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Vor einem Tag · 19th century. An 1835 illustration of power loom weaving, as part of the Industrial Revolution. The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval.
Vor 2 Tagen · The outstanding political leaders of the 19th century included Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, and Salisbury. Culturally, the Victorian era was a time of prosperity and dominant middle-class virtues when Britain dominated the world economy and maintained a generally peaceful century from 1815 to 1914.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Selk'nam Genocide was the genocide of the Selk'nam people, indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego in South America, from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century. Spanning a period of between ten and fifteen years the Selk'nam, which had an estimated population of between three and four thousand, saw their numbers reduced to 500.
Vor 5 Tagen · Impressionism, a broad term used to describe the work produced in the late 19th century, especially between about 1867 and 1886, by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The founding Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Bohemianism has most strongly been associated with the plights of male writers. Though women were involved in the lifestyle, the expanding bohemian world of 19th-century Paris was dominated by men hailing from educated middle-class families. Individuals associated with Murger’s bohemia were generally not born into the impoverished ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Britain: 19th and 20th Centuries. History Theses 1901-1970: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1976. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Vor 3 Tagen · For the rest of the 19th century, the Royal Navy helped enforce what became known as the Pax Britannica—i.e., the long period of relative peace arising from a balance of power between the major European states that depended ultimately on the use of British maritime supremacy.
