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Hace 9 horas · The East India Company Military Seminary was founded in 1809 at Addiscombe, near Croydon, Surrey, to train young officers for service in the company's armies in India. It was based in Addiscombe Place, an early 18th-century mansion. The government took it over in 1858 and renamed it the Royal Indian Military College.
- 31 December 1600; 422 years ago
Hace 9 horas · Consequently, during heavy rains, overflows would spill untreated sewage directly into the Thames. By the 1850s, nearly all of London's sewage was routinely dumped into the river, resulting in severe pollution and transforming the Thames into an open sewer. The summer of 1858 brought with it a heatwave that raised temperatures above 30 degrees ...
Hace 9 horas · Part of a series on Human history ↑ Prehistory (Stone Age) (Pleistocene epoch) Holocene Timelines Neolithic – Contemporary (10,000 BCE – Present) Age of the human race Recorded history (Common Era) Earliest records Protohistory Proto-writing Ancient Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Axial Age Classical antiquity Late antiquity Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia ...
Hace 9 horas · The American Revolution was part of the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions, an 18th and 19th century revolutionary wave in the Atlantic World. The first shot of the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington and Concord is referred to as the "shot heard 'round the world" due to its historical and global significance. [232]
- 1765 to 1783
Hace 9 horas · 1502 in literature – Shin Maha Thilawuntha 's Yazawin Kyaw. 1503 in literature – Robin Hood and the Potter. 1504 in literature – Jacopo Sannazaro 's Arcadia; Beunans Meriasek. 1505 in literature – Pietro Bembo 's Gli Asolani. 1506 in literature – William Dunbar 's The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis.
Hace 9 horas · Earlier in England in 1958 the term "Pop Art" was used by Lawrence Alloway to describe paintings associated with the consumerism of the post World War II era. This movement rejected Abstract Expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior in favour of art that depicted material consumer culture, advertising, and the iconography of the mass production age.
Hace 9 horas · The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. He reigned officially from 1735 until his abdication in 1796, but retained ultimate power subsequently until ...
