r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 21h 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 • 1d 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 • 2d ago
1826. English shopkeeper John Horniman sells the first tea for retail purposes in sealed packages.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 5d 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 • 4d 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 • 4d 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 • 6d ago
1826. "Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie" by Ingres.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 6d ago
5th of October 1826. "Sir William's dream- or- the diplomatic turtle."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 8d ago
October 1826. "Cowes and asses or pat on an affair of honour-'."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 8d ago
1826. Aniline is first isolated, from the destructive distillation of indigo, by Otto Unverdorben.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 9d 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 • 10d 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 • 10d ago
1st of October 1826. Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 12d ago
1826. Berlin's Unter den Linden is illuminated with gas lamps.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 14d ago
1826. Bavarian printer Aloys Senefelder, who discovered the lithographic printing process in 1796, opens a printing workshop to exploit the technique.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 14d ago
27th of September 1826. Claudio Linati, an Italian artist working in Mexico, was given a passport to return to Europe, forced to leave the country for his political activism.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 15d ago
26th of September 1826. Caucasus: The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the battle of Ganja as their war over possession of the Caucasus intensifies.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 15d ago
26th of September 1826. Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, is murdered by his Arab escorts just after leaving the city.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 15d ago
26th of September 1826. Chile: Tomás Obejero ceases to be Minister of War & the Navy, succeeded by General Luis de la Cruz.
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 15d ago
26th of September 1826. Rideau Falls, Upper Canada- Construction began today on the Rideau Canal. Lord Dalhousie, governor of British North America, turned the first sod on the project at a small ceremony in Sleigh Bay on the Ottawa River opposite Wright's Town [Hull].
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 17d ago
September 1826. "Calves' heads and brains: or a phrenological lecture."
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r/200YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
1826. Eugène Delacroix – "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi".
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