Karl Schenk - Affairs (1866 - 1870) Political Department (1871) Department of Home Affairs (1872) Department of Finance (1872) Department of Home Affairs (1873) Political Department (1874) Department of Railway and Trade (1875 - 1877) Political Department (1878) Department of Home Affairs (1879 - 1884) Political Department (1885) Department of Home Affairs (1886 - 1895) He was president of Switzerland six times in 1865, 1871, 1874, 1878, 1885 and 1893. Predecessor: Jakob Stämpfli Successor: Eduard Müller.
Karl Felix Halm - of some of the speeches of Cicero in the Haupt and Sauppe series, with notes and introductions, were very successful. He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus (4th ed., 1883); Rhetores Latini minores (1863); Quintilian (1868); Sulpicius Severus (1866); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore (1867); Salvianus (1877) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (1878). He was also an enthusiastic collector of autographs. See articles by W Christ and G Laubmann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie and by C Bursian in Biographisches Jahrbuch; and JE Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, iii. 195 (1908). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karl August von Hardenberg - political reorganization. The military system was completely reformed, serfdom was abolished, municipal institutions were fostered, the civil service was thrown open to all classes, and great attention was devoted to the educational needs of every section of the community. When at last the time came to put these reforms to the test, after the Moscow campaign of 1812, it was Hardenberg who, supported by the influence of the noble Queen Louise, determined Frederick William to take advantage of General Yorck's loyal disloyalty and declare against France. He was rightly regarded by German patriots as the statesman who had done most to encourage the spirit of national independence; and immediately after he had signed the first peace of Paris he was raised to the rank of prince (June 3, 1814) in recognition.
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - correspondence with Rahel in 6 vols. (1874-75); and with Carlyle (1892). His selected writings appeared in 19 vols. in 1871-76. There is also an extensive literature dealing with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense; see especially her husband's Rahel, ein Buch des Andenkens (3 vols., 1834) Aus Rahels Herzens-leben (1877); E Schmidt-Weissenfels, Rahel und ihre Zeit (1857); Briefwechsel zwischen Karoline von Humboldt, Rahel und Varnhagen von Ense (1896); O Berdrow, Rahel Varnhagen (1900). Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Karl Joseph Simrock - 1839 and 1867. His best contribution to scholarship was his Handbuch der deutschen Mythologie (1853-1855). At an early stage of his career Simrock took a high place among students of Shakespeare by his Quellen des Shakespeare in Novellen, Märchen und Sagen (1831); and afterwards he translated Shakespeare's poems and a considerable number of his dramas. The large number of editions through which Simrock's translations from the Middle High German have passed (the Nibelungenlied more than forty) bear witness to their popularity. An edition of his Ausgewählte Werke in 12 vols. has been published by G Klee (1907). See N Hocker, Karl Simrock, sein Leben und seine Werke (1877); H Düntzer, "Erinnerungen an Karl Simrock," in Monatsschrift für Westdeutschland (1877), and E Schroder's article in Allg. deutsche Biographie. Reference This entry incorporates.
Karl Kraus - journalist. Born in to a Jewish family in Bohemia, he moved to Vienna, Austria in 1877. His first articles were published in 1892, the year in which he began to attend university. Breaking off his studies in 1896 to devote himself wholly to writing, he founded the newspaper Die Fackel ("The Torch"), in 1899, and continued to direct and publish it until his death. He irritated Freud, who in 1910 wrote to a friend 'he is a mad half-wit'..
Kentucky Derby - winner of the very first race was Aristides in front of a crowd of 10,000 people on May 17, 1875. The speed record for the race is 1 minute 59 2/5 seconds, set by Secretariat in 1973. Year Winner 1875 Aristides 1876 Vagrant 1877 Baden Baden 1878 Day Star 1879 Lord Murphy 1880 Fonso 1881 Hindoo 1882 Apollo 1883 Leonatus 1884 Buchanan 1885 Joe Cotton 1886 Ben Ali 1887 Montrose 1888 Macbeth II 1889 Spokane 1890 Riley 1891 Kingman 1892 Azra 1893 Lookout 1894 Chant 1895 Halma 1896 Ben Brush 1897 Typhoon II 1898 Plaudit 1899 Manuel 1900 Lieutenant Gibson 1901 His Eminence 1902 Alan-a-Dale 1903 Judge Himes 1904 Elwood 1905 Agile 1906 Sir Huon 1907 Pink Star 1908 Stone Street 1909 Wintergreen 1910 Donau 1911 Meridian 1912 Worth 1913 Donerail.
Kentucky Oaks - Oaks was fashioned in the image of the English Oaks at Epsom Downs. The distance of that first running of the Oaks was 1 ½ miles and A.B. Lewis & Company's Vinaigrette was the winner. She earned a winning purse of $1,175 and was timed over the 12-furlong distance in 2:39 ¾. The victory by Vinaigrette launched a strong tradition for the Oaks, which - like the Derby - has been renewed each year without interruption since its inaugural running. Year Winner 1875 Vinaigrette 1876 Necy Hale 1877 Felicia 1878 Belle of Nelson 1879 Liahtunah 1880 Longitude 1881 Lucy May 1882 Katie Creel 1883 Vera 1884 Modesty 1885 Lizzie Dwyer 1886 Pure Rye 1887 Florimore 1888 Ten Penny 1889 Jewel Ban 1890 English Lady 1891 Miss Hawkins 1892 Miss Dixie 1893.
Kees van Dongen - Kees van Dongen (January 26, 1877 - May 28, 1968), was a Dutch painter born in Delfshaven. He was one of Les Fauves, who lived and worked in France most of his life, and died in Monte Carlo in 1968..
Kentish Town - buildings to vanish. Between the availability of public transport to it from London, and its urbanisation, it was a popular resort. Large amounts of land were purchased to build the railway, which can still be seen today. Kentish Town was a prime site for development as the Kentish Town Road was the main route for the growing city of London to the North. 1877 saw the beginning of mission work in the area as it was then poor. The mission first held their services outside but as their funding increased they built a mission house, chapel, and vicarage. In 1912 the Church of St. Silas the Martyr was finally erected and consecrated, and by December of that year it became a parish in its own right. It can still be seen.
Kent, New York - from Frederick in 1817, as which it was incorporated in 1795 when the township boundaries were realigned. A small portion of Philipstown was transferred to Kent in 1877. The major population center of the township is Lake Carmel, a settlement around an artificial lake developed in the 1920s. Historically the population centers had been Farmer's Mills and Ludingtonville, little of which remain. The town is part of the Carmel Central School District and is served by the Carmel Post Office under the name Kent Lakes (another community upstate now having a post office called Kent). Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 111.8 km² (43.2 mi²). 105.2 km² (40.6 mi²) of it is land and 6.6 km² (2.5 mi²) of it is water..
Kingdom of Romania - Romania Kingdom of Romania Romania during World War II Communist Romania Romania since 1989 From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a "personal union" of two principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. After the defeat of the great empires of Central and Eastern Europe in World War I, "Greater Romania" added Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina. However, "Greater Romania" was not to survive World War II. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Unification and monarchy 1.1 Timeline 2 The interbellum years 2.2 Timeline Unification and monarchy The 1859 ascendancy of Alexander John Cuza as prince of both Moldavia and Wallachia under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire united an identifiably Romanian nation under a single ruler. In 1862 the two principalities were.
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1862) William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam (1862) Prince Louis of Hesse and the Rhine, later Grand Duke Louis IV, son-in-law of Queen Victoria (1862) Grand Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1862) Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, later Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria (1863) Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, Colonial and Home Secretary (1863) George Granville William Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1864) George William Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury (1864) Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne (1864) John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland (1865) Harry George Poulett, 4th Duke of Cleveland (1865) King Louis I of Portugal (1865) King Christian IX of Denmark, father-in-law of the Prince of Wales (1865) Grand Duke Louis.
Komura Jutaro - was born in Hiuga. He graduated from Harvard in 1877, and entered the foreign office in Tokyo in 1884. He served as chargé d'affaires in Beijing, as Japanese minister in Seoul, in Washington, in St Petersburg, and in Beijing (during the Boxer trouble), earning in every post a high reputation for diplomatic ability. In 1901 he received the portfolio of foreign affairs, and held it throughout the course of the negotiations with Russia and the subsequent war (1904-5), being finally appointed by his sovereign to meet the Russian plenipotentiaries at Portsmouth, and subsequently the Chinese representatives in Beijing, on which occasions the Portsmouth treaty of September 1905 and the Peking treaty of November in the same year were concluded. For these services, and for negotiating the second Anglo-Japanese alliance, he received.
January 4 - Georgia. Births 1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer (†1736) 1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (†1774) 1785 - Jakob Grimm, philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm (†1863) 1809 - Louis Braille, teacher, developed writing system for the blind (†1852) 1822 - Georg Büchmann, philologist (†1884) 1838 - Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), circus performer, entertainer (†1883) 1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, sculptor (†1919) 1896 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (†1969) 1914 - Jane Wyman, actress 1930 - Don Shula, American football coach 1932 - Carlos Saura, director 1935 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion 1937 - Dyan Cannon, actress 1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer 1960 - Michael Stipe, singer for R.E.M Deaths 1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal 1821 - Elizabeth Ann.
January 8 - of New Orleans Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). 1856 - Borax is discovered (John Veatch). 1867 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia. 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana). 1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine. 1894 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage. 1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule. 1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading.
January 14 - talk show from NBC to CBS. 1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in the Ukraine. 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal. 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge..
James Scarlett Abinger - his title from the Surrey estate he had bought in 1813. The qualities which brought him success at the bar were not equalled on the bench; he had a reputation for unfairness, and complaints were made about his domineering attitude towards juries. Lord Abinger was twice married (the second time only six months before his death), and by his first wife (d. 1829) had three sons and two daughters, the title passing to his eldest son Robert (1794-1861). His second son, General Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799-1871), leader of the heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava, is dealt with in a separate article; and his elder daughter, Mary, married John, Baron Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden (Lady Stratheden and Campbell) (d. 1860). Sir Philip Anglin Scarlett (d. 1831), Lord Abinger's.
James J. Hill - and won quite a few. Particularly of note was his contract to provide wood fuel to a US fort. These experiences made him quite the valuable employee, and by 1865, Hill was worming his way up through the business world. If there is one thing to be said in favor of James J. Hill, it is this: he did absolutely nothing by halves. Because of his previous experiences in shipping and fuel supply, Hill was able to aggressively enter both the coal and steamboat businesses. In 1870 he entered the steamboat business; by 1872 he had monopolized it, by way of a merger (with Norman Kittson). In 1867 Hill entered the coal business; by 1874 it had expanded five times over; by 1877 James Hill had virtually monopolized the Anthracite coal.
James Dewar - of Edinburgh, where he graduated. Later he became professor at the University of Cambridge 1875 and was a member of the Royal Institution 1877. He developed a chemical formula for benzene and performed extensive work in spectroscopy for more than 25 years. In 1891 he discovered a process to produce liquid oxygen in industrial quantities. He developed an insulating bottle, Dewar flask, still named after him, to study low temperature gas phenomena. He also used this bottle to transport liquid gases like hydrogen 1898. In 1905 he observed that cold charcoal could produce a vacuum. This technique was quite useful for experiments in atomic physics. He is credited as the inventor of the vacuum flask. Along with Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, developed the explosive whose common name is cordite. He died.
