War of 1812 - Wikipedia
WEB3 days ago · In 1816, the United States Congress passed into law an "Act for the gradual increase of the Navy" at a cost of $1,000,000 a year for eight years, authorizing nine ships of the line and 12 heavy frigates. The captains and commodores of the Navy became the heroes of their generation in the United States.
Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana - Wikipedia
WEB2 days ago · La Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana è la legge fondamentale dello Stato italiano, e si posiziona al vertice della gerarchia delle fonti nell'ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica. Considerata una costituzione scritta, rigida, lunga, votata, compromissoria, laica, democratica e tendenzialmente programmatica, è formata da 139 …
Lord Byron - Wikipedia
WEB3 days ago · In the summer of 1816 he settled at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with his personal physician, John William Polidori. There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author Mary Godwin , Shelley’s future wife.
List of wars: 1800–1899 - Wikipedia
WEB3 days ago · This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
Dutch East Indies - Wikipedia
WEB1 day ago · Following Napoleon's defeat at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna, independent Dutch control was restored in 1816 on the basis of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814. The Commissioners-General of the Dutch East Indies reformed the public finances of the colony and drew up a new Regeringsreglement that would define the ...
Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia
WEB3 days ago · Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical ...
Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia
WEB2 days ago · 1816: René Laennec invents the first Stethoscope. 1816: Francis Ronalds builds the first working electric telegraph using electrostatic means. 1816: Robert Stirling invents the Stirling engine. 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor to the modern bicycle.
British Museum - Wikipedia
WEB2 days ago · In 1816 these masterpieces of western art were acquired by the British Museum by Act of Parliament and deposited in the museum thereafter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia, Greece in 1815.
History of Russia - Wikipedia
WEB2 days ago · Location of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union in 1956–1991. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
Königreich Württemberg – Wikipedia
WEB2 days ago · Als 1816 König Wilhelm I. den Thron bestieg, organisierte er das Heerwesen 1817 neu, was hauptsächlich auf die Reduzierung der Truppenzahl hinauslief. Die württembergische Armee bestand zu Zeiten des Deutschen Bundes aus acht Regimentern Infanterie mit je zwei Bataillonen zu vier Kompanien.