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This Week In History: February 9-15

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February 9, 1849: New Roman Republic established.

February 10, 1840: Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

February 11, 1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.

February 12, 1816: The oldest working opera house in Europe, the Teatro di San Carlo, is destroyed by fire.

February 13, 1867: Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels’ primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.

February 14, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.

February 15, 1804: The Serbian Revolution begins.

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This Week In History: February 2-8

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February 2, 1812: Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.

February 3, 1783: Spain recognizes United States independence.

February 4, 1794: The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.

February 5, 1810: The siege of Cadiz begins.

February 6, 1819: Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

February 7, 1856: The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation anywhere in the world providing for elections by secret ballot.

February 8, 1693: The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by William III and Mary II.

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This Week In History: January 26-February 1

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January 26, 1788: The British First Fleet sails into Port Jackson to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement in Australia.

January 27, 1785: The University of Georgia is founded, becoming the first public university in the US.

January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is first published in the UK.

January 29, 1856: Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

January 30, 1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to north coast of Wales is opened.

January 31, 1747: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

February 1, 1793: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

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This Week In History: January 19-25

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January 19, 1812: After a ten day siege, the Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

January 20, 1783: Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American War of Independence.

January 21, 1793: Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.

January 22, 1506: The first contingent of Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

January 23, 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded an M.D., becoming the first female doctor in the US.

January 24, 1857: The University of Calcutta is founded.

January 25, 1858: Queen Victoria’s daughter Victoria marries Friedrich of Prussia, using Felix Mendelssohn’s The Wedding March as part of the ceremony.

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This Week In History: January 12-18

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January 12, 1808: The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society (a former Scottish learned society) is held in Edinburgh.

January 13, 1785: John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later renamed The Times.

January 14, 1814: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania in the Treaty of Kiel.

January 15, 1759: The British Museum opens.

January 16, 1809: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

January 17, 1773: Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sale below the Antarctic Circle.

January 18, 1788: The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.

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This Week In History: January 5-11

January 5, 2015January 4, 2015 Cora Lee

This new year brings a new feature to And Then He Kissed Her! Welcome to This Week In History, a look each Monday at what was happening in the world before we inhabited it. We’ll focus mostly on the Georgian, Regency, Victorian eras in the UK and geographic areas related to it. Don’t be surprised to see the occasional event from the Middle Ages or World War I, though–events separated by large expanses of time can still affect each other. Plus, I adore history from many time periods 😀

January 6, 1781: The British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.

January 7, 1785: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon.

January 8, 1815: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans.

January 9, 1806: Admiral Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

January 10, 1810: Napoleon divorces his first wife, Josephine.

January 11, 1805: The Michigan Territory is created (yay!).