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- Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
58: *[[1811]] - [[Battle of Tippecanoe]]
59: *[[1811]] - [[First Bank of the United States]] expires
66: ...]] - [[Hartford Convention]]; [[New England]] proposes [[secession]]. - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: ...in [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to cross the [[Antarctic Circle]].
15: * [[1899]] - The [[United States]] takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]...
20: ...] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polish]] city of [...
21: ...ration camp]] as [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces close in.
25: ...al more than $2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. - Earthquake (13859 bytes)
1: ...uent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called [[intraplate earthquake]]...
4: ... majority of them are minor and cause no damage(those less than 5 on ritcher scale).
5: ...t of the earthquakes shaking is the dominant and most widespread cause of damage.
11: ...point at which the fault slip was initiated. The position of the focus is known as the "[[hypocenter]]...
13: Earthquakes, especially those that occur beneath oceans or seas, can give rise... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
18: *[[Joseph Black]], (1728-1799), chemist
19: *[[Carl Bosch]], (1872-1940), German chemist
22: *[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]], (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
57: *[[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer]]
82: *[[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist - Wendell Phillips (1286 bytes)
2: ...nd in the same year, he opened a law practice in Boston. After being converted to the abolitionist cau... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ... cabinet of President [[Franklin Pierce]]. He is most famous for serving as the only [[President]] of ...
8: ...vis's youth, his family moved several times, in [[1811]] to [[St. Mary Parish, Louisiana]], and in [[181...
23: ...ver, Davis's efforts proved unsuccessful, and he lost the election. The next year, he traveled around ...
42: ...dministration expired in [[1857]]. The president lost the Democratic nomination, which went instead to...
44: ...the Union on [[October 11]] in [[Faneuil Hall]], Boston, and returned to the Senate soon after. - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
15: ...s reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applie...
20: ...ow known as [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] ("True Cross") on Holy Thursday [[March 4]]. By establishing ...
22: ...gy is convincingly argued against by historian [[Ross Hassig]] in his book ''Time, History, and Belief...
27: ...e Tlaxcaltecas attacked his troops, but Spanish crossbows, broadswords, battle axes, horses, war dogs ...
33: ...; in Europe, only Constantinople was larger. The most common estimates put the population at around 60... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...sh; The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
35: ...ndash; [[Ferdinand Marcos]]'s widow, [[Imelda Marcos]], goes on trial for [[bribery]], [[embezzlement]...
38: *[[1996]] – In [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Erik Menendez]] and [[Ly...
46: *[[1811]] - [[Napoleon II of France]], (d. [[1832]])
65: *[[1915]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]]) - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
61: *[[Yehoshua Bar-Hillel]], (Israel, [[1915]]-[[1975]])
76: *[[Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand]] (France, [[1822]] - ...
111: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Republic of Dubrovnik]]...
163: *[[Paul Cohen|Paul Joseph Cohen]] (USA, [[1934]] - )
179: *[[Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham]] (UK, [[1842]] - [[1928]... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
17: *[[Paul Oswald Ahnert]] ([[Germany]], [[1897]] – [[198...
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[230 BC]])
45: *[[Joseph Ashbrook]] ([[United States|USA]], [[April 4]]...
54: *[[Oskar Backlund]] ([[Sweden]], [[1846]] – [[191...
85: *[[Rudjer Josip Boscovich|Ruđer Josip Bošković]] ([[Dalmatia]], [[1711]] &n... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
58: ... two future presidents for the U.S., and perhaps most consequentially, the war marked the end of Europ...
84: ...Treaty of Paris]], and was continuing to supply those American Indians in the [[Northwest Territory]] ...
86: .... Although this policy of [[impressment]] was supposed to reclaim only British subjects, between 1806 ...
90: ...stated the embargo with Great Britain and moved closer to declaring war.{{fn|3}}
92: ... against Great Britain for a variety of reasons, mostly related to the interference of the Royal Navy ... - Iodine (11416 bytes)
106: ...olspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#ffff99" | '''Most stable isotopes'''
139: ...eactive of the [[halogen]]s, and the most electropositive metallic halogen. Iodine is primarily used i...
156: *[[Nitrogen triiodide]] is an explosive, too unstable to be used commercially, but is ...
160: ...too much sulfuric acid and cloud of purple vapor rose. Curtois noted that the vapor crystallized on co...
162: ...esearch. He also gave some of the substance to [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]] ([[1778]]–[[1850]]), ... - Silicon (13233 bytes)
1: ...i | name=silicon | left=[[aluminium]] | right=[[phosphorus]] | above=[[carbon|C]] | below=[[germanium|...
40: ...|β<sup>-</sup>]] | de=0.221 | pn=32 | ps=[[phosphorus|P]] }}
44: ...etter semiconductor/dielectric interfaces than almost all other material combinations.
47: ...ts with [[halogen]]s and dilute [[alkali]]s, but most [[acid]]s (except for a combination of [[nitric ...
53: *[[Bronze]] - Most bronze produced is an [[alloy]] of [[copper]] an... - Dhole (1697 bytes)
12: ...s | author=[[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date=[[1811]]}}
15: ...[species]] in the [[genus]] ''Cuon''. Dholes are mostly found in forest habitats in south [[Asia]], bu... - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
3: ... elements have been known since time immemorial. Most have been discovered in historic times.
28: *[[1669]] - [[Phosphorus]] discovered by [[Hening Brand]]
35: *[[1755]] - [[Magnesium]] discovered by [[Joseph Black]].
39: **[[Oxygen]] discovered by [[Joseph Priestley]]. From the [[Greek language|Greek]...
44: *[[1782]] - [[Tellurium]] discovered by [[Franz-Joseph M?von Reichenstein]]. From [[Latin]] word ''Te... - Samuel F. B. Morse (8859 bytes)
3: ...ainter]] of portraits and historic scenes; he is most famous for inventing the electric [[telegraph]] ...
9: ...orse later accompanied Allston to [[Europe]] in [[1811]].
13: ...se over the telegraph, which he would ultimately lose.) Morse [[prototype]]d an [[electromagnetic]] [[...
21: ...aught painting. Gale was aware of the works of [[Joseph Henry]] on electromagnetic relays. Based on th...
26: ... ([[Maine]]) became a partner with Morse (and proposed a bill in Congress, which didn't pass, for a $3... - William Henry Harrison (11790 bytes)
18: ...general]] in the subsequent [[War of 1812]], his most notable contribution was a victory at the [[Batt...
25: ...which brought the [[Northwest Indian War]] to a close. Lieutenant Harrison was one of the signers of t...
27: ...nor of the newly formed [[Indiana Territory]], a post he held for 12 years, until [[1813]].
29: ...[confederation]] (see "[[Tecumseh's War]]"). In [[1811]], Harrison was authorized to march against the c...
31: ==Post-war political career== - Louisa Adams (3687 bytes)
5: ..., but her father was [[United States|American]]--Joshua Johnson, of [[Maryland]]--and he served as Uni...
7: ...ome in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], their house in Boston, and a political home in Washington, DC.
9: ...in him, Louisa had to make a forty-day journey across war-ravaged Europe by coach in winter; roving ba...
11: ... contributed to her reputation as an outstanding hostess.
13: ...ion a gracious occasion although her husband had lost his bid for re-election and partisan feeling sti... - Anna Harrison (3660 bytes)
7: ...ott (1804), Benjamin (1806), Mary (1809), Carter (1811), Anna (1813), and James (died as an infant).
13: ...accompany him and act as hostess until Anna's proposed arrival in May. Half a dozen other relatives ha...
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