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Hace 1 día · After months of tensions between the two states, the Royal Navy launched an expedition in June 1840, which ultimately defeated the Chinese using technologically superior ships and weapons by August 1842.
Hace 2 días · The Mexican–American War, [a] also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, [b] was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.
Hace 4 días · Although a Carlist military victory was more or less unthinkable, liberal hegemony was not complete until 1840. Nevertheless, Dr Lawrence’s discussion of the gradual liberal reforms of the 1830s (pp. 67-69) further emphasises that the nature of the state would be decided in Madrid, rather than in the battlefields of the rural north ...
Hace 5 días · Economy, 1839–1900. Until 1841 York lost population by migration but for the rest of the 19th century, excepting the eighties, it gained. This change coincides with the coming of the railways and has led many commentators to connect the two facts.
Hace 3 días · Chapters 2 and 3 situate eighteenth-century lone motherhood in its social, economic and cultural worlds. Chapter 2 explores the solvent effect on family and community support networks of high migration, mobility and mortality in London. Combined with insecure employment opportunities, this created economic and sexual vulnerability for women.
Hace 5 días · William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, thereby becoming the first Whig president. By early 1838, Clay had emerged as the front-runner due to his support in the South and his spirited opposition to Van Buren's Independent Treasury.
Hace 3 días · The execution of François Benjamin Courvoisier, a Swiss valet, found guilty of the murder of his master, Lord William Russell, took place at Newgate in 1840. Lord William, who was in his seventy-third year, lived alone in his house, in Norfolk Street, Park Lane, his establishment consisting of two women-servants and Courvoisier, a Swiss valet.
