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* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.
* 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.
It was Pierre-Simon Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ) who introduced a general version of the theorem and used it to approach problems in celestial mechanics, medical statistics, reliability, and jurisprudence.
One Pipiolo leader from the south, Ramón Freire, rode in and out of the presidency several times ( 1823 – 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830 ) but could not sustain his authority.
During the second era ( 7th – 9th editions, 1827 – 1901 ), the Britannica was managed by the Edinburgh publishing firm, A & C Black.
In August 1827, against his mother's wishes, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler ( 1802 – 1882 ), a famous Irish beauty.
Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).
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The palace complex was substantially remodelled once again, this time by Sir John Soane, between 1824 and 1827.
The Fredericton campus features two sites of national historic importance, both designated as National Historic Sites of Canada: the 1827 Sir Howard Douglas Hall ( Arts Building ) and the 1851 William Brydone Jack Observatory.
On 20 August 1827, the British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean ( i. e .. commander of " Blue " Squadron ), Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington ( 1770 – 1851 ), veteran of 44 years at sea and a popular hero for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar, received his government's instructions regarding enforcement of the treaty.
These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.
Valentine BakerValentine Baker ( also known as Baker Pasha ) ( 1827 – 1887 ), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker.
Sir Sandford Fleming, ( January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915 ) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor.
* Sir Francis Blake, 3rd Baronet, of Twizell Castle, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1820-1826 and 1827 – 1834
The couple eventually had a son, named Edward Fox FitzGerald ( 10 October 1794-25 January 1863 ), married on 6 November 1827 to Jane Paul ( died 2 November 1891 ), and two daughters, Pamela FitzGerald ( 1795 / 1796-25 November 1869 ), married on 21 November 1820 Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet ( died 26 January 1849 ), and Lucy Louisa FitzGerald ( 1798-September 1826 ), married on 5 September 1825 Capt.
The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac ( 1827 – 1840 ), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century.
This same building had been converted into the first cottage hospital providing free medical services by Sir Astley Cooper in 1827.
Sir William Edward Parry ( 19 December 1790 – 8 or 9 July 1855 ) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer, who in 1827 attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole.
William Beasley bought the manor and in 1815 and sold them in 1827 to Sir Edward Blount, 8th Baronet, of Sodington, Worcestershire.
There being no settlement from which the station could take its name, it was named in honour of Sir Harry, who was later to have another nearby station – Calvert – named after him ; he had been born Harry Calvert, and took the surname Verney in order to inherit his late cousin's estates in 1827.
Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt ( 14 October 1827 – 1 October 1904 ) was a British lawyer, journalist and Liberal statesman.
* Stansky, Peter ( 2008 ) " Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon ( 1827 – 1904 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, accessed 17 February 2008
In 1827, Dr John Lee, an astronomer, inherited the house from the unmarried Revd Sir George Lee and during his ownership, the British Meteorological Society, now the Royal Meteorological Society was founded in the library in 1850.
The present Verney family who still live in the later red brick south wing, are in fact the descendants of Sir Harry Calvert ( 2nd Baronet ) who inherited the house in 1827.
* Sir John Trotter Bethune, 2nd Baronet ( 1827 – 1894 ) ( established claim to earldom of Lindsay in 1878 )
* Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet ( 6 November 1753 – 7 February 1827 )-British art patron and amateur painter.
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