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Hace 3 días · 19th century. An 1835 illustration of power loom weaving, as part of the Industrial Revolution. The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval.
Hace 4 días · At the beginning of 1810, new juntas appeared across Spanish America when the Central Junta fell to the French invasion.
Hace 1 día · 1810s Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse, in 1819. 1810: Nicolas Appert invents the canning process for food. 1810: Abraham-Louis Breguet creates the first wristwatch. 1811: Friedrich Koenig invents the first powered printing press, which was also the first to use a cylinder.
Hace 5 días · Castlereagh might well have felt it his duty to bribe the Irish Parliament into extinction, to outspokenly justify the government’s repressive measures of the late 1810s, and to pay £250,000 in Secret Service money to the spies and informers who dug up dirt on Caroline.
Hace 4 días · From the 1810s small plots with common rights were sold, often to Cambridge tradesmen, with the prospect of acquiring potential building sites when Chesterton was inclosed.
Hace 5 días · Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
Hace 2 días · Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780226768861; 368pp.; Price: £31.50. Over 40 years ago, Robert Darnton proposed to evaluate the Enlightenment from its authors’ perspectives. After all, he observed, they were ‘men of flesh and blood, who wanted to ...
