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	1857 [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
		Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses.
		Events 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is executed on the orders of Pope Alexander VI 1533 - The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
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	1857
		1857 3 Deaths Events Earthquake at Fort Tejon, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 deaf.
		1857 in sports See also: 1856 in sports, other events of 1857, 1858 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		War of Independence of 1857 This article should be merged with Indian Mutiny, upon the resolution of the dispute regardi...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1857.html (282 words)

	1857 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
		May 10 - Indian rebellion of 1857: In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meerut, revolt against the British Army
		May 11 - Indian rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1857 (713 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Events and Trends Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony.
		Events and Trends Technology Invention of the telephone (1876) and phonograph (1877) WTF Science Ludwig Boltzmanns statistical definition of thermodynamic entropy War, peace and politics Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) results in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic...
		Michał Drzymała (13 September 1857 in Zdroje near Grodzisk Wielkopolski-25 April 1937 in Grabówka) was a Polish peasant, living in the Greater Poland region (or the Grand Duchy of Poznań) under the Prussian rule.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1857 (4750 words)

	Chapter Summaries of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Charles Francis Adams was appalled by the attempts to "canonize an assassin." In this chapter Stampp expands on the "matrix" of events, the influx of culturally contrasting immigrants and the reactionary nativism, the expanding railroads and the Tariff of 1857, the slave insurrection paranoia since the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion, urban crime, and other issues.
		The primary event, for Stampp, is the Kansas crisis.
		In 1857 this division in the antislavery position formed part of the matrix Stampp says was affecting the Kansas crisis, including the disruption of political parties and pressure on Buchanan even within the Democratic party that might provide some explanation for Buchanan's disastrous policies.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/Stampp1857.html (5555 words)

	History: The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857
		The British standpoint is to regard the events of 1857 as a mutiny.
		Joshi regards the events of 1857 as certainly being a war, but he sees it as being more than a war of independence, it was a `social revolution'.
		To the nationalists the events of 1857 are the first step in a process that took ninety years to achieve the goal of an India ruled by Indians.
	www.cyberessays.com /History/48.htm (2619 words)

	Oudh. Who is Oudh? What is Oudh? Where is Oudh? Definition of Oudh. Meaning of Oudh.
		In the subsequent rebellion of 1857 his 14 year old son Birjis Qadr was crowned ruler.
		Those company troops who were recruited from the state, along with some of the nobility of the state, were major players in the events of 1857 including the Sepoy Rebellion.
		It was anticipated that plunder and impoverishment of Awadh would follow the occupation, as had occurred in other regions occupied by the company.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Oudh (288 words)

	The Story of the Storm — 1857
		This was the case in Ferozpur, Ambala, Layyah, Mianwali and Peshawar.45 Ironically, the revolt of 1857 which is seen as a first organized attempt against colonial hegemony, ‘established the Punjab as the bastion of colonialism and strengthened the basis of an authoritarian structure’.
		1857 was the watershed in the history of sub-continent.
		The lessons of rebellion of 1857 are not interesting for historians only but leaders of post-colonial states have to ponder over the blunders made hundred and fifty years ago.
	www.defencejournal.com /2002/may/storm.htm (9650 words)

	Earthquake History: DISCUSSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Except for the two largest events, the great 1857 and 1906 earthquakes that together ruptured two-thirds of the total length of the San Andreas fault, large earthquakes are conspicuously absent along the master fault itself.
		Except for the central, creeping segment, where numerous small events occur, the San Andreas fault is almost completely aseismic during the long intervals between its rupture in major earthquakes (see Figure 5.6) and Figure 5.9).
		Recent studies of the rupture dynamics of M 6 events occurring within seismically active regions indicate that the rupture zones of these events are similarly aseismic, with smaller events occurring predominantly outside the slip surface, even during the aftershock sequence (Reasenberg and Ellsworth, 1982; Hartzell and Heaton, 1986; Mendoza and Hartzell, 1988).
	www.johnmartin.com /earthquakes/eqsafs/safs_681.htm (514 words)

	FTHA History - The Great 1857 "Fort Tejon" Earthquake
		The 1857 and 1906 events were both on the San Andreas Fault, although the 1906 earthquake ruptured the northern segment of the fault, from Hollister (San Benito Co.) northward, for 400 km (250 miles).
		Duration of shaking, along the fault, for both 1857 and 1906 is estimated to be as long as two minutes.
		The 1857 quake was the last so-called "Big One" in Southern California, and a similar event will almost certainly happen again in the future.
	www.forttejon.org /historyearthquake.html (840 words)

	Anti Essays : : The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The British standpoint is to regard the events of 1857 as a
		Indian nationalist view of the events of 1857 are that it was not as
		events of 1857 in a light that was directed towards the nationalist
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=912 (2245 words)

	Rani Lakshmi Bai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This place is famous for Rani Lakshmi Bai, the woman ruler who fought bravely against the Britishers in the 1857 revolt and laid down her life fighting.ââ.
		Her territory was taken from her under the Doctrine of Lapse in 1853.
		She led a revolt against the British during the Events of 1857 and died fighting.
	www.wikiverse.org /rani-lakshmi-bai (191 words)

	Conclusion Summary of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This focus on the events of 1857 that led to the Civil War is of considerable value for research of the United States history prior to and in the early stages of the Civil War, in order to acquire knowledge of particular persons and particular events that precipitated the war.
		Stampp's argument for the events of 1857 as "the point of no return." acknowledges a potential variance, but he persuasively presents such a series of events suggesting impending civil war.
		In the process, Stampp has informed us of many events to which Seward was likely referring in his "Irrepressible Conflict" speech.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/StamppConcl.html (297 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of state leaders in 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1857 state leaders - Events of 1858 - 1859 state leaders - State leaders by year See also: List of religious leaders in 1858 List of international organization leaders in 1858 List of colonial governors in 1858 // Africa Ashanti Confederacy - Kwaku Dua I Panyin, Asantehene (1834-1867) Buganda - Mutesa I, King of Buganda...
		This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1849 until present.
		The title of Emperor of Austria was proclaimed in 1804 by the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, who feared for the future of the old Reich in the face of Napoleons aggressions, and wished to maintain his imperial title in the event that the Holy Roman Empire should...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-state-leaders-in-1857 (5078 words)

	Shift of Imperial Capital
		The revolt of 1857 led to the British Crown assuming complete control of the Indian territories.
		The University of Calcutta was established in 1857.
		The aftermath of the events of 1857 reduced it to a provincial town of the Punjab, and amenities came to it because of the concerns for the British troops and officials stationed in and around Shahjahanabad, the Walled City.
	www.indhistory.com /capital-calcutta-delhi.html (384 words)

	Earthquake Magnitude: SUMMARY MAGNITUDE (M) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To construct a single, summary-magnitude scale, M, to characterize the relative size of all the events listed in Table 6.1, I use each of the scales described above, being careful to consider such factors as the historical period and event location, as well as the quality of individual determinations.
		For all but two events before 1898 (1857 and 1872) and for two 20th-century events, M is based on MI.
		Summary magnitudes for events before 1850 have not been adjusted upward, owing to the imprecision of the original estimates.
	www.johnmartin.com /earthquakes/eqsafs/safs_696.htm (370 words)

	My City - Meerut
		Meerut leapt into international prominence during the revolt of 1857, when on 24 April, 1857, eighty-five troopers out of ninety of the third cavalry refused to touch the cartridges and after court martial, were sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
		However, the events of 1857 established the British authority firmly and they began to create an elaborate system of transportation and communication; and a chain of English schools to turn out an army of intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
		Since Meerut was the most important town in the western part of the United Provinces, and a better centre of commerce, education and politics, it contained a higher proportion of men engaged in the liberal professions, in the judiciary and in business.
	www.geocities.com /g_mishra/meerut.html (1112 words)

	The Moonstone and British India (1857, 1868, and 1876)
		Perhaps the new genre and Collins's ambivalent attitudes owe something to context in which his readers would have viewed any subject associated with India after the 1857 Sepoy rebellion, produced by an English failure to understand the deeply religious nature of India's Muslims and Hindus.
		The storming of the Seringapatam, in 1799, which establishes the importance of the moonstone and the curse which follows its misuse, was part of the continued interest in India.
		Their course of thought and action under the circumstances which surround them, is shown to be(what it would most probably have been in real life) sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/collins/pva30.html (2161 words)

	American Experience \| The Rockefellers \| People & Events
		The result, Ida Tarbell’s magazine series "The History of the Standard Oil Company," would not only change the history of journalism, but also the fate of Rockefeller’s empire, shaken by the powerful pen of its most implacable observer.
		Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region.
		But events and trends far more immediate were calling for attention.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_tarbell.html (1122 words)

	The Causes Of The Rebellion
		he events of 1857 were unique both in terms of historical precedence and in terms of the socio-political sphere as far as India was concerned.
		Later on after 1857, the British by and large accepted it as one of the principal causes of the rebellion of 1857.
		Thus after 1857 the British Government which assumed the Government of India decided to ally with the feudals whereas before 1857 their predecessor the EEIC were following an excellent policy of destroying feudalism in India.
	defencejournal.com /aug99/rebellion.htm (11069 words)

	1856
		1856 in music See also: 1855 in music, other events of 1856, 1857 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
		1856 in sports See also: 1855 in sports, other events of 1856, 1857 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		Heads of State in 1856 Heads of State: 1857 1864) 1859) 1870) 1857) 1901) 1857)...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1856.html (283 words)

	JHANSI - LoveToKnow Article on JHANSI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Reports were spread which excited the religious prejudices of the Hindus.
		The events of 1857 accordingly found Jhansi ripe for mutiny.
		In June a few men of the 12th native infantry seized the fort containing the treasure and magazine, and massacred the European officers of the garrison.
	11.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JH/JHANSI.htm (704 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Indian Mutiny: 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		What was their view of events, what action had they taken to quell the mutiny, and perhaps more about the relationship between them and the British Government.
		Every bit their equal is Saul David who in this book describes the dramatic events of 1857 and 1858 when the complacent British rule of India came near to being swept away.
		The course of events is vividly taken up by Saul David, leading the reader from city walls and bazaars, across dusty plains, to the villages and fields of the Indo-Gangetic plain, hill-top forts, Calcutta’s sweltering palaces, and reaching its conclusion in the jungles of Nepal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141005548 (1646 words)

	SparkNotes: The Civil War 1850–1865: The Buchanan Years: 1857–1858
		Meanwhile, the bleeding had not stopped in Kansas, where abolitionist settlers and border ruffians, unable to agree on a territorial government, established two separate ones—a Free-Soil legislature in Topeka and a proslavery legislature in Lecompton.
		After the Free-Soilers boycotted a rigged election to draft a state constitution in 1857, proslavery settlers were given a free hand to write the document as they sought fit.
		The depression was sparked by the Panic of 1857, which occurred when newspapers reported the failure of a prominent bank in the Midwest.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/civilwar/section3.rhtml (904 words)

	CAMERA INDICA
		There was almost no mention of the 1857 uprising, very little of the Raj - no pictures which showed the nature of the relationship of ruler and ruled and other sensitive issues.
		If these recent events stimulated a debate on the social function of photography and its utility as an instrument of historical documentation, the two books under review further the debate and succeed in clarifying many of the underlying issues.
		This book is an essential addition to any library as a primary document of the events of 1857 as well as a crucial moment in photographic history.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1815/18150640.htm (3159 words)

	A Fresh Look at 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The British deliberately and with malice diminished 1857 uprising.
		The Great 1857 uprising story rests mostly upon the records (evidence, etc.) of the victorious British.
		They deliberately and with malice diminished the event as well as all Indians who took part in the 1857 uprising.
	members.tripod.com /anantmithal/Itihaas/1998/it980419AFreshLookat1857.html (1192 words)

	The Mutiny and Modern India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This can be related to the failure of the educated classes to support the revolt in 1857; they saw their future bound up with the new order, as much as they might dislike it, rather than with the old rulers.
		The Sepoys wait in their cantonments, they realize that events are moving fast; they are bewildered and it seems to them that unless they do something, they will be disarmed, and then perhaps, as they have heard, they will be shot down.
		But after 1857 the Government attitude was dominated by a fear that the Mutiny should ever happen again; there was a preoccupation with religion and with the susceptibilities of the people.
	members.aol.com /dwagenberg/tinker.html (4120 words)

	Texas Council for the Humanities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		History books often present synchronoptical timelines illustrating events in a state, e.g., Texas, on one side of the timeline, and events in the country at large on the other side.
		Once the chosen events have been researched, create a timeline large enough to accommodate the dates 1857 to the present.
		The following events are highlighted in bold letters, and should be given to student in this form, with no explanation of the event's details or importance.
	www.humanitiestexas.org /initiatives/parallel_class.htm (1724 words)

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