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  History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The representative government in Cape Colony was replaced in 1872 by "responsible government", ie self-government, and the new parliament in Cape Town resented the manner in which Lord Carnarvon presented his suggestions.
In accordance with the law of the colony, the court held that the eldest son of a native was his heir.
Recession and its aftermath: The Cape Colony in the eighteen eighties.
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 History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After a battle in January 1806 on the shores of Table Bay, the Dutch garrison of Cape Castle surrendered to the British under Sir David Baird, and in 1814 the colony was ceded outright by the Netherlands to the British crown.
At that time the colony extended to the mountains in front of the vast central plateau, then called "Bushmansland", and had an area of about 194,000 square kilometres and a population of some 60,000, of whom 27,000 were white, 17,000 free Khoikhoi (Hottentots), and the rest slaves.
A difficulty between the Cape Colony government and the Xhosa arose in 1817, the immediate cause of which was an attempt by the colonial authorities to enforce the restitution of some stolen cattle.
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 CAPE COLONY - LoveToKnow Article on CAPE COLONY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cape Point (Cape of Good Hope) stands 840 ft. above the sea; Cape Agulhas 455 ft. Farther on the green-clad sides of the Uiteniquas Mountains are plainly visible from the sea, and as the traveller by boat proceeds eastward, stretches of forest are seen and numbers of mountain streams carrying their waters to the ocean.
Indwe (2608) is the centre of the coalmining region in the east of the colony.
Cape Colony entered the Union as an original province, being represented in the Union parliament by eight members in the Senate and fifty-one in the House of Assembly.
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 Cape Lookout Lighthouse
Cape Lookout though much improved by the new lens was still not sufficient to the task.
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest free standing brick lighthouse tower in the United States and probably the world.
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse might look okay with the checkers but the Cape Lookout Lighthouse is too short to carry the spirals as gracefully as Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
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 The New Imperialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the backward colonial peoples, argued Lenin, capitalism had found a new proletariat to exploit; and from the enhanced profits of such imperialism it was able to bribe at least the "aristocracy of labor" at home into renouncing its revolutionary fervor and collaborating with the bourgeoisie.
Adam Smith had argued that the burdens of colonialism outweighed its alleged benefits; radicalism favored laissez faire; Bentham urged France to ''Emancipate your Colonies''; Cobdenism preached free trade and the abolition of all commercial privileges; and in 1861 France opened to all nations the trade of her colonies.
The decades between 1870 and 1914 speedily completed the expansion of European influence and civilization over the whole of the earth; and it was accomplished in an era when the realism, ruthlessness, and rivalries of European national governments were exceptionally great.
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 Boer War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
War was declared on October 12, 1899 and the Boers struck first by invading Cape Colony and Natal Colony between October 1899 and January 1900.
At the Battle of Stormberg on December 10, British General Sir William Gatacre, who was in command of 3,000 troops to beat off Boer raids in Cape Colony, tried to recapture a railway junction about 50 miles south of the Orange River.
Workers were often kept in appalling conditions, received only a small wage and were forbidden to socialise with the local population — this led to further public shock at the resulting homosexual acts between those unable use the services of prostitutes.
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 Settlement of the Cape Colony (from history of South Africa) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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By the time Britain annexed the Cape Colony in 1814, white farmers had occupied much of the present-day Western and Eastern Cape.
English colony in what is now North Carolina that disappeared in 1591; the Croatan Indians in North Carolina claim to be descendants of an American Indian tribe and the colonists who joined and intermarried with them; thus an explanation is given for the physical characteristics and occasional English names of the Croatans
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 Internet African History Sourcebook
A Greek colony on the North African coast.
The pope gives a history of slavery in the modern period, condemns Muslim slavery and condones anti-slavery activity by popes.
With extended discussion of the Ancient and Modern history of Somalia.
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 ITALIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He was part of the famous Taliaferro clan of Virginia, of which Taliaferro county is named after.
1899                            A mob dragged three Sicilian shopkeepers from a jail in Tallulah, Louisiana, and caught two others.
1899 January 17           Alphonse Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, the fourth of nine children of immigrant parents from Naples.
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 Birth Records, Marriage Records, Death Records. Parish & Proabate Record Databases. Vital Records & Certificates.
British Columbia Birth Index: 1872 to 1899 An Index of births in the province of British Columbia, Canada, from 1872 to 1899.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1744-1801: Tohickon Union Reformed Church Baptisms, marriages, burials, and history of the Tohickon Union Reformed Church in Pennsylvania.
Cape Girardeau and Adjoining Counties, Missouri, Cemetery Records Collection of cemetery records from Cape Girardeau and adjoining counties in Missouri.
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 BBC - History - The Boer War 1899 - 1902   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BBC - History - The Boer War 1899 - 1902
The Boers invaded Cape Colony and besieged towns such as Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley.
Massive British and imperial forces were deployed and, under the leadership of Kitchener, concentration camps were used to house Boer resisters and their families.
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Barents-Expedition of 1596 on the northern cape of Nowaja Semlja
1870 - 7.May - at 61° 12' N the floe breaks up and the journey is continued in boats
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 A History of the International Date Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in which the meridian line located 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands would divide the spheres of influence of the Spanish crown (westwards of the demarcation line) and the Portuguese crown (eastwards of the same line).
The demarcation line was moved to 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands in the following year by the Treaty of Tordesillas, sanctioned by Pope Julius II in 1506.
In 1570 he sent an expedition to the northern island of Luzon and in the next year he founded the city of Manila, which became the capital of the new Spanish colony and Spain’s major trading port in East Asia.
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 WWW-VL: History: Military History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides Translated by Richard Crawley [text version]
The History of the Nursing Sisters of Canada
RETURN TO WWW-VL: History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
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 1870 - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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1870 : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
Phrases that include 1870: history of cape colony from 1806 to 1870, history of cape colony from 1870 to 1899
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 Railroad History, Railways, Locomotives, entrepreneurs, business history 19c American, Jensen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Land grants note: the federal government gave the RR empty land to construct new lines in the west; the government kept every other section in checkerboard fashion, and resold its land for large sums; the railroads used their lands to back construction mortgages, then sold the land to farmers to pay off those mortgages
The History of the First Locomotives In America From Original Documents And The Testimony Of Living Witnesses by William H. Brown (1871)
Finally in 1976, after an effort to reorganize, EL was forced to accept financial assistance from the federal government and was absorbed into Conrail, thus disappearing as an identifiable carrier.
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 EGYPT - Online Information article about EGYPT
history from the earliest times is given as a See also:
MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat.
Period; (3) Modern History (from Mehemet See also:
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 Timeline 1862-1863
The Bobbsey Twins series (Laura Lee Hope) was next, and is the oldest "surviving" series, extending to 72 volumes, written between 1904 and 1979.
In 1973 scientists from North Carolina’s Duke University discovered the deteriorating relic 16 miles from the coast, in 240 feet of water.
He concluded his speech with this vow: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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The following is a timeline of British history which may be of use to family historians in order to set their family events in their historical context.
As far as possible it includes regnal dates for English, Welsh and Scottish monarchs; major battles; the births and deaths of major religious and artistic figures; the founding of major universities, schools etc; the founding of orders of chivalry; the founding of major organisations; sporting, ceremonial and religious events; inventions; and general British history.
1899 = Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
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