[exceptionalism]]).
67: *[[Embargo Act of 1807]], an attempt to force respect for U.S. [[neutrality]] by endin...
125: ...amilton's, was the most impressible, the most receptive, mind of his time in America. The range of his... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
40: ...atened secession]] if the war was not ended. In [[1814]], the [[Treaty of Ghent]] ended the war. The [[B...
55: ...'''[[Elbridge Gerry]]'''||align="left"|1813–1814
61: ..."|'''[[James Monroe]]'''||align="left"|1811–1814
65: ...''[[Albert Gallatin]]'''||align="left"|1809–1814
67: ...gn="left"|'''[[George Campbell]]'''||align="left"|1814 - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
30: ...cretary of State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both...
38: ...e wake of the British [[man-of-war]]." Monroe accepted Adams's advice. Not only must [[Latin America]]...
42: ...ed in [[Oak Hill]] until Elizabeth's death on [[September 23]], [[1830]]. Upon Elizabeth's death, Monr...
114: ...[[April 2]], [[1811]] – [[September 30]], [[1814]];<br>[[February 28]], [[1815]] – [[March 4...
115: ..., Jr.]] | after=[[William H. Crawford]] | years=[[1814]]–[[1815]]}} - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
28: ...ion which negotiated the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in [[1814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] fro...
114: ...am Short]]| after=[[James A. Bayard]]| years=1809-1814}} - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
5: ...r|Minister]] to [[Russia]]. Dallas returned in [[1814]] and practiced law in [[New York, New York|New Y... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
53: ...ennsylvania State House of Representatives from [[1814]] to [[1815]]. He was elected to the Seventeenth...
57: ...], and resigned on [[March 5]], [[1845]], to accept a Cabinet portfolio. He was chairman of the Comm...
66: ...his appointments and persuading the people to accept constitutional law as the Supreme Court interpret...
72: ...ly, Congress voted to call a new vote on the Lecompton constitution, a move which infuriated Southerne...
78: ...e appeared on no southern ballot. Rather than accept a Republican administration, the southern "fire-e... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
4: ...d text, the ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' (a Buddhist scripture), was printed in China in [[868]] A.D. The tec...
8: ... invented the printing press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is the [[T...
12: ...[[13th century]]) in commercial [[scriptorium|scriptoria]], where [[scribe]]s wrote them out by hand. ...
14: ...raries to sully their valuable handcopied manuscripts. Similar resistance was later encountered in muc...
18: ...h merchants who printed texts with the Hebrew script. After the [[reconquista]] in the 1490s, the pres... - Australia (39438 bytes)
56: ...dopted. In 1824 the British Admiralty finally accepted that the continent should be known officially a...
65: ...hat they called [[New Holland]], but made no attempt at settlement. In 1770 [[James Cook]] was the fir...
67: ...n Australia was also founded "free" but later accepted transported convicts due to an acute labour sho...
73: ...sh country until [[World War II]], and did not adopt the Statute until 1942. The shock of Britain's de...
103: ...[[Australian states and territories|states]], except Queensland, have their own [[bicameral]] [[Parlia... - Canada (35540 bytes)
19: ...|English]] is the majority language elsewhere except in certain communities and in [[Nunavut]], where ...
94: ...4. The [[Treaty of Ghent]] was signed in December 1814. It was only after the French and Napoleonic wars...
96: ...with the [[Act of Union (1840)]] in a doomed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. Once the U.S....
98: ...880]] Canada included all of its present area except for [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], which joined i...
123: ...kon]] in 1947. Coastal British Columbia is an exception: it enjoys a temperate climate with much milde... - Germany (46412 bytes)
66: ...d the [[Hanseatic League]]. In [[1530]], the attempt of the [[Protestant Reformation]] of Catholicism ...
68: ===Restoration and revolution (1814-1871)===
71: ...'s fall, the [[Congress of Vienna]] convened in [[1814]] in order to restructure Europe. In Germany, the...
73: ... power, rejected crown and constitution. This prompted violent rollbacks by the monarchs, and the demi...
75: ...lm I]] and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Ott... - Guyana (12153 bytes)
62: ...th century]] and were finally ceded the area in [[1814]]. The three became a single British colony known...
126: ... It is so similar that Guyana is included and accepted as a Caribbean Nation. Only its geographical lo...
140: <CAPTION><font size="+1">'''Holidays'''</font></caption> - Nepal (22444 bytes)
60: ...[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], captured Kathmandu. In [[1814]], Nepal fought the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] with t...
62: ...acterised by extreme corruption bordering on [[kleptocracy]].
66: ... turning the gun on himself. His [[suicide]] attempt was not immediately successful, however, and alth...
76: ...ini]], [[Mahakali]], [[Mechi]], [[Narayani]], [[Rapti]], [[Sagarmatha]], [[Seti]]
113: ... its landlocked geographic location, and its susceptibility to natural disaster. The international com... - Spain (36498 bytes)
48: ...]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] t...
83: ...ut was quickly returned to the Spanish Crown, except [[Rosellon]].
89: ...ependence|War of Independence]] ([[1808]]–[[1814]]), a series of revolts and armed conflicts betwe...
95: ...nish Morocco]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]] was attempted. A period of dictatorial rule ([[1923]]–[...
97: ...s politically and economically isolated and was kept out of the [[United Nations]] until [[1955]], whe... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
46: ... "The Delaware State," and in 1792 that entity adopted its first constitution, declaring itself to be ...
48: ...h]]. The [[Big August Quarterly]] which began in 1814 is still celebrated and is the oldest such cultur...
54: Delaware's fourth and current constitution was adopted in [[1897]] and provides for executive, judicia...
104: ...hodist]] (27% of the total state population), [[Baptist]] (9%), [[Pentecostal]] & [[Presbyterian]] & [...
181: ...etween [[New Jersey]] and [[Pennsylvania]], and emptying into [[Delaware Bay]], which separates New Je... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
221: *[[Louis Buvelot]] ([[1814]]-[[1888]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
191: *[[Adolphe Sax]], (1814-1894) — [[saxophone]]
211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]]
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