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unusual facts about United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1818



Alexander of Russia

Alexander II of Russia (1818 – 1881), also known as Alexander the Liberator

Amalie Dietrich

She was employed as a naturalist by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy (1818 - 1885), a wealthy shipping magnate who at the time was establishing the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.

Andrew Agnew

Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet (1818–1892), his son, British MP for Wigtownshire 1856–1868

Anglo-Chinese College

Ying Wa College, Hong Kong (founded as Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca in 1818)

Ankaran

In 1818 a book was published in Regensburg by Heinrich Hoppe and Friederich Hornschuh praising the local climate as being effective for recovery from injuries and illnesses.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Basevi

Abramo Basevi (1818-1885), Italian musicologist, associated with the music journal L'Armonia

Bernard Barton

His chief works are The Convict's Appeal published in 1818, a protest against the death penalty and general severity of the criminal code, and Household Verses published 1845, which came to the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of £100 a year.

Binz

From 1818 to 4 September 2011 Binz belonged, apart from a short interruption (1952–1955 Kreis Putbus) to the county of Rügen.

Bolnisi

In 1818 the colony Katharinenfeld was founded in Bolnisi by 95 German colonist families from Swabia.

Broder Knudtzon

Knudtzon was born in Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag; he was the sixth and youngest child of Hans Carl Knudtzon (1751–1823), a merchant and burgomaster, and Karen Knudtzon (née Müller, 1752–1818).

Carl Reinhardt

Carl August Reinhardt (also referred to as Karl Reinhardt; born 25. April 1818 in Leipzig, Germany; died 11. August 1877 in Radebeul, Germany) was a German author, painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist.

Charles May

Charles A. May (1818–1864), American military officer and hero of the Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Charles Noel

Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (1818–1881), aka Viscount Campden, British peer and Whig politician

Charles William King

Charles William King (5 September 1818 – 25 March 1888) was a British Victorian writer and collector of gems.

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

In 1811 he moved to Valognes (Manche), pursuing botanical field research and the nascent field of geology, and searching out ancient written materials that cast light on local history, while he undertook, from 1814 onwards, to compile a pioneering inventory of some four or five hundred churches of La Manche (Noell 2005); some of these materials were published as Voyage archéologique dans la Manche (1818–1820).

Doricha

Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818), Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington National Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

Franz Michael Permaneder

He studied theology and jurisprudence at Landshut and in 1818 was ordained to the priesthood at Regensburg.

Frog battery

Leopoldo Nobili built a frog battery in 1818 out of complete frog legs which he called a frog pile.

Guernésiais

Like Métivier, Tam Lenfestey (1818–1885) published poetry in Guernsey newspapers and in book form.

Habersham County, Georgia

It was created on December 15, 1818, and named for Colonel Joseph Habersham.

Harvey River

It is presumed to have been named by Governor James Stirling after Rear Admiral Sir John Harvey, who in 1818 was Commander in Chief of the West Indies Station while Stirling had served in that region.

Henriette Amelie de Nerha

Henriette Amelie de Nerha (Brussels, Austrian Netherlands, 1754 - Amsterdam, 19 June 1818), was a Dutch memoir writer, known for her relationship with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

Richard Walpole (5 December 1728–18 August 1798), who married Margaret Vanneck (before 1742—9 May 1818) on 22 November 1758, and had issue.

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.

Hurdman

William H. Hurdman (born 1818), Canadian entrepreneur and community leader

James Thomas Molesworth

In the year 1818, while Molesworth was stationed in Solapur along with his fellow interpreter Thomas Candy, the two started compiling a glossary of Marathi words.

Jeremiah Boyle

Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (May 22, 1818 – July 28, 1871) was a successful lawyer and noted abolitionist.

Johann Eccarius

Johann Georg Eccarius (23 August 1818, Friedrichroda - 4 March 1889) was a Thuringian tailor and labour activist.

Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum

During the early 1870s he travelled to England, where he learned techniques of pelvic surgery under Thomas Spencer Wells (1818–1897).

John Telemachus Johnson

He was elected in 1818 as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as a Jackson Democrat to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825).

Joseph Ferdinand Damberger

After completing his earlier studies in the public schools of his native town, he pursued the study of law at Landshut, then studied theology at Salzburg, Landshut, and Munich, and was ordained a priest in 1818.

Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux

Louis Auzoux obtained a medical degree in 1818 and was appointed to the surgical department of the Hotel-Dieu with Guillaume Dupuytren.

Maipú Department, Mendoza

The department was created in 1858 and named in memory of the Battle of Maipú, which took place in Chile, 1818 during the South American Wars of Independence.

Margaret Burke Sheridan

Born in Castlebar, Co Mayo, Ireland, she was known as Maggie from Mayo and is regarded as Ireland's second prima donna (after Catherine Hayes (1818-1861)).

Morrill Wyman

Another brother, Edward Wyman (1818 - 1899), was a prominent merchant and the captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.

New York's 1st congressional district special election, 1804

The election was held at the same time as the elections for the 9th Congress and were combined into a single election, with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes going to the 9th Congress and the candidate with the second largest number of votes going to the 8th Congress.

North Glengarry, Ontario

Kenyon, which was part of Charlottenburgh Township until 1798, was named for British judge and politician Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, and Lochiel, which was part of Lancaster Township until 1818, was named for the Lochiels of Clan Cameron.

Pinicola

Pinicola Vieillot, 1808 (Aves, Fringillidae) makes the name Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 a junior homonym and therefore unavailable for a genus of Xyelidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera).

Platner

Ernst Platner (1744–1818), German anthropologist, physician, and philosopher

Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet

His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red.

Steel engraving

When Perkins moved to London in 1818, the technique was adapted in 1820 by Charles Warren and especially by Charles Heath (1785–1848) for Thomas Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, which contained the first published plates engraved on steel.

Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery

William Gilham (1818-1872): VMI instructor, Confederate Army colonel

Sutton House, London

At the turn of the 18th century, Hackney was renowned for its many schools, and Sutton House contained a boys' school, with headmaster Dr Burnet, which was attended in 1818 by the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1789

The 1st United States Congress had convened at Federal Hall in New York City on March 4, 1789, without any members from the State of New York, and without a quorum in either Senate or House.

The 1789 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held on March 3 and 4, 1789, to elect 6 U.S. Representatives to represent the State of New York in the 1st United States Congress.

Uriel Crocker

Uriel Crocker (September 12, 1796 – July 19, 1887) was a public-spirited Boston citizen, head of the Crocker & Brewster publishing house during its 58-year existence (1818-1876), and actively involved in other enterprises including railroads.

Wilhelm Herchenbach

Wilhelm Herchenbach (* November 13, 1818 in Neunkirchen; † December 14, 1889 in Düsseldorf) was a 19th-century German author.

William Boyce

William Waters Boyce (1818–1890), U.S. Confederate congressional delegate


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