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22 October 1806 (aged 54–55) London. A Sheraton style chair with rectangular back. Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) [1] was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. [2] Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized ...
Noah Webster's famous dictionary, published on this day in 1828, shaped what we now consider American spelling. But ultimately, the choice of which spellings to adopt is made in the most democratic way possible: by public use and acceptance. In 1828, the United States was still a new and fragile country—far from a world power.
It is a free reference website that offers full-text versions of classic literary works by hundreds of authors. It is also a news aggregator, offering articles from a large collection of periodicals containing over four million articles dating back to 1984. Newly published articles are added to the site daily. [citation needed]
1933 or 1552 or 780. 1806 ( MDCCCVI ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1806th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 806th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1800s ...
Dictionary of National Biography. The Dictionary of National Biography ( DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer . Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal ...
Noah Webster publishes his first English dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, recording distinct American spellings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe completes a preliminary version of his Faust. Nólsoyar Páll completes his anti-Danish Fuglakvæði (Ballad of the Birds), one of the first significant works in the Faroese ...
