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Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...
1893 – Thomas Edison builds a motion-picture studio, dubbed the "Black Maria" by his staff. May 9, 1893 – In America, Thomas Edison holds the first public exhibition of films shot using his Kinetograph at the Brooklyn Institute. Only one person at a time could use his viewing machine, the Kinetoscope. January 7, 1894 – Dickson and William ...
19th century (disambiguation) The 19th century of the Common Era began on 1 January 1801 and ended on 31 December 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar. 19th century or Nineteenth century may also refer to: 19th century BC. The Nineteenth Century (periodical), a British monthly literary magazine.
Romanticism emerged in the early 19th century as a vibrant period in the arts, influenced by the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. It marked a departure from classicism, embracing Orientalism, tragic anti-heroes, wild landscapes, and themes from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This era saw a debate between the proponents of line ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 44 subcategories, out of 44 total. 19th-century rebellions (27 C, 189 P) 19th-century revolutions (19 C, 52 P) 19th-century riots (11 C, 1 P) 19th-century battles (19 C, 1 P) 19th-century people by conflict (125 C)
The 19th century in science saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, [1] which soon replaced the older term of (natural) philosopher. Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin (alongside the independent research of Alfred Russel Wallace ), who in ...
The campaigns were also changed by a general enlargement of the voting franchise—the states began removing or reducing property and tax qualifications for suffrage and by the early 19th century the great majority of free adult white males could vote ( Rhode Island refused until a serious rebellion took place in 1844 ).
