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unusual facts about United States House election, 1816



A New Way to Pay Old Debts

(It was praised by Thomas Jefferson.) Edmund Kean's version of Sir Giles, which debuted in 1816, was in particular a tremendous popular success, and drove the play's reputation through the remainder of the century.

Abdallah bin Alawi

Abdallah bin Alawi was the Sultan (?Shirazi) of and on Anjouan island (in the Comoros) from 1816 to 1832, and then again from 1833 to his death in 1836.

Antonio Rinaldo

Antonio Rinaldo (Tremona, 1816 – Tremona, 27 September, 1875) was an Italian-Swiss painter, painting mainly of genre, but also of religious subjects.

Archibald S. Clarke

Clarke was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter B. Porter and served from December 2, 1816, to March 3, 1817.

Arthur Annesley

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (1744–1816), British peer, succeeded as 8th Viscount Valentia

Benito Salas

Benito Salas Vargas (died 1816), Colombian patriot who fought in the Spanish reconquest of New Granada

Benjamin Ignatius Hayes

John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), noted physician and Hayes' brother-in-law

Biotite

Biotite was named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.

Carl Christian Rafn

After attending the Cathedral School in Odense (Odense Katedralskole), he entered the University of Copenhagen where he earned his law degree and graduated (1816).

Charles Beck

He taught physical education classes with a curriculum modeled after Jahn's system, and translated Jahn's 1816 work Deutsche Turnkunst into English as Treatise on Gymnasticks, taken chiefly from the German of F. L. Jahn.

Charles Gardiner

The Earldom of Blessington was also revived, in 1816 for Luke's son Charles.

Dzierżoniów

From 1816–1945 Reichenbach contained the district office for Landkreis Reichenbach.

Edward J. Bonin

Bonin was elected in 1952 as a Republican to the 83rd United States Congress, defeating incumbent Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 in a re-match against Flood.

Elijah Brigham

Brigham was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816.

Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases

However that may be, he infringed the British regulations in such a way as to lead to his expulsion by the governor, Sir Hudson Lowe (November, 1816).

François Debret

Restoration of several theaters and buildings of the École des beaux-arts (1822-1832), set in the old musée des monuments français, founded in 1795 in the former Couvent des Petits Augustins, and closed by Louis XVIII in 1816.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (8 October 1750, Veilsdorf bei Hildburghausen - 30 March 1816, Gotha) was a German sculptor.

Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya

Annada Mangal (1816)- Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal exhibited the Tales of Biddyah and Sunder, and to which was added the Memoirs of Rajah Pratapaditya.

Harry P. O'Neill

O'Neill was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952, when redistricting forced him into an election with fellow incumbent Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.

History of Baden-Württemberg

The new king, William I (reigned 1816–1864), at once took up the constitutional question and, after much discussion, granted a new constitution in September 1819.

History of Nagpur

After Raghoji II's death in 1816, his son Parsaji was deposed and murdered by Mudhoji II Bhonsale.

Hot air engine

It is likely that Robert Stirling's air engine of 1818, which incorporated his innovative Economiser (patented in 1816) was the first air engine put to practical work.

Indian Museum

Out of one hundred seventy four items donated to the Museum till 1816, Nathaniel Wallich donated forty-two botanical specimens.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

Isidor Barndt

Archpriest Isidor Barndt (1816-1891), a poet and world traveler from Neisse, Germany, a town in the former state of Silesia, now Nysa, Poland, promoted reunionism and wrote about similarities in faiths in order to overcome splits between Protestants and Catholics in late 19th century Germany.

Iso Fidia

The choice of Athens for the press launch was connected to the car's new name, Fidia, which was the name (commonly spelled "Phidias" by anglophone classicists) of the artist who some 24 centuries earlier had supervised creation of the friezes which originally decorated the Parthenon (and which in 1816 turned up in the British Museum, following their controversial removal in 1802 by Lord Elgin).

James Thornton

James Johnston Thornton (1816–?), judge, land developer, and quartermaster of the Union Army

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

In Paris, Itard was a student of distinguished physician René Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (in 1816).

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (August 30, 1745, Erfurt – August 29, 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

John Charles Felix Rossi

In 1816 he was one of the experts questioned by a select committee of the House of Commons enquiring into whether the government should purchase the sculptures from the Parthenon then in the possession of Lord Elgin.

John Glenn Beall, Jr.

He served as minority floor leader beginning in 1963, until his 1968 election as a Republican to the 91st Congress.

John Glynn

Glynn married, on 21 July 1763, Susanna Margaret, third daughter of Sir John Oglander of Nunwell in the Isle of Wight; she was born 1 September 1744, and died at Catherine Place, Bath, 20 May 1816.

Joseph Caldwell

He was the first president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holding the office from 1804 until 1812, and from 1816 until his death in 1835.

Julien-Désiré Schmaltz

On 17 June 1816, Schmaltz departed for Saint-Louis, Senegal aboard the frigate Méduse to take up his position as Governor of Senegal, which would be handed over by the British on their arrival, under the command of Thomas Brereton.

Kingdom of Württemberg

He was succeeded by his son, William I (reigned 1816–1864), who after much discussion, granted a new constitution in September 1819.

Ludwig Worman

Before his death, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress.

Pavel Katenin

Disappointed by Zhukovsky's mellifluent translation of Bürger's Lenore, Katenin brought out his own version of the ballad, whose title was Russified as Olga (1816).

Perizoma

Zerynthia Curtis, 1830 (non Ochsenheimer, 1816: preoccupied)

Robert J. Corbett

He was elected as a Republican to the 76th United States Congress in 1938, but was unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940.

Schenkl

Maurus von Schenkl (1749–1816), German Benedictine theologian and canon law jurist

Signoret

Victor Antoine Signoret (1816-1889), a French pharmacologist, physician and entomologist

Su Shun

Sushun (肅順; 1816–1861), style name Yuting (雨亭), Qing Dynasty noble and regent

Supreme Court of Indiana

In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court.

The Airs of Palestine

The poem titled The Airs of Palestine was first published by John Pierpont (1785–1866) in 1816 (Baltimore: B. Edes; various reprints).

William Bourne Oliver Peabody

Peabody was born in Exeter, New Hampshire to Judge Oliver Peabody, graduated from Harvard College in 1816, and subsequently served as an assistant instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1817.

William Gull

Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet (1816–1890), English physician and Governor of Guy's Hospital, London, and Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria

William Horwood Stuart

William H. Stuart was born in Harrow, London, in 1857 to William Stuart M.A. (1816-1896), who later served as Vicar of Mundon, Essex (1862-1889), and Rector of Hazeleigh, Essex (1889-1896).

Wukari Federation

The competition takes place at the Nwonyo lake, said to have been discovered in 1816 by the founder of Ibi, Buba Wurbo, and the first public festival was held during the reign of Abgumanu II (1903–1915).


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