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The United States Army is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is designated as the army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As a part …
The United States Army abolishes flogging.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State…
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which…
William Bispham Propsting, CMG was an Australian lawyer and politician. He served as premier of Tasmania from 1903 to 1904. He was a member of the parliament of Tasmania for over 3…
William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (died 1937)
Robina Nicol was a Scottish-born New Zealand photographer and suffragist.
Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942)
Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann was a prominent Baltic German chemist-physicist who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous e…
Gustav Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (died 1938)
Sir Alexander James Peacock was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Premier of Victoria.
Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (died 1933)
Louis Rogers "Pete" Browning, nicknamed "Gladiator" and "the Louisville Slugger", was an American professional baseball center fielder and left fielder. He played in Major League B…
Pete Browning, American baseball player (died 1905)
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask…
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the…
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beet…
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining…
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
Major General Omar Bundy was a career United States Army officer who was a veteran of the American Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Pancho Villa Expediti…
Omar Bundy, American general (died 1940)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Fro…
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (died 1928)
Gustave Émile Haug was a French geologist and paleontologist known for his contribution to the geosyncline theory.
Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1927)
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly …
José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. H…
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, also known as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of European settlers by Indigenous Australians that occurred on 17 October 1861, north of modern-day S…
Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which formed in 1861 by Southern states that had decided to secede from the Union…
American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major…
The first transcontinental telegraph was a line that connected the existing telegraph network in the eastern United States to a small network in California, by means of a link betw…
The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
John Peltz was an American professional baseball player in the 19th century. Peltz first played with the Indianapolis Hoosiers, in 1884 at the age of 23. He batted .219 and surrend…
John Peltz, American baseball player and manager (died 1906)
Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, 1st Baron Strickland,, usually known between 1897 and January 1928 as Sir Gerald Strickland, was…
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1940)
William James Mayo was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their fat…
William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)