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Nineteenth-century theatre describes a wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 49 subcategories, out of 49 total. 19th-century rebellions (26 C, 182 P) 19th-century revolutions (19 C, 50 P) 19th-century riots (11 C, 1 P) 19th-century battles (17 C, 2 P) 19th-century coups d'état (10 C, 2 P) 19th-century people by conflict (124 C)
Ireland was part of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which started a population decline that ...
The territory was partially occupied by United States. In the late 19th century, Congress passed the Dawes Act, intended to promote assimilation and extinguish Indian governments and land claims in preparation for the admission of Oklahoma as a state in 1907. After allotment of lands to households, all the Cherokee were considered state and ...
In the 19th century the empire was internally restive and externally threatened by western powers. The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War (1840) led to the Treaty of Nanking (1842), under which Hong Kong was ceded to Britain and importation of opium (produced by British Empire territories) was allowed. Opium usage continued to ...
19th century Carl Friedrich Gauss. Throughout the 19th century mathematics became increasingly abstract. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) epitomizes this trend. [citation needed] He did revolutionary work on functions of complex variables, in geometry, and on the convergence of series, leaving aside his many contributions to science.
History of anatomy in the 19th century. A dissected body, lying prone on a table – one of the series of anatomical paintings made by the 19th Century English painter Charles Landseer. The history of anatomy in the 19th century saw anatomists largely finalise and systematise the descriptive human anatomy of the previous century.
