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* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
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In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
* Brazilian War of Independence ( 1822 – 1824 ): Series of military campaigns that had as objective to cement Brazilian sovereignty and end Portuguese resistance.
A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.
In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").
Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.
* 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.
1824 and Greek
The big European powers saw the war of Greek independence, with its accounts of Turkish atrocities, in a romantic light ( see, for example, the 1824 painting Massacre of Chios by Eugène Delacroix ).
In 1824, the Classical scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne promised to prepare a new literal translation of the Greek text for Champollion's use ; Champollion promised in return an analysis of all the points at which the three texts seemed to differ.
The period of British rule was a prosperous period for Corfu because the Greek language became official, new roads were built, the water supply system was improved and the first Greek University was founded in 1824.
Clay supported the Greek independence revolutionaries in 1824 who wished to separate from the Ottoman Empire, an early move into European affairs.
1733 – 1824 ), Greek mathematician and an Nautical science expert, whose family was from Heraklion ( Candia ), Crete.
Both London and Paris hosted powerful philhellenic committees, supported by prominent and wealthy personalities, such as the romantic poet Lord Byron in England ( who died fighting for the Greek cause in 1824 ) and the writers Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo in France.
Eugène Delacroix's 1824 painting The Massacre at Chios and numerous publications brought the Greek cause to the attention of Americans.
A notable high style example of the village ’ s Greek Revival architecture is the 1824 Bronson House, built of locally quarried sandstone blocks.
His first major civil commission came when he won a competition to design the new Royal Manchester Institution ( 1824 – 35 ) for the promotion of Literature, Science & Arts ( now part of the Manchester Art Gallery ), in Greek revival style, the only public building by Barry in that style.
Among his works on Greek literature the chief are Die Äschyleische Trilogie ( 1824, 6 ), Der epische Zyklus oder die Homerischen Geschichte ( 2 vols.
Passow's great work was his Handworterbuch der griechischen Sprache ( 1819 – 1824 ) (" Dictionary of the Greek Language "), originally a revision of Johann Gottlob Schneider's lexicon, which appeared in the fourth edition ( 1831 ) as an independent work, without Schneider's name.
The second phase in the development of American Greek revival saw the pupils of Latrobe create a monumental national style under the patronage of banker and hellenophile Nicholas Biddle, including such works as the Second Bank of the United States by William Strickland ( 1824 ), Biddle's home " Andalusia " by Thomas U. Walter ( 1835 – 1836 ), and Girard College also by Walter ( 1833 – 47 ).
Among his numerous contributions to Greek literature may be mentioned, Hephaestion's Encheiridion ( 1810 ); Poëtae Graeci minores ( 1814 – 1820 ); Stobaeus ' Florilegium ( 1822 ); Herodotus, with variorum notes ( 1824 ); Suidas ' Lexicon ( 1834 ); Etymologicum Magnum ( I848 ).
He gained the Browne medal for Greek verse four times, and the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse twice in 1823 and 1824.
In 1824, shortly after Howe was certified to practice medicine, fired by enthusiasm for the Greek Revolution, by the example of his idol Lord Byron, and fleeing the memory of an unhappy love affair, Howe sailed for Greece, where he joined the Greek army as a surgeon.
* Fasti Hellenici, the Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece from the 55th to the 124th Olympiad ( 1824 – 1851 ), including dissertations on points of Greek history and Scriptural chronology ; and
The modern town of Eretria was established in 1824, after Greek independence, and is now a popular beachside resort.
Lack of funds however forced its disbandment soon after, and it was not until July 1824 that regular units were reformed, under the Greek Colonel Panagiotis Rodios.
1824 and War
* 1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
* 1864 – Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War ( b. 1824 )
When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
In 1826, British India gained a common border with China after the British wrested control of Manipur and Assam from the Burmese, following the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824 – 1826.
* 1824 – The Dutch sign the Masang Agreement, temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War in West Sumatra.
Political rivalry, namely, Calhoun's political ambitions as well as those of William H. Crawford, the Secretary of the Treasury, over the pursuit of the 1824 presidency also complicated Calhoun's tenure as War Secretary.
William Barracks, renamed barracks Major Sabbe after the First World War and named for the 1990 Arts Square, dates from 1824 – 1827, at the time of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
* William Weatherford, also known as Red Eagle ( c. 1781 – 1824 ), led the Creek War offensive against the United States
While little changed in ranchero life, the Mexican War of Independence resulted in the secularization of the missions with the re-distribution of their lands, and a new system of land grants under the Mexican Federal Law of 1824.
* Johnson, Julia Chinn and their daughters are featured as characters in Eric Flint's alternate history novels, 1812: The Rivers of War and 1824: The Arkansas War.
Former U. S. Secretary of War and 1824 U. S. Presidential candidate William Harris Crawford, as well as famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis during his youth ; his family owned lands along the Broad River in The Broad River Valley located in Wilkes ( now Oglethorpe ) County which borders Elbert County.
Lafayette County was formed on October 15, 1827 and named in honor of Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War and who toured the US in 1824 / 25 upon the 50th anniversary of the founding of the nation.
* Thomas Gamble Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.
* Thomas G. Pitcher, ( 1824 – 1895 ), Union general in the Civil War and was 1845 graduate of the United States Military Academy later serving as Superintendent from 1866-1871.
The town was first settled around 1816, and was founded in 1824 by Henry Frank Sr, a Revolutionary War Veteran from Philadelphia, Pa.
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