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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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76 |
In the 8th century, Charlemagne stated that 240 pennies should be minted from a pound of silver. |
History > Ancient |
02/12/09 |
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77 |
Luddites often destroyed machines during the Industrial Revolution, for they felt the machines were leaving them without work. |
History > European |
02/11/09 |
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78 |
The Mines Acts of 1842 forbade women and children under the age of ten to work underground. |
History > European |
02/10/09 |
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79 |
Louis-Philippe of France was forced to abdicate the French throne after the February 1848 Revolution; he escaped to England and renamed himself "Mr. Smith". |
History > European |
02/08/09 |
|
80 |
The Enclosure Acts was one reason for the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
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81 |
Thomas Malthus believed the population would always outgrow its food supply. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
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82 |
Louis Napoleon became the President of the Second Republic of France after an election in 1848. |
History > European |
02/07/09 |
|
83 |
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 |
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84 |
Henry Cort developed the puddling furance in the 1780s, which allowed pig iron to be refined with coke. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
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85 |
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 |
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86 |
James Nasmyth successfully introduced the steam hammer in 1832, which was the forerunner of the modern pile driver. |
History > European |
02/06/09 |
|
87 |
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 |
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88 |
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 |
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89 |
The Credit Mobilier of Paris was founded by Isaac and Emile Pereire, two young Jewish journalists from Bordeaux. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
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90 |
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held in the Crystal Palace, a building made entirely of glass and iron. |
History > European |
02/05/09 |
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