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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...
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]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
32: *[[William Abbot|Abbot, William]], (1798-1843), British actor
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: ...hard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
34: ...rich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843) - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
16: ... Victoria became [[heir presumptive|heiress-presumptive]] to the throne. Since the law at that time ma...
25: ...hildless, Ernest Augustus was also the heir-presumptive to the British throne.
27: ... the [[Whig]] Party, which had been in power, except for brief intervals, since [[1830]]. The Whig Pri...
37: ...tributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King of Hanover. These conspiracy theorie...
39: ... Eight more children would be born during the exceptionally happy marriage between Victoria and Prince... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...of railroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919) and his wife, [[Anne Witcher Keene]]. Her s... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
5: ... standards of living they were accustomed to, prompting them in 1832 to go to [[Arequipa]], to claim h...
9: ...s in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843). - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...]–[[1883]]) was the self-given name, from [[1843]], of an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionis...
10: ...tts]] to join a [[utopia]]n community, the Northampton Association of Education and Industry. When the...
26: ...w.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=Sojourner%20 Truth Burial site] - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
11: ...36]], Annabella ([[Lady Anne Blunt]]) born [[22 September]] [[1837]] and Ralph Gordon born [[2 July]] ...
15: During a nine-month period in 1842-1843, Ada translated for Babbage Italian mathematician...
23: ...as to whether Lovelace understood deeply the concepts behind programming Babbage's engine, or was more... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
14: ...asylums to treat the insane according to the precepts of moral treatment.
16: ...s presentation, the representative from Little Compton announced that Simmons had died. This led to th...
20: ...ivil War she moved to [[Washington, DC]] and attempted to set up a nursing service for soldiers. Due t... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
78: ...s1st.jpg|thumb|Adams posed for this photograph in 1843, the first taken of a US President]]
121: ...es Leonard Hodges]]| after=''(none)''| years=1833-1843}}
122: ... Barron Calhoun]]| after=[[Horace Mann]]| years=[[1843]]-[[1848]]}} - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
3: ...aption><font size="+1">'''John Tyler'''</font></caption>
36: *Robert Tyler ([[September 9]], [[1816]] - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). H...
44: ...First Lady of the United States]] but died on [[September 10]], [[1842]]. John spent two years as a wi...
46: ...David Gardiner Tyler ([[July 12]], [[1846]] - [[September 5]], [[1927]]).
47: ...John Alexander Tyler ([[April 7]], [[1848]] - [[September 1]], [[1883]]). - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: ...<font size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
26: ...served in the House of Representatives and was Comptroller of New York. It was thought that the obscu...
37: ...ore to the Presidency in July 1850 brought an abrupt political shift in the administration. Taylor's ...
53: Each measure obtained a majority, and by September 20, President Fillmore had signed them into ...
62: ...Republican Party]]; but, instead, in [[1856]] accepted the nomination for President of the [[Know-Noth... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
22: ...ica. In addition, Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck."
29: ...w school]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [...
40: ...infancy and Frank Robert Pierce ([[1839]]–[[1843]]) at the age of four from [[epidemic typhus]]. B...
45: ...etermine the nominee, a [[party platform]] was adopted, opposing any further "agitation" over the slav...
47: ...his views on slavery, which allowed him to be acceptable to all factions. He also had served in the Me... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
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...
82: ...nd supplies to [[Fort Sumter]]. However, the attempt to maintain secrecy failed. Newspapers published ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
46: ...e fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his man...
59: ...93 p704 quoting Lincoln; Talk--> He served as a captain in a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] d...
70: *[[Robert Todd Lincoln]] : b. [[August 1]], [[1843]] in Springfield, Illinois - d. [[July 26]], [[19...
87: ...ered its opinion upholding the tax exemption, accepting Lincoln's arguments.
93: ...the Buchanan administration's push for the [[Lecompton Constitution]] which would have admitted Kansas... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
48: ...to the four succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1843]] to [[March 3]], [[1853]]). He was chairman of ...
109: ...te and House entered into hot debate. Thomas attempted to move into the War office, for which Stanton ...
137: ...ens Arnold]]|after=[[Brookins Campbell]]| years=[[1843]] – [[1853]]}} - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
3: ...><font size="+1">'''Ulysses S. Grant'''</font></caption>
24: ...stration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
26: ...d for not taking a strong stance against the corruption, and not acting to stop it. More recent treatm...
32: ...od for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class of 39. At the academy,...
41: ... fall of [[Battle of Fort Sumter|Fort Sumter]], Captain Grant arrived in [[Springfield, Illinois]], wi... - 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... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
107: The law of [[July 26]], [[1843]] reinforced bilingualism by introducing the teac... - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
78: ...er]] as the financial backer of a March 2004 attempt to topple Obiang organized by [[Simon Mann]].
113: ...th America ([[Treaty of El Pardo]]). From 1827 to 1843, Britain established a base on the island to comb...
164: *[http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/eqg.html Stanford University - Afric...
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