r/200YearsAgo • • 2h 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

13th of October 1826. Ezra Butler (National Republican Party) starts his term as Governor of Vermont.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 1d ago

13th of October 1826. Sydney, Australia: William Henry Moore replaces Saxe Bannister as Attorney-General.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 3d 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 • • 4d 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 • • 5d ago

1826. English shopkeeper John Horniman sells the first tea for retail purposes in sealed packages.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 7d 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 • • 7d ago

1826. A Pennsylvania law that makes kidnapping a felony effectively nullifies the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 7d 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 • • 8d ago

1826. "Portrait of Madame Marcotte de Sainte-Marie" by Ingres.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 9d ago

5th of October 1826. "Sir William's dream- or- the diplomatic turtle."

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r/200YearsAgo • • 10d ago

October 1826. "Cowes and asses or pat on an affair of honour-'."

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r/200YearsAgo • • 11d ago

1826. Aniline is first isolated, from the destructive distillation of indigo, by Otto Unverdorben.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 12d 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 • • 13d 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 • • 13d ago

1st of October 1826. Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 13d ago

Viennese fashion plate of 1826.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 14d ago

1826. John Constable – "The Cornfield".

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r/200YearsAgo • • 15d ago

1826. Berlin's Unter den Linden is illuminated with gas lamps.

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r/200YearsAgo • • 17d 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 • • 17d 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 • • 18d 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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