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22 hours ago · United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
22 hours ago · John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.
22 hours ago · A small but dedicated group, under leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, agitated for abolition in the mid-19th century. John Brown became an advocate and militia leader in attempting to end slavery by force of arms. In the Civil War, immediate emancipation became a war goal for the Union in 1861 and was fully achieved ...
22 hours ago · c. 400 – c. 200 BC [34] [35] Toluca, in the State of Mexico, has been continuously inhabited at least since the 8th century BC. [36] [dubious – discuss] The oldest sedentary remains ( Calixtlahuaca) date from around the 600 BC to 400 BC. [citation needed] Papantla / El Tajín. Totonac people.
22 hours ago · 19th century 1800s and 1810s Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, 1819. In an 1809 incident known as the Boyd massacre, about 66 passengers and crew of the Boyd were killed and eaten by Maori on the Whangaroa peninsula, in the north of New Zealand.
22 hours ago · A century later, on 15 August 1612, The Globe, an East India Company merchantman bearing a letter from King James I, arrived in "the Road of Syam". "By the end of the 19th century, Siam had become so enshrined in geographical nomenclature that it was believed that by this name and no other would it continue to be known and styled."
22 hours ago · v. t. e. Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket, with one player ...
