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Hace 2 días · However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile.
Hace 3 días · 1845–1849: Great Famine in Ireland killed more than 600 000 people out off over 10 million people inhabitating Ireland . Between 1.5–2 million people forced to emigrate: Ireland: 600 000 to over 1500000 that emigrated + 1846: Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of Portugal [citation needed ...
Hace 4 días · 1849: Walter Hunt invents the first repeating rifle to use metallic cartridges (of his own design) and a spring-fed magazine. 1849: James B. Francis invents the Francis turbine. 1849: Walter Hunt invents the Safety pin. 1850s. 1850: William Armstrong invents the hydraulic accumulator.
Hace 5 días · Tired of inaction, Bakunin once more plunged into revolutionary intrigues and, engaging in the Dresden insurrection of May 1849, was arrested. The Saxon authorities turned him over to Austria, where he was incarcerated and then transferred to Russia.
Hace 4 días · Alderman Farncomb (Tallow-chandler), mayor in 1849, was one of the great promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851, that Fair of all Nations which was to bring about universal peace, and wrap the globe in English cotton.
Hace 5 días · By an Act of Parliament passed in 1730, Dept-ford was divided into two parishes, distinguished by the names of St. Nicholas, and St. Paul. The Parish of St. Nicholas, which includes the old town, lies mainly along the river Thames, and the combined parishes have now a population of about 60,000 souls.
Hace 4 días · The resulting Mississippi Convention on Oct. 1, 1849, issued a call to all slave-holding states to send delegates to Nashville, Tenn., in order to form a united front against what was viewed as Northern aggression. Delegates from nine Southern states met in Nashville on June 3, 1850.
