Franz Xaver Chwatal was born
Beginning of the composer’s lifetime.
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Argentine War of Independence
The Argentine War of Independence was a set of military events from 1810 to 1825 which resulted in the consolidation of Argentina as an independent country from Spanish rule. The historiographical term encompasses battle...
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The Black Cat was published
"The Black Cat" is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. In the story, an unnamed narrator, who suffers with alcoholism...
Ignaz Pleyel died
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel was an Austrian composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. He grew up in Austria, and was educated there; in his mid-twenties he moved to France, and was based in France for...
Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States. It followed the 1845 American annexa...
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· Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot / Carl Nebel Immediate image source: http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A22/item-kendall-nebel.html Originally published in George Wilkins Kendall & Carl Nebel: The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of all the Principal Conflicts, New York: D. Appleton; Philadelphia: George Appleton [Paris: Plon Brothers], 1851. · Public domain
Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the la...
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· Hans van der Maarel Previously unpublished. Provided by author to me for uploading on his behalf. · CC BY-SA 4.0
John James Audubon died
John James Audubon was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornithologist. His combined interests in painting and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record of all the...
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States. The South sa...
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· Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g02088.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. · Public domain
Through the Looking-Glass was published
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. It is the sequel to...
Franz Xaver Chwatal died
End of the composer’s lifetime.