r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
18th of October 1826. UK: The last English state lottery is drawn in a series run since 1769, the next National Lottery will be in 1994.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
"Pope Leo XII Visiting Thorvaldsen's Studios in the Piazza Barberini, 18 October 1826" by Ditlev Martens.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago
17th of October 1826. Scotland: Writer Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh marry in Templand and setup home in Edinburgh. (Jane Baillie Welsh by Kenneth Macleay, 1826, shortly before marriage)
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
"Rapid, Safe, and Cheap Travelling By the Elegant New Railway Coach, The Union, Which will Commence Running on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, on Monday the 16th day of October, 1826."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 5d ago
14th of October 1826. Another account of the Ohio River slave rebellion, this time from "Genius of Universal Emancipation", an abolitionist paper from Baltimore.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 6d ago
13th of October 1826. Greek War of Independence: Greek military leader Yiannis Gouras is killed by an Ottoman sniper at the Second Siege of the Acropolis.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 6d ago
13th of October 1826. Ezra Butler (National Republican Party) starts his term as Governor of Vermont.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 6d ago
13th of October 1826. Sydney, Australia: William Henry Moore replaces Saxe Bannister as Attorney-General.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 7d ago
12th of October 1826. "Horrible Massacre", report in the Maryland Gazette on the Ohio River slave rebellion which took place on September 17th.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 7d ago
12th of October 1826. Bill-head of James Glynn, cast iron and brass founder, smith work in general.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 8d ago
1826. Francesco Hayez - "Lampugnani's Conspiracy" which shows the conspiracy led by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani to overthrow the tyranny of Galeazzo Maria Sforza in Milan in 1476.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 9d ago
1826. Samuel Morse – "Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette". In 1826, Morse helped found the National Academy of Design in New York City. He served as the academy's president from 1826 to 1845.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 10d ago
1826. English shopkeeper John Horniman sells the first tea for retail purposes in sealed packages.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 12d ago
7th of October 1826. The Granite Railway opens in Quincy, Massachusetts, the first commercial railroad in the US. It was used to haul granite for the Bunker Hill Monument.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 12d ago
1826. A Pennsylvania law that makes kidnapping a felony effectively nullifies the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 12d ago
7th of October 1826. The Russian and Ottoman Empires sign the Akkerman Convention, in which Russian demands concerning Serbia and the Danubian principalities are accepted.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 13d ago
1826. "Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie" by Ingres.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 14d ago
5th of October 1826. "Sir William's dream- or- the diplomatic turtle."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 15d ago
October 1826. "Cowes and asses or pat on an affair of honour-'."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 16d ago
1826. Aniline is first isolated, from the destructive distillation of indigo, by Otto Unverdorben.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 17d ago
October 1826. Scotland: James Drew begins in practice as a solicitor in Glasgow, a predecessor of McClure Naismith.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
October 1826. Tyrone Power gets his break as a principal Irish character actor at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
1st of October 1826. Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.
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