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5 days ago · 34. 16 June 1817. An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain, in manner therein mentioned. Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1817.
2 days ago · 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle. 1818: Marc Isambard Brunel invents the tunnelling shield.
1 day ago · From 1721 until 1762, the Russian Empire was ruled by the House of Romanov; its matrilineal branch of patrilineal German descent, the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, ruled from 1762 until 1917.
3 days ago · Over the next 30 years, the number of convicts being transported from Britain rose exponentially. For example, between 1801 and 1820 the number grew sixfold, from 403 per year to 2675. By 1817 Britain’s Treasury and Home Office had become critical of transportation as a method of deterring crime.
4 days ago · A local witness before the 1817 Select Committee on the Poor Laws argued that the chief hindrances to the cultivation of extra or waste lands 'proceed from the tithe system, and the taxes that affect the cultivation; the acreable taxes are the same on the poor land as on the rich land.
5 days ago · Suggs’ unsigned contract, available on FAMU’s website, is a three-year, $750,000 deal ($250,000 annually) with incentives based on securing game guarantees, external fundraising, and ticket ...
2 days ago · The last new civil parish was All Saints, Poplar (1,158 a.), in 1817. (fn. 15) There remained three hamlets totalling 830 a. (335.9 ha.) in the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney: Mile End Old Town (677 a.), Mile End New Town (42 a.), and Ratcliff (111 a.).
