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The uprising. Revolutionary war medal of the May Uprising in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, 1849, obverse, showing the street fighting. The reverse of this medal shows the names of the leaders of the provisional government Tzschirner, Heubner and Todt, and the dates of the uprising. At first the Saxon town councillors attempted to persuade ...
- 3–9 May 1849
- Dresden, Saxony
- Government victory
1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1839th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 839th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of ...
1904 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (b. 1839) 1906 – Gabriel Dumont, Canadian Métis leader (b. 1837) 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (b. 1840) 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (b. 1847) 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (b. 1892)
March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland. March 23 – The Boston Morning Post first records the use of "OK". August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio. September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
Famous Deaths. May 3 Ferdinando Paer, Italian opera composer (Agnese), and conductor (Paris Opéra-Italien, 1812-23), dies at 67. May 13 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, founded Ashkenazic community (1815), dies. May 13 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal (Archbishop of Lyon, 1802-39), diplomat, art collector (Musée Fesch), and uncle of Napoleon, dies at 76.
The origin of the name Maine is unclear. One theory is that it was named after the French province of Maine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main" or "Main Land", "Meyne" or "Mainland", which served to distinguish the bulk of the state from its numerous islands. [1] Whatever the origin, the name was fixed for ...
A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during May 1832, painted by Benjamin Haydon. The Days of May was a period of significant social unrest and political tension in the United Kingdom in May 1832, after the Tories blocked the Third Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which aimed to extend parliamentary representation to the middle and working classes as well as the newly industrialised ...
