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In 1807 Dumont was admitted to the Naval Academy at Brest where he presented himself as a timid young man, very serious and studious, little interested in amusements and much more interested in studies than in military matters.
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His cataloguing of 3222 stars was refined in 1807 by Friedrich Bessel, the father of modern astrometry.
It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.
He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.
In 1807 he was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England.
Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.
The condition was first documented in 1807 by a livestock observationist named George Culley.
Use of modern refining techniques was especially important because the British Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire ( but slavery itself remained legal until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ).
From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.
Clausewitz was held prisoner in France from 1807 to 1808.
Thus he sought a position in astronomy, and in 1807 was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen, a post he held for the remainder of his life.
For example, the asteroid 4 Vesta was discovered in this constellation in 1807.
The Royal Montreal Curling Club, the oldest established sports club still active in North America, was established in 1807.
Cavalry was important at Blenheim ( 1704 ), Rossbach ( 1757 ), Eylau and Friedland ( 1807 ), remaining significant throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
The greatest cavalry charge of modern history was at the 1807 battle of Eylau, when the entire 11, 000-strong French cavalry reserve, led by Maréchal Murat, launched a huge charge on and through the Russian infantry lines.
The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).
In 1807, Thomas Young was possibly the first to use the term " energy " instead of vis viva, in its modern sense.
Ownership was in question and legislation was passed for acquisition by condemnation in 1807 and then ceded to the United States in 1808.
First proposed in 1807, it was under construction from 1817 to 1825 and officially opened on October 26, 1825.
Theodor Bischoff ( 1807 – 1882 ), was a strong opponent of Darwinism.
1807 and admitted
After studying law at the Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, he was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1807.
After the Battle of Friedland in 1807, because of their distinguished performance, Russia's Pavlovsk Regiment were allowed to keep their mitre caps and were admitted to the Imperial Guard.
He graduated from Union College in 1806, became secretary to New York Governor Daniel D. Tompkins in 1807, studied law in Albany, New York and was admitted to the bar in 1809, commencing practice in Canandaigua, New York.
" He was appointed to negotiate a treaty with American envoys James Monroe and William Pinkney, was admitted to the Privy Council on 27 August 1806, and on the 15th of October entered the Ministry of All the Talents led by Lord Grenville as Lord Privy Seal, retiring with the rest of his colleagues in March 1807.
He completed his studies in 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1807.
Moving back to Taunton, he was admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1807 and began practising.
Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and practiced in Ballston Spa, New York.
He was admitted to the bar in 1807 and practiced law.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1807.
He was admitted to the New Castle County bar in December 1807, and began a practice in Wilmington.
He later served as Master of the Horse from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1806.
1807 and Naval
The islands were not officially named until Captain Charles J. Johnston of the Royal Naval ship sighted them on December 14, 1807.
After the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the British Naval Squadron was stationed in Freetown to intercept and seize slave ships participating in the illegal slave trade.
Between 1807 and 1831 ( 1831 being the year of publication on the subject of Naval Timber ) he periodically traveled to Europe, sometimes seeking scientific enlightenment or agricultural or economic advice, as well as attending to business matters.
* Thomas Louis ( 1758 – 1807 ), British Royal Naval officer
1807 and Academy
Site of the Royal Bavarian Central Forest Academy ( Koniglich Bayerischen Central Forstlehranstalt ), established in 1807, " made famous by the researches of Professor Dr Ernst Ebermayer.
For 100 years of its history, Phillips Academy shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded on Phillips Hill in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity.
He communicated more than one hundred and fifty papers to the French Academy of Sciences, edited the Connoissance de temps ( 1759 – 1774 ), and again ( 1794 – 1807 ), and wrote the concluding two volumes of the 2nd edition of Montucla's Histoire des mathématiques ( 1802 ).
Aged twenty-one ( 1807 ) Haydon exhibited, for the first time, at the Royal Academy, The Repose in Egypt, which was bought by Thomas Hope the year after for the Egyptian Room at his townhouse in Duchess Street.
In 1807 he sent to the Royal Academy the well-known portrait of William Blake, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which was engraved in line by Luigi Schiavonetti, and later etched by William Bell Scott.
He then returned to London and exhibited pictures at the Royal Academy for some years from 1804, but from 1807 onwards devoted himself mainly to sculpture.
Employed in 1807 in the manuscript department of the imperial library, he passed to the chair of Greek in university of Rouen in 1809, entered the Academy of Inscriptions in 1815, taught Hebrew and Aramaic in the Collège de France from 1819, and finally in 1838 became professor of Persian in the School of Living Oriental Languages, on the death of Silvestre de Sacy.
In 1807 he entered the Royal Academy School, studying under Henry Fuseli, and he also studied privately for a year under Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose influence for some time dominated his art.
He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in September 1807.
In 1806 he did return and in 1807 was again received into the Academy ; and in 1810, on the refusal of Cardinal Fesch, was made Archbishop of Paris.
He exhibited three oil pictures at the Royal Academy in 1807.
On January 30, 1807, twenty-three " freeholders " of Geneva petitioned the Regents of the State of New York for the incorporation of Geneva Academy.
During the years 1801 – 1807, he studied in Italy, then returned to Vienna where he became member of the Academy on 8 February 1815 and remained till his death in 1818.
In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule ; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship.
The academies he joined were: the Academy of Science and Literature ( joined in 1807 ), Academy of Science ( 1808 ), the Academy of Literature History ( 1810 ), the Academy of Agriculture and Forestry ( 1818 ), the Swedish Academy ( 1819 ), the Scientific society in Uppsala ( 1820 ) and the Academy of Music ( 1822 ).
In 1807 he was appointed teacher of mathematics at Lund University, in 1812 appointed professor of botany and natural sciences, and was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1817, and of the Swedish Academy in 1831.
De Wint first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807, and the following year at the Gallery of Associated Artists in Watercolours.
On his return to Milan he fell in with the circle of progressive young artists that formed the Cameretta Portiana He became assistant secretary, and then secretary ( 1802 – 1807 ) of the Brera Academy, whose collection of paintings, the Pinacoteca he essentially founded.
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