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August 3 – The British begin the Second Anglo-Maratha War, against the Scindia Dynasty of Gwalior. August 31 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins as Lewis and a crew of 11 depart on the Ohio River. September 6 – John Dalton, British scientist, begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
Apr 25, 2024 · The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest.
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12 septembre : fondation par les Britanniques de la colonie de Risdon Cove, premier établissement européen en Tasmanie [1]. 14 septembre : les troupes de Lord Lake entrent à Delhi. L’empereur moghol shah Alam II perçoit une pension des Britanniques [2]. 27 septembre : traité d’alliance franco-suisse [3]. Naissances
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1803 – Prudence Crandall, American educator (d. 1890) 1810 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (d. 1871) 1811 – John Humphrey Noyes, American activist, founded the Oneida Community (d. 1886) 1814 – James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (d. 1897) 1820 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician (d. 1891)
He exhibited his masterpiece, "Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830" or rather "Episode of the September Days of 1830 on the Grand Place of Brussels", ( Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels) at the Antwerp Salon in 1834. He was subsequently appointed painter to Leopold, King of the Belgians. At the death of Matthieu-Ignace Van ...
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- Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
- 23 August 1803, Antwerp, Belgium
- Romanticism
During the month of July, 1801: In Brest, the American inventor, Robert Fulton (1765-1815), began testing his torpedo submarine, The Nautilus. On 20 March (29 Ventôse, An IX), Bonaparte had, for the second time, give Fulton a grant of 10,000 Francs in order to fund exhaustive experiments with the Nautilus.
2015 (Friday) 2014 (Thursday) September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 104 days remain until the end of the year.
