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Duncan MacLeod Timeline:1792-1891

On June 18, on the battlefield of Waterloo (present-day Belgium), Duncan carries a sick soldier on his back and meets Immortal Darius on his way.


2011 Governor General's Awards

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891

Berlinite

It was first described in 1868 for an occurrence in the Västanå iron mine, Scania, Sweden and named for Nils Johan Berlin (1812–1891) of Lund University.

Chakradharpur

With the opening of Goilkera-Jharsuguda section the main line route of Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) was completed and the official function for the opening ceremony of main line from Asansol to Nagpur, presided by the Viceroy of India, Lord Lansdowne was held at Chakradharpur station on 3 March 1891.

Charles Abdy Marcon

In 1891 he took over from William Henry Charsley as Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford, with the result that it was renamed Marcon's Hall.

Christian Karl Reisig

Christian Karl Reisig (name sometimes given as Karl Christian Reisig; 17 November 1792 – 17 January 1829) was a German philologist and linguist who was a native of Weißensee.

Christian Social Union

Christian Social Union (U.S.), a Social Gospel membership association established in the United States in April 1891

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

He was the eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget (April 5, 1735 - August 6, 1792) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (July 2, 1734 - March 20, 1811).

Clementine Deymann

In 1885 and in 1891 Father Clementine was elected definitor of the Franciscan province of the Sacred Heart; in 1886 he was made superior of the boys' orphanage at Watsonville, California.

Cockx

Jan Cockx (1891–1976), Belgian painter perhaps best known for landscapes, still life and harbor scenes

Daniel Fowle

Daniel Gould Fowle (1831–1891), governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, 1889–1891

Dannite H. Mays

He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1891, 1895, and 1897, serving as speaker in 1897.

Edwin Long

Long married a daughter of Dr. William Aiton, by whom he left a family, of whom a son, Maurice Long, was killed in a railway accident at Burgos in Spain on 23 September 1891.

Empress of China

RMS Empress of China, three Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners, one from 1891 to 1912, the other two briefly named Empress of China in 1921

Eric England

Eric Gordon England (1891–1976), British aviator, racing driver and engineer

Errett

Russell Errett (1817–1891), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Escola Politécnica da UFRJ

The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third most ancient engineering school of the world and the most ancient of America, with the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME), being one of the firsts institutions of higher education in Brazil.

Henry Andrews Bumstead

After receiving his BA degree in 1891, he remained in Baltimore for two years as an assistant in the physics laboratory, taking as much graduate work as time would allow.

Henshaws Society for Blind People

In 1891 workshops for the blind opened at the corner of Deansgate and Wood Street; the building cost about £9,000 and provided new workshops, formerly in Bloom Street.

Hotham Park House

The house, originally called Chapel House after a nearby chapel, was built in 1792 by Sir Richard Hotham, the founder of Bognor, as his main residence.

Hudson Downtown Historic District

Located along the Tiffin River, Hudson served as an important trading center from 1854–1891.

Jersey Eastern Railway

The official opening of Gorey station was on 25 May 1891, to coincide with Queen Victoria’s birthday.

John H. Gear

He was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House for the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1891.

Jonathan H. Rowell

Rowell was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck (December 22, 1891 – June 1, 1951) was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Kalemegdan Park

During March 1891, the pathways were cut through, and trees were planted; in 1903 the Little Staircase was built, based on the project of Jelisaveta Načić, the first woman architect in Serbia, while the Big Staircase, designed by architect Aleksandar Krstic, was built in 1928.

Konstantin Romanov

Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891–1918), son of the above Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich

Marquis James

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – November 19, 1955) was an American journalist and author, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

McKell

William McKell GCMG (1891–1985), Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, 12th Governor-General of Australia

Mersey Chambers

It fronts St. Nicholas' churchyard, which was laid out as a public garden in 1891 in memory of James Harrison, a partner in the company.

Methyl salicylate

The compound methyl salicylate was first isolated (from the plant Gaultheria procumbens) in 1843 by the French chemist Auguste André Thomas Cahours (1813-1891), who identified it as an ester of salicylic acid and methanol.

Mori Koben

Mori and his colleagues reached Pohnpei in 1891, where one of his colleagues got his wife pregnant and had a set of triplets disembarked to manage the company's branch store.

Nathaniel Morse

When a post office opened in 1891, the name was standardised as a single word; the Tophouse locality is located near State Highway 63.

Norgren

Nelson Norgren (1891–1974) was an American football and basketball player and coach.

Philip Carpenter

Philip Herbert Carpenter (1852–1891), expert on the morphology of the echinoderms

Puget Island, Washington

The island was named for Peter Puget, a lieutenant in the Vancouver Expedition of exploration, which first mapped the island in 1792.

Rancho Aguas Frias

In 1859, Orville C. Pratt (1819-1891) purchased of the Rancho Aguas Frias.

Richard Whiting

Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938), writer of popular songs, father of singer Margaret Whiting and actress Barbara Whiting Smith

Robert H. M. Davidson

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1891).

Samuel Rose

Rose edited in 1792 an edition of the Reports of Cases by Sir John Comyns, and in 1800 Sir John Comyns's work Digest of the Laws of England, in six volumes, of which the first was dedicated to Lord Thurlow.

Short Beach

From 1891 until she died in 1930, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox lived on the Short Beach coast overlooking Granite Bay.

Sibour

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, (1792–1857) Catholic Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest

Sir Robert Wilmot, 1st Baronet

Robert Wilmot was the elder son of Robert Wilmot (died 1738) of Osmaston Hall, and his younger brother was the judge John Eardley Wilmot (1709-1792).

St. Andrew's United Church

Westminster Presbyterian was the first established on the site in 1891, it merged with Grosvenor Street Presbyterian in 1921 when the latter church's building was demolished as part of a plan to extend Bay Street.

The Admiral's Caravan

The Admiral's Caravan is a novel by Charles E. Carryl, written in 1891 and published by the Century Company of New York in 1892.

Thomas Randolph

Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875), served in the Virginia House of Delegates

Tim Hendryx

Timothy Green Hendryx (January 31, 1891 – August 14, 1957) was a utility outfielder in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between the 1911 and 1921 seasons.

Walton, Somerset

There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.

William Albright

William F. Albright (1891–1971), evangelical Methodist archaeologist, biblical authority, linguist and expert on ceramics

William Charles John Pitcher

He also designed costumes for Jane Annie at the Savoy (1893) and for the Olympia, London spectacles Nero (1889) and Venice (1891).

William H. Brawley

He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, until February 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a position on the bench.


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