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Sir James Agnew KCMG (2 Oct 1815 #Ballyclare, Co #Antrim-8 Nov 1901 Hobart). 16th Premier Tasmania. Educated London, Paris, Glasgow; Dr then moved to Australia where he practised medicine before politics. Catchphrases: "boider" "goody proctor", "bopsey"! https://t.co/FWVWbM25SU
Born #OnThisDay in 1785: American painter #CharlesBirdKing (1785-1862)
Portrait of Sarah Weston Seaton with her Children Augustine and Julia, ca. 1815
#AmericanArt #ChildrenInArt
Emma by Jane Austen (originally published in 1815). The artist is Arthur Wallis Mills (UK, 1878-1940). “Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.” #BookIllustration #Austenite #Janeite
#Sufi Aliyar Khan, Master of Ceremonies to King of #Delhi (Akbar II) attrib to Lalji 1815. Lalji is reported to being Zoffany’s pupil. A portrait of Aliyar Khan is with BL but I couldn’t find it. Pic Sothebys #SufiThursdays #Art #History @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @ssharadmohhan
Каспар Давид Фридрих. «Крест на побережье Балтийского моря». 1815 г. Старая и Новая Национальные Галереи. Берлин.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher died #otd in 1819. Nicknamed Marshall Vorwärts, he is best known for liberating Germany from Napoleonic rule in 1813, coming to Wellington's aid at Waterloo in 1815, and taking over Napoleonic Twitter in 2020. Oh, and the elephants. #MarshalBlucher
Revolutions of 1848
Following on from the defeat of Napoleon which brought a French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period of turmoil which had lasted from 1789-1815 to a close, the conservatively inclined alliance of powers...
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Η Άντα Μπάιρον Λάβλεϊς (1815-1852) ήταν Αγγλίδα μαθηματικός και η γυναίκα που σχεδίασε το πρώτο πρόγραμμα υπολογιστή στην ιστορία, ενώ θεωρείται και «προφήτης» της σύγχρονης εποχής των υπολογιστών. Κάθε χρόνο, η Βρετανική Εταιρεία Πληροφορικής απονέμει βραβείο με το όνομά της.
À la suite du Congrès de Vienne (1815), le nouveau royaume formé - le Royaume-Uni des Pays-Bas (comprenant la Belgique actuelle) devait être un État tampon pour calmer les aspirations hégémoniques françaises.
D'abord florissante, son économie va connaître une récession en 1820.
8/15は #ナポレオン 誕生日(1769)。
彼はバルジャンと同い年。
バルジャン投獄の日(1796)、彼の戦勝が祝われていた記述が原作にあります。
さらにバルジャン釈放(1815)はワーテルローで敗れた年、
没年は司教様と同じ(1821)です。
バルジャン誕生日は不明ですが、ユゴーにとっては今日かな?
A ball at Almack's in 1815 https://t.co/Gh1dy4Rm9T via @rachelknowles82 #history #Regency #ball
Happy Birthday to the great James Gillray! (1756‒1815)
Doublûres of Characters or striking Resemblances in Phisiognomy.
November 1798
Hand-coloured etching
#JamesGillray #MuseumFromHome #cartoonmuseum #DidYouKnow #FollowAMuseum
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Death is at it again. Illustrations from THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, VOL. 1 (1815) by Thomas Rowlandson.