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 History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine
Other Events of 1845 - The schooner Chapman, Capt. Charles Gale, of Port Burwell, laden with lumber, bound for Cleveland, was wrecked a short distance above Long Point, Lake Erie, and was a total loss.
She was hauled over the portage at the Sault in the fall of 1845, and in 1846 placed in command of Capt. Benj.
Others ascended the shrouds, clinging in masses to the ratlines, up to the very crosstrees, from which as the fire reached the combustible material they were soon precipitated into the burning mass beneath.
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 Carmen Story Origins
Other events of 1846, the year Mérimée published his novella.
Mérimée left his mark in a number of other fields, as administrator, scholar, archeologist, authority on medieval architecture, historian, and translator.
In 1854 he was appointed a Senator, and thereafter became a prominent figure at the court of Napoleon III.
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 Recollections of People and Events Of Dubuque, Iowa 1846-1890 (Part 1)
The other was a log house on a little knoll on the corner of 18th and Clay.
The other 2 companies were largely eastern speculations and their failure was not felt so much in Dubuque.
Oliver, the marble cutter, resided in one of the others, and a Mr.
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 SOS, Missouri - State Archives Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857
All of this was the result of an April 1846 action when Dred Scott innocently made his mark with an "X," signing his petition in a pro forma freedom suit, initiated under Missouri law, to sue for freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court.
She had two other brothers; one was the St. Louis County sheriff for a time in the 1840s, and one, Charles Edmund LaBeaume, was a St. Louis attorney who played an important role in Dred Scott's freedom suits.
In a fortuitous turn of events, he had replaced the proslavery Judge Krum; Hamilton's general sympathy toward slave freedom suits was favorable to Dred and Harriet Scott.
www.sos.mo.gov /archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp   (7611 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1846 in archaeology
The year 1846 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.
See also: 1845 in archaeology, other events of 1846, 1847 in archaeology and the list of years in archaeology.
Categories: 1846 John Disney (29th May, 1779-6th May, 1857) was an English barrister and archaeologist.
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 MSN Encarta - Mexican War
By 1846 the church’s presence on the Mexican frontier had diminished, with empty parishes in places where friars once proudly served.
Because one of the primary goals of the missionaries was to convert Native Americans to Christianity and pressure them to adopt Hispanic customs, the decline of the religious orders also meant a decline in the influence of Hispanic culture and Catholicism in the region.
Those who believed in Manifest Destiny also believed that the culture of the United States was superior to other cultures and that republican forms of government and democracy should be expanded in order to “civilize” other peoples.
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 The Mexican War
Although Santa Anna himself was in Cuba, other Centralists began planning the overthrow of Herrera, and the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845 provided them with a jingoistic cause.
Abolitionists in the United States, who had opposed the annexation of Texas as a slave state, claimed that the move to the Rio Grande was a hostile and aggressive act by Polk to provoke a war with Mexico to add new slave territory to the United States.
On Dec. 6, 1846, Kearny, en route to San Diego, met the rebels in an indecisive action at the Battle of San Pascual.
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 Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest_NEWS & EVENTS
In fall 1998, Travis McDonald, the director of architectural restoration, uncovered a treasure trove of artifacts when he removed the 1846 hearthstone from the fireplace in the cube room as part of the interior structural restoration.
Sifting through the sand that formed the stone’s bed, McDonald found pieces of plaster, glass, burned wood, animal bone and sculpture from the frieze portion of the entablature thought to be from the cube room.
The Hutter family, who owned Poplar Forest during much of the 19th century, noted in their farm journal of Nov. 9, 1846 that 63 loads of plaster and charred materials from the fire were spread over the wheat field.
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 1846 in Canada - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
See also: 1845 in Canada, other events of 1846, 1847 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
The Irish potato famine begins, marking a change in the composition of Irish immigrating to Canada from rich, well-connected, respectable Protestants to poor, ill-equipped, poorly-treated Catholics.
January 29 - Many persons in the Eastern Townships are arrested on charge of counterfeiting, being afterwards tried before Sir James Stuart and other Judges.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1846_in_Canada   (257 words)

  
 America’s Asian Empire: Aggression, A-Bombs and Other Atrocities
The other was to enable the American government to avoid liability to claims by American veterans of the action.
These events, considered as a whole, would lead anyone to conclude that the reason for the start of American involvement in World War II was not only the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but the clash of empires in Asia.
In my previous article, I showed that the notion of a Japanese citizenry worshipping the emperor as their God and being prepared to fight to the death in World War II is a post-war myth, and most probably an excuse forwarded by American post-war atomic bomb apologists.
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 Recollections of People and Events Of Dubuque, Iowa 1846-1890 (Part 2)
The other, on the corner of 5th, was a nice two story frame, built and owned by a lawyer named Reed.
The other buildings on (186) the block were nearly all frame up to the corner of 10th.
On the other or opposite side of the avenue was the Welk (now Diamond) house built in the early fifties.
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 1846 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1843 1844 1845 - 1846 - 1847 1848 1849
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
January 5 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
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 Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - 1848
He had allowed Santa Anna to return to Mexico from his exile in Cuba in the summer of 1846, because the wily and treacherous dictator held out false promises of effecting a reconciliation between Mexico and the United States.
With our acquisition of the Oregon territory to the forty-ninth parallel by the treaty of 1846 with Great Britain, and the cession of California and New Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, the boundaries of the United States reached practically their present limits.
Expansion, the watchword of the decade 1840-1850, was dropped from our vocabulary for fifty years, and the immense energies of the nation were directed toward finding a plan on which the new territory could be organized in harmony with the conflicting interests of the free and slave sections of our country.
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A few trappers had penetrated the country, and in a few localities east of the Cascade mountains missions had been established to teach and regenerate the savages; later immigrants slowly won their way on a weary march to the Willamette valley, the ultima Thule of the earliest overlanders to Oregon.
Other officers of this court were William R. Gibson, clerk; B.M. Reynolds, sheriff; and N. Huber, prosecuting attorney.
There was but one other horn to this dilemma -- in the eyes of the trial magistrate; he accepted the prisoner's promissory note for the amount, "payable six months after date," and gave the man his liberty.
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 Cracow Revolution 1846   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The conspiracy, seriously weakened by the events of 1846, continued to exist in Cracow, supported by the proletariat; in the province, the conspirators feared another jacquerie and gave up agitation among the peasants.
The collapse of the 1846 revolution and the peasants' jacquerie challenged the role of the Polish politicians outside the country as a leading political force; they were more and more detached from the situation in partitioned Poland.
Soon after the events of the Cracow revolution Russia and Austria came out with a demand to the French government of strengthening supervision over the Polish emigration in France; thanks to the pro-Polish attitude of a large part of French public o pinion, the postulates were not realized.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/cracow.htm   (552 words)

  
 The Donner Party
Read reports from other Donner Party buffs who visited historic sites and made new discoveries, or re-discovered a bit of history.
Lose Weight and Party All at the Same Time!" But other than the gory cover art and a few shocking statements such as "None of the members had any recipes for human flesh before starting their journey," the book is a solid history of the Donner Party and a solid cookbook of trail food.
The Oregon-California Trails Association conducts numerous events to preserve the emigrant trail.
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 Encyclopedia: 2001
This is a list of aviation-related events from 2001: Events April: The unmanned aircraft Global Hawk flies automatically from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled.
One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere and several others are badly injured during an attack by the police on a school which the protesters were using as their headquarters.
By an act of Congress July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac was returned to Virginia effective in 1847 As of 2000...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2001   (10416 words)

  
 Civil War Prelude: Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Increase of population, which is filling the states out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the states into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation.
In addition to other wounds, Sumner suffered from brain damage and required a lengthy recuperation, and Sumner's seat was kept empty as a sign of southern aggression.
However, these events did occur, and William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, attempted to avert the Civil War by exchanging a fort for a state, even by suggesting that he provoke a war with France, England, and Spain in order to unite the nation in a common cause.
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 1846 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
And those who had left Adrianople, the Venetians and the others who Emperor Baldwin.
There they found William of Blanvel, who kept the because he accompanied them with as many men as he could, they turned which belonged to the Venetians, and they found it empty.
So they the break of dawn before Arcadiopohs; and then began, from all sides, well, and opened their 89 gates, and issued forth, attacking vigorously.
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 Bradford PA, Bradford's Other Web Site.
But, what happened to the other seven samples is anyone's guess.
In July of 2002, Kerry signed a letter to the Massachusetts State Legislature opposing a proposed constitutional amendment discriminating on basis of sexual orientation, in other words, same sex marriages.
1846 - The planet Neptune was first observed by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
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 William Henry Seward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During 1857, two events changed the course of American history and contributed to the rise of the Republican party and their successful election in 1860.
In 1859, from October 16 to 18, radical abolitionist John Brown and his sons and other accomplices raided the Harpers Ferry, Virginia, arsenal in an attempt to arm slaves for rebellion.
After the March inauguration of Lincoln, the April events initiating the Civil War occurred in rapid succession: on April 14 the Southern forces captured Fort Sumter in the Charleston, SC., harbor; and, on April 15 Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 troops to suppress the insurrection.
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 George Westinghouse - His Original Internet Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Westinghouse was born in Central Bridge, New York on October 6, 1846.
To him, his house was the most pleasant place in the world and his wife, Marguerite, the dearest woman alive, the one he most wanted to please.
Dinner conversations usually centered around current events, were enthusiastic and sometimes inspirational.
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 Summary of Events: 1846 Religious Exile from Madeira
From August 9-23, 1846, two British warships kept firing their guns at intervals to show, as the captains remarked, "that afloat, at least, the English could and would protect themselves." The sound of the guns gave great encouragement to the fugitives in the mountains and many made their way on board.
On August 23, 1846, the "William of Glasgow" began her voyage to Trinidad.
The exiles were stranded in New York, entirely dependent upon others for survival as their future prospects were suspended.
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 American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | People & Events | Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846.
Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, and by then the country was already collapsing.
South Carolina and six other slave states had seceded from the Union.
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 Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation: Upcoming events
For those of you who like to plan way ahead, our 2006 events list is now online as well.
However, we'll soon be announcing the schedule for the Wild Iowa Discovery series, a group of public conferences, school programs, national speakers and many other events.
For more information or to post an event on the web calendar, e-mail Cathy Engstrom, Director of Communications, or call (515) 288-1846.
www.inhf.org /upcomingevents.htm   (133 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - Events from 1840 to 1850
One group heads north into Oregon, while the other, led by Bidwell, continues west to California, suffering desperate hardship and near starvation before arriving in Sacramento, where Bidwell finds work with John Sutter.
Francisco Lopez discovers gold dust in the roots of an onion he dug up for lunch, touching off a local gold rush to San Feliciano Canyon near Los Angeles, but news of the discovery is largely ignored elsewhere.
Cayuse warriors massacre Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, Narcissa, and twelve others at Waiilatpu, their mission on the Columbia River in reprisal for deaths caused by a measles epidemic among their tribe.
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 Galicia, Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Similar to the events of 1846, the society was divided into those representing the interests of the aristocracy, nobility and rich bourgeoisie; and those representing workers, artisans and the urban proletariat.
While the first group considered the national guard as a military force able to prevent attacks against noble manors, the other considered it as a Polish military cadre that would support Polish troops in the kingdom in case of an all-Polish uprising.
On April 6 the address was presented to Emperor Ferdinand I; at an audience he received only Prince Lubomirski with a small group of delegates and fobbed them off with declarations of his friendliness to the Poles and with promises to give his response to the address through his ministers.
www.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/galacia.htm   (880 words)

  
 1846 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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This charming creature, so full of life and youth, heaved the pillow, and remained for some moments as if powerless and vanquished.
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 Outer Planets
Her paper on the subject was published in 1846, incidentally the year Neptune was discovered, so one might credibly argue the computer is a child of Neptune.
Between 1846 and 1930, the principles of Electricity are defined by Maxwell’s equations from 1862-1874, the understanding of the Principles of Light are expanded by Tesla, Angstrom, Edison, Michelson and Morley.
So if we take the Cancerian traits away from the events of the time, we are left with, economic turmoil, great strides in particle physics, a redefining of ethics and philosophy.
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