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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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196 |
Citizenship within a Greek polis was limited to free adult males. |
History > Ancient |
01/29/09 |
|
197 |
The Chinese influenced writing, architecture, and religion in Japan. |
History > Asian |
01/29/09 |
|
198 |
The Song Dynasty lasted from 960 CE to 1279 CE. |
History > Asian |
01/30/09 |
|
199 |
King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting the power of the king. |
History > European |
01/30/09 |
|
200 |
The British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada in 1867. |
History > Famous Dates |
01/31/09 |
|
201 |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, a building made entirely of glass and iron. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
|
202 |
The Credit Mobilier of Paris was founded by Isaac and Emile Pereire, two young Jewish journalists from Bordeaux. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
|
203 |
Louis XVIII and Charles X were brothers of Louis XVI, but both men died without an heir, which ended the Bourbon dynasty. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
204 |
David Ricardo, a wealthy English stockbroker and economist, stated in his iron law of wages that wages would always sink to subsistence level due to the pressure of population growth. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
205 |
James Nasmyth successfully introduced the steam hammer in 1832, which was the forerunner of the modern pile driver. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
206 |
King Louis XVIII was forced to sign the Constitutional Charter of 1814 by the Congress of Vienna in order to be restored to the throne of France. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
207 |
Henry Cort developed the puddling furance in the 1780s, which allowed pig iron to be refined with coke. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
208 |
George Stephenson built an effective locomotive called the "Rocket", which ran at sixteen miles per hour on the track of the recently completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
209 |
Louis Napoleon became the President of the Second Republic of France after an election in 1848. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
|
210 |
Thomas Malthus believed the population would always outgrow its food supply. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
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