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20 hours ago · After 1898 direct intervention expanded in Latin America. The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 and annexed Hawaii in 1898. Following the Spanish–American War in 1898, the US added most of Spain's remaining colonies: Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam.
20 hours ago · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
20 hours ago · Research on purchases of property and goods registered in the notarial archive of Agathagellos Ioannidis between 1882 and 1898, right after the annexation, concludes that the overwhelming majority of Thessalian Muslims who became Greek citizens were able to speak and write Greek.
20 hours ago · At the end of February 1798, as he was about to embark on a return mission to Paris, Coigly was arrested carrying to the French Directory a further address from the United Britons. While its suggestion of a mass movement primed for insurrection was scarcely credible, it was deemed sufficient proof of the intention to induce a French invasion.
- 1804; 219 years ago
- 1791; 232 years ago
20 hours ago · Prominent critics such as Matthew Paris in Chronica Majora and Richard of Mapham, the dean of Lincoln, voiced notable concerns at the council. The military orders, especially the Teutonic Order, faced censure for their arrogance, greed, luxurious lifestyles funded by their wealth, and inadequate deployment of forces in the Holy Land.
20 hours ago · From the Fifteenth District, Home Truths, Paris Notebooks: Steven Galloway: 1975 novelist The Cellist of Sarajevo: François-Xavier Garneau: 1809 1866 historian History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year: Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau: 1912 1943 poet, non-fiction, diarist, novelist, short stories
20 hours ago · Summer: Karl Marx moves from Paris to London, where he will spend the remainder of his life. July: The Horsleydown cholera outbreak (Second cholera pandemic of 1849–51) takes place. 31 July: The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair opens, making it London's first post-Reformation Jesuit church.
