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In September 1848 Charlotte's brother, Branwell, died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus exacerbated by heavy drinking, although Charlotte believed his death was due to tuberculosis.
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September and 1848
It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.
These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.
In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.
Denis-Auguste Affre ( 27 September 1793 – 27 June 1848 ), archbishop of Paris, was born at Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, in the department of Aveyron.
In September 1848, Douglass published a letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld, berating him for his conduct, and enquiring after members of his family still held by Auld.
The word literally means corps of homeland defenders and originally referred to the revolutionary army established by Lajos Kossuth and the National Defence Committee of the Revolutionary Hungarian Diet in September 1848 during the Hungarian Revolution.
* September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War ( 1846 – 1848 ).
A Post Office named Flooding Creek opened here on 30 September 1848 being renamed, somewhat belatedly, as Sale on 1 January 1854.
While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( known as the " PRB ") in September 1848 in his family home on Gower Street, off Bedford Square.
* Philip F. Thomas, Maryland governor ( 1848 – 1851 ), United States Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan ( 1860 – 1861 ); born in Easton on September 12, 1810
Some of the discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, on their way home from California to Salt Lake City on September 18, 1848, camped on Deep Creek and also in a cave one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east called Hollow Rock.
The University was established on 26 September 1848 as the College of Bytown by the first Roman Catholic bishop of Ottawa, Joseph-Bruno Guigues.
Albert I ( 13 November 1848 – 26 June 1922 ) was Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois from 10 September 1889 until his death.
September and Charlotte's
Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell.
September and brother
On 3 September 1864, a shed, used for the preparation of nitroglycerin, exploded at the factory in Heleneborg Stockholm, killing five people, including Nobel's younger brother Emil.
His younger brother Isaac was threatened with execution under orders of their first-cousin once-removed Andronikos I Komnenos on September 11, 1185.
* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother
After his brother's death on 30 September / November 1204, Andrew took over the government of the kingdom as his nephew's tutor and he also seized the money his brother had deposited on behalf of the child Ladislaus.
James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.
As his brother Amílcar Cabral had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.
He died 12 September 1500, and was succeeded in his German territories by George as the head of the Albertine line, while George's brother Heinrich became hereditary governor of Friesland.
This was a mortal offence to the Mavromichalis family, and on 9 October 1831 ( 27 September in the Julian Calendar ) Kapodistrias was assassinated by Petrobey's brother Konstantis and son Georgios on the steps of the church of Saint Spyridon in Nafplio.
On September 17, Walker resigned as Secretary of War ; Benjamin left the Attorney General position replace Walker, and Thomas Bragg of North Carolina ( brother of General Braxton Bragg ) took Benjamin ’ s place as Attorney General.
When John's elder brother Richard became king in September 1189, he had already declared his intention of joining the Third Crusade.
When Charles landed in Dalmatia in September 1385, Mary's kingdom was already at war with both Sigismund's brother Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, and the queen mother's cousin, King Tvrtko I of Bosnia.
Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.
Richard's brother, Prince John ( later King John ), came to Wales in September and tried to make peace.
Wenceslaus I ( ; c. 907 – September 28, 935 ), or Wenceslas I, was the duke ( kníže ) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel.
In September 935 ( in older sources 929 ) a group of nobles — allied with Wenceslaus ' younger brother Boleslav — plotted to kill the prince.
Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066, and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York.
* September 24 – Branwell Brontë, painter and poet, brother of novelists Charlotte, Emily and Anne ( b. 1817 )
* September 25 – Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation ( now known as Motorola ).
* September 27 – Fergus Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1889 )
* September 3 – Emil Oskar Nobel, younger brother of Alfred Nobel ( killed in an explosion ) ( b. 1843 )
* September 21 – Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, younger brother of King Louis XIV of France ( d. 1701 )
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