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Hace 1 día · Sir Thomas Abney, sheriff of London in 1694 This is a list of sheriffs of the City of London. Pursuant to a royal charter of Henry I c. 1131, the liverymen of the City elected two sheriffs of "London and Middlesex" upon payment of £300 per annum to the Crown. This practice continued until 1889, when the Local Government Act 1888 came into force. Thereafter a High Sheriff of Middlesex and a ...
Hace 3 días · t. e. 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. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because Mexico refused to ...
Hace 3 días · American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 1] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, and later on by the Confederate states of America, Republic of Texas, Mexico and the United States of America against various American Indian tribes in North America.
Hace 5 días · Canada–United States relations. Canada's long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its history, economy, and culture. [1] The two countries consider themselves among the "closest [of] allies". [2] They share the longest border (8,891 km (5,525 mi)) between any two nations in the world, [3] and also ...
Hace 5 días · The Qing Dynasty's military power weakened during the 19th century, and faced with international pressure, massive rebellions and defeats in wars, the dynasty declined after the mid-19th century. European powers controlled parts of Oceania, with French New Caledonia from 1853 and French Polynesia from 1889; the Germans established colonies in New Guinea in 1884, and Samoa in 1900.
Hace 5 días · At the start of the 19th century, there were virtually no public libraries in the sense in which we now understand the term i.e. libraries provided from public funds and freely accessible to all. Only one important library in Britain, namely Chetham's Library in Manchester, was fully and freely accessible to the public. [120]
Hace 2 días · United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
