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Vor 2 Tagen · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
Vor einem Tag · At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 square kilometres (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British and Mongol empires; it also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867.
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 4 Tagen · Carl von Clausewitz (born June 1, 1780, Burg, near Magdeburg, Prussia [Germany]—died Nov. 16, 1831, Breslau, Silesia [now Wrocław, Pol.]) was a Prussian general and military thinker, whose work Vom Kriege (1832; On War) has become one of the most respected classics on military strategy.
Vor 4 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.
Vor 5 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 einem Tag · The 19th century in York thus saw the development of clearly marked areas. At the bottom of the social scale were tightly packed districts like Walmgate whose population had been swollen by the Irish, whose numbers, though falling, continued to be considerable at the end of the century: 'of those who remain many find work as general ...
