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An 1827 Act of Parliament arranged for municipal government and administration of justice in the town, providing watching, paving, cleansing, and lighting, with Edinburgh Council responding to the views of Leith townspeople.
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* Vincenzo Bellini's Il Pirata ( Act II: Introduzione ) ( 1827 )
An Act of Parliament was passed on 28 May 1827, creating the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company, and the work of construction and dredging of the River Yare and the Oulton Dyke was completed in 1833.
During 1827 the landlords rejected Huskisson's proposals for a sliding scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby when domestic corn was 52 shillings per quarter or less, the duty would be 34 shillings, 8 pence and when the price increased to 73 shillings the duty decreased to 1 shilling.
This earlier location was on the eastward side of Penge Green, which disappeared as a result of The Penge Enclosure Act, 1827 which enclosed the whole Green.
The scheme originated in 1818, but was opposed by the merchants of Yarmouth, and it was not until 28 May 1827 that an Act of Parliament authorised the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Company, giving then powers to raise £ 100, 000, with an additional £ 50, 000 if required.
Dennis Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1827, from portions of Upper Township.
An Act of Parliament was obtained in 1827 to enable the works and Wisbech contributed £ 30, 000 to the project.
The South Level Drainage and Navigation Act of 1827 created Commissioners who dredged the river from Hermitage Lock to Littleport bridge, and also dredged several of its tributaries.
Another Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 July 1813 which allowed the Conservators to alter the tolls and charge penalties, while the South Level Act of 1827 created Commissioners who had responsibility for the river below Bottisham.
The South Level Commissioners, who had been formed by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1827, took over control of the lower river, and re-routed it to join the new course of the Great Ouse which had been diverted into a cut to the west of its original route.
By an Act of New York State Legislature they passed that Hammond was officially a town, this happened on March 30, 1827.
An intensely built-up 23 acre ( 9. 5 hectares ) site was earmarked for redevelopment by an Act of Parliament in 1825, with construction commencing in May 1827.
The Rideau Canal Act of February 1827, by the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada expropriated 104 acres of Nicholas Sparks ' land, not returned to him until 1847 or late 1849.
This Act was passed in 1826, and he was appointed Commissioner of Valuation in 1827, but did not start work until 1830 when the new 6 " maps became available from the Ordnance survey and which he was required to use as provided for by statute.
This was later raised to £ 18, 000, and the Act of Parliament, which authorised the construction of a canal that followed Hammett's plans, was obtained on 28 May 1827.
* August 14 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician ; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act ( b. 1827 )
This section replaces sections 1 to 4 of the 7 & 8 Geo 4 c 18 ( 1827 ) ( An Act to prohibit the setting of spring guns, mantraps and other engines calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm ).
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The importation of slaves was banned in 1792, but the phased emancipation of over 800 resident slaves did not take place until 1827, some six years before legislation to ban slavery in the colonies was passed by the British Parliament.
Although McAdam was paid £ 5, 000 for his Bristol Turnpike Trust work and made " Surveyor-General of Metropolitan Roads " in 1820, professional jealousy cut a £ 5, 000 grant for expenses from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to £ 2, 000 in 1827.
Benefit of clergy was abolished in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by two acts in 1823, and Parliament formally abolished benefit of clergy in 1827.
* George Villiers ( 1759 – 1827 ), English Member of Parliament for Warwick
Arbuthnot sat as Member of Parliament for East Looe between 1795 and 1796, for Eye between 1809 and 1812, for Orford between 1812 and 1818, for St Germans between 1818 and 1827, for St Ives between 1828 and 1830 and for Ashburton between 1830 and 1831.
Nisbet-Hamilton was returned to Parliament for Ipswich in 1827, a seat he held until 1831 and again briefly in 1835.
Sir Richard Church KCH, CB () ( 1784-March 1873 ), was a military officer in the British Army and general in the Greek army during the last stages of the Greek Revolution after 1827 and elected politician in Greece, member of the Greek Parliament in 1843, member of the Greek Senate.
* Mock election in the King's Bench Prison: In July 1827, the inmates of the King's Bench Prison, in Borough, South London, organised a fantastical mock hustings, to elect an MP to represent " Tenterden " ( a slang name for the prison ) in Parliament.
Francis Ormond ( 23 November 1827 – 5 May 1889 ) was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist, member of the Parliament of Victoria and philanthropist in the areas of education and religion.
Charles Dudley Robert Ward ( 9 July 1827 – 30 August 1913 ), known as Dudley Ward, was a New Zealand judge and a Member of Parliament.
The canal was authorised by Parliament in 1827 and opened in 1834.
* Dudley Ward ( judge ) ( 1827 – 1913 ), with a full name of Charles Dudley Robert Ward, New Zealand judge and Member of Parliament
Hugh Macdonald, PC ( May 4, 1827 – February 28, 1899 ) was a lawyer, judge and member of the First Canadian Parliament.
He attacked the whole constitution of the Royal College of Surgeons, and obtained so much support from among the general body of the profession, now roused to a sense of the abuses he exposed, that in 1827 a petition to Parliament resulted in a return being ordered of the public money granted to it.
He was Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs, in Fife, from 1819 to 1826, Harwich, Essex, England, from 1827 to 1830, Buteshire in 1830 and from 1833 to 1842, and for Portarlington, Queen's County, Ireland, from 1831 to 1832.
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1827, and the next year entered Parliament for the borough of Bletchingley in Surrey, serving until 1830.
Built in 1827, the Old Parliament House is the oldest existing government building in Singapore.
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The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Ferdinand arranged his share to be paid on as a pension until Beethoven died in March 1827.
In response they made him a small payment, arranged for the copying of the orchestral parts, and at some point in the latter half of 1827 gave the work an unofficial play-through ( the exact date and the conductor are unknown ) – though it was considered too long and difficult for the amateur orchestra of the conservatory.
This is the only movement from his sonatas that Beethoven arranged for orchestra, and was played during Beethoven's own funeral march in 1827.
In 1827, to test the validity of roundarm bowling, three All-England v Sussex roundarm trial matches were arranged, but no immediate decision was made about legalisation.
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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.
John Guard established a shore station at Te Awaiti in 1827 for right whales.
Prussian diplomats discussed granting the Prussian Rhineland ( predominantly Catholic ) to Anton ( a Catholic ) in exchange for Lutheran Saxony in 1827, but nothing came of these talks.
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 ).
In France, Charles Kemble initiated an enthusiasm for Shakespeare ; and leading members of the Romantic movement such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas saw his 1827 Paris performance of Hamlet, particularly admiring the madness of Harriet Smithson's Ophelia.
* John Ford House ( 1827 – 1904 ), American legislator who, from 1875 to 1883, served as Democratic representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district
He became one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and his tour of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support for Jackson from Crawford.
But before this he received a Austro-Hungarian patent ( license ) for his propeller ( 1827 ).
Fourah Bay College, established in 1827, rapidly became a magnet for English-speaking Africans on the west coast.
He gave instructions for disposal of his assets in his Will and after his death, his estate, possessions and slaves were sold off in public auctions starting in 1827.
Opposition to Masonry was taken up by the churches as a sort of religious crusade, and it also became a local political issue in Western New York, where, early in 1827, the citizens in many mass meetings resolved to support no Mason for public office.
* May 25, 1827 – Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru receives a French patent for the invention of the first fountain pen with a replaceable ink cartridge.
An infinitesimal formula for an infinitely tall, unit impulse delta function ( infinitesimal version of Cauchy distribution ) explicitly appears in an 1827 text of Augustin Louis Cauchy.
D ' Urville investigated the passage for several days in 1827, and damaged his ship passing through it.
" He purchased fossils from her for the newly opened New York Lyceum of Natural History in 1827.
An etching of the Hill, crowned by the mass of the Palazzo del Quirinale, from a series I Sette Colli di Roma antica e moderna published in 1827 by Luigi Rossini ( 1790-1857 ): His view, from the roof of the palazzo near the Trevi Fountain that now houses the Accademia di San Luca, substituted an imaginary foreground garden for the repetitious roofscape.
Though a Whig, he accepted ( 29 April 1827 ) the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich.
In 1827, Sequoyah had led a delegation of Old Settlers to Washington, D. C. to negotiate for the exchange of Arkansas land for land in Indian Territory.
Iraq, for example, had suffered famines in 1801, 1827 and 1831.
Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.
The most remarkable Sardinian figure of the Middle Ages, Eleanor of Arborea, was co-ruler of that region in the late 14th century ; she laid the foundations for the laws that remained valid until 1827, the Carta de Logu.
In 1827 Ippolito Rosellini, considered the founder of Egyptology in Italy, went to Paris for a year in order to improve his knowledge of the method of decipherment proposed by Champollion.
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.
From 1827 the society held fêtes at the Chiswick garden, and from 1833, shows with competitive classes for flowers and vegetables.
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