1853). A Colt with such lavish decoration and gold inlay is extremely rare. 1840 - Guns begin to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use.

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

In 1836 they threw their support behind Andrew Jackson's successor, Martin Van Buren. 1840: Whigs: William Henry Harrison In 1840 the Whig Party ran a "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign in which ...

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To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. In February of 1840, an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Many ...

Ft. Atkinson, IOWA (KWWL) - Over 900 students are at the Fort Atkinson Preserve, to learn what a 'school day' looked like in the 1840s. 'School Day' is a long-standing tradition, that teaches ...

Smith, Bruce P. 2007. English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay. Law and History Review, Vol. 25, Issue. 3, p. 593.

It was a bizarre scene. Now, seven years on, Bolivia have taken things a step further by choosing to play games in El Alto; in fact, about 1,840 steps further if we’re counting in feet.