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unusual facts about Treaty of London, 1839



1856 in the United States

January 26 – Puget Sound War/Yakima WarBattle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

Adolf Pfister

In 1838 he obtained civic rights in Württemberg, and as a priest of the Diocese of Rottenburg, he was pastor first in Dotternhausen; 31 January 1839, at Rosawangen; 11 May 1841, at Risstissen; from 1851 also school inspector in Ehingen.

Advocates Library

Librarian Samuel Halkett began an ambitious catalogue, based on the rules of John Winter Jones for the British Museum catalogue of 1839, but with extensive biographical information on authors.

Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara

In 1839 Espartero carefully opened up negotiations with Maroto and the principal Carlist chiefs of the Basque provinces.

Balyan family

Krikor died in 1831 after serving the empire during the reigns of four sultans, Abdul Hamid I (1774–1787), Selim III (1789–1807), Mustafa IV (1807–1808)), and Mahmud II (1808–1839).

Boaden

James Boaden (1762–1839), English biographer, dramatist, and journalist

Celle Castle

As a result Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves had several interior alterations made in 1839 and 1840.

Charles D. Coffin

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis and served from December 20, 1837, to March 3, 1839.

Christopher Lieven

Lieven died suddenly on January 10, 1839 at Rome as he escorted the future Alexander II of Russia on his Grand Tour.

Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

The Middle Dutch Church or Middle Collegiate Church, which was built from 1836–1839, was located on Lafayette Place, now Lafayette Street, near La Grange Terrace.

Don Procopio

The words were a reduced version of I pretendenti delusi (1811) by Giuseppe Mosca (1772-1839).

Edward Foss

He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1822, was a member of the council of the Camden Society from 1850 to 1853, and from 1865 to 1870, a member of the Royal Society of Literature from 1837, and on the council of the Royal Literary Fund, and until 1839 secretary to the Society of Guardians of Trade.

Elisha Haley

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1839).

Elizabeth Dickens

Concerned about his father's financial problems, in 1839 Charles Dickens rented a cottage for his parents far from London, and, as he thought, far from temptation, at Alphington in Devon.

Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (1999), fictionalised made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.

Feuerland

In 1837 August Borsig established a factory at Chausseestraße 1–3, to be followed in 1839 by Friedrich Adolf Pflug at Chausseestraße 7–9.

Fitzmaurice River

It was first charted in 1839 by European explorers aboard the HMS Beagle under the command of John Lort Stokes.

Francis Blair

Frank S. Blair (1839–1899), Virginia lawyer and Attorney General of Virginia

François-Xavier Garneau

The book was originally written as a response to the Durham report, which claimed that French Canadian culture was stagnant and that it would be best served through Anglophone assimilation.

Georg Wissowa

He is remembered today for re-edition of Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, an encyclopedia of classical studies initially started by August Friedrich Pauly (1796–1845) in 1839.

George Grennell, Jr.

Grennell was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-six Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1839).

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg (July 8, 1839 - May 27, 1899), Austrian historian, was born in Vienna, and in 1865 became professor of history at the university of Lemberg.

Henry Crocker

Henry H. Crocker (1839–1913), Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Holland Park Avenue

Of the 19th century residential developments of the area one of the most architecturally interesting is The Royal Crescent, designed in 1839, and located just north of Holland Park Avenue.

James Lynch

James D. Lynch (1839–1872), first African-American Secretary of State of Mississippi

János Garay

He returned to Pest in 1839, when he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Jean-Pierre Vibert

When the pioneering rose hybridizer Jacques-Louis Descemet (1761-1839) was forced to leave his nursery after invasion by the British following the Battle of Waterloo, Vibert absorbed Descemet's nursery stock, 10,000 rose seedlings, and hybridizing records.

John Donnelly

John C. Donnelly (1839–1895), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

Karol Antoniewicz

This, as well as the advice of his spiritual director, Father Frederic Rinn, S.J., induced him to seek admission into the novitiate of the Jesuits at Stara Wieś in September, 1839, where he took the solemn vows on 12 September 1841.

La chute de la maison Usher

La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

La Citoyenne

That same year, activist Maria Martin (1839-1910) launched Le Journal des femmes and on December 9, 1897, high-profile actress and journalist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936) continued the cause and opened another feminist newspaper called La Fronde.

Laura Redden Searing

Laura Redden Searing (born February 9, 1839 in Somerset County, Maryland) was a deaf poet and journalist.

Louis Boyer

Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Canadian merchant and political figure from Quebec

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

Omnism

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions".

Ottoman ship Mahmudiye

She was constructed by the naval architect Mehmet Kalfa and the naval engineer Mehmet Efendi on the order of Mahmud II (reigned between 1808–1839) at Tersane-i Amire, the Imperial Shipyard, on the Golden Horn in Constantinople.

Pascual Echagüe

With the support of Juan Antonio Lavalleja and the members of the White Party, he crossed the Uruguay river in order to attack Rivera, but the latter defeated him at the Battle of Cagancha, on 29 December 1839, in San José Department, Uruguay near the Cagancha creek.

Piper aduncum

It was introduced into the profession of medicine in the United States and Europe by a Liverpool physician in 1839 as a styptic and astringent for wounds.

Purnell and Sons

The Company was founded by Charles Dando Purnell in 1839 as a small family printers with small print shops in Radstock, Midsomer Norton and Paulton.

Rice Rees

Rice Rees (31 March 1804 – 20 May 1839) was a Welsh cleric and historian.

Richard Bingham

Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1764–1839), British MP for St Albans, Irish representative peer

Rowland Blennerhassett

Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet (1839–1909), Irish MP for Galway Borough 1865–1874 and Kerry 1880–1885

Russian classical music

A group that called itself "The Mighty Five", headed by Balakirev (1837–1910) and including Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Mussorgsky (1839–81), Borodin (1833–87) and César Cui (1835–1918), proclaimed its purpose to compose and popularize Russian national traditions in classical music.

Samuel Armstrong

Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) - Hawaiian-born military officer and educator

Samuel Tredwell Sawyer

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839) and was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.

San Cristóbal Vermilion Flycatcher

The taxon was discovered during Charles Darwin's Galapagos voyage in 1835 and described as full species Pyrocephalus dubius by John Gould in 1839.

Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet

He inherited Newhailes, and the Lordship and Barony of Hailes in 1839, on the death of his aunt, Miss Christian Dalrymple (when he also assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple).

Sven Lampa

Sven Lampa ( 17 November 1839, Skaraborg – 2 December 1914, Lidingön) was a Swedish entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Tissandier

Albert Tissandier (1839–1906), Gaston's brother, French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist

William Phelps

William Walter Phelps (1839–1894), U.S. Representative from New Jersey


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