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1 day ago · 1824 Elections (Wikipedia) I first raised the issue of the 1824 bicentennial in a blog from 2016: The Presidential Election of 1824: Lessons for Today September 9, 2016. I was writing about the annual SHEAR conference (Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic), July 21-24, 2016, in New Haven.
4 days ago · By Jonathan L. Stolz. May 18, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. The 10th quadrennial presidential election in 1824 was a political watershed — previous precepts were abandoned and new dictums were established ...
2 days ago · Emperor of Mexico (House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Coat of arms of the Mexican Empire adopted by Maximilian I in 1864. Maximilian, the adventurous second son of Archduke Franz Karl, was invited as part of Napoleon III 's manipulations to take the throne of Mexico, becoming Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
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5 days ago · In 1824, he founded a colony centered on the new city of Victoria. De León oversaw the only empresario grant to attract large numbers of settlers from Mexico rather than the United States. As tensions rose between Anglo-American colonists and the Mexican government, De León forged a neutral path—although he and his family supported local ...
3 days ago · Star of the West. Battle of Fort Sumter. President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. v. t. e. The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.
2 days ago · 1824: Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse invents the bolt-action rifle. 1825: William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet. 1826: John Walker invents the friction match. 1826: James Sharp invents and goes on to manufacture the first practical gas stove. 1828: James Beaumont Neilson develops the hot blast process. 1828: Patrick Bell invents the reaping ...
5 days ago · The National Gallery was founded in 1824 when the British government bought a collection of 38 paintings from the estate of the merchant John Julius Angerstein.
