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Between 1840 and 1930, about 900,000 French Canadians left Quebec, migrated to the United States, and worked mainly in New England. About half of them returned. About half of them returned. Since the population of Quebec was only 892,061 in 1851, [ citation needed ] that was a massive exodus. 13.6 million Americans claimed to have French ...
First Opium War. The First Opium War ( Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng ), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the ...
Music critic. Conductor. Teacher. Spouse. Clara Schumann. . ( m. 1840) . Robert Schumann [n 1] ( German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the Romantic era. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Schumann was unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make ...
The 1837 season saw the beginning of Kent's dominance of English county cricket which lasted through the 1840s. Mainstays of the Kent team in those years included Alfred Mynn, Fuller Pilch, Nicholas Felix, Ned Wenman and William Hillyer. The team claimed a total of eight Champion County titles between 1837 and 1849.
Described as "one of the most remarkable cricketers of the nineteenth century", Clarke played for Nottingham. He formed the William Clarke's All-England Eleven, a team of touring professionals, in 1846. [45] William Grasett Clarke. 1840–1848. Played in four first-class matches, including in the 1840 University Match .
Railway Mania. Railway Mania was a stock market bubble in the rail transportation industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1840s. [1] It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, speculators invested more money, which further increased the price of railway shares, until the share price collapsed.
Politics portal. v. t. e. The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples [2] or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history to date.
