Showing posts with label 1820s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1820s. Show all posts

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Wednesday, November 24, 1824. Miller Time.

Friedrich Johannes Miller was born in Riedlingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Confederation.

An immigrant to the U.S., he founded Miller Brewing.


He passed away in 1888 at age 63 from cancer.

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Monday, November 11, 2024

Thursday, November 11, 1824. Cruel acts and affairs of the heart.

Three weeks after receiving the petition of an interracial couple the Cherokee General Council passed an act outlawing marriage between "negro slaves and Indians, or whites".

Frankly, I can see why they'd outlaw the one against whites, given the oppression they'd face, but slaves was a bit much.

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Sunday, November 7, 1824. St. Petersburg Flood.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Tuesday, November 2, 1824. The Blackpore Mutiny of 1824.

The Blackpore Mutiny of 1824 took place in which enlisted Indian sepoys mutinied at Blackpore.  The troops were upset about lack of sensitivity to cultural concerns and being transported by sea.  Ultimately the British attacked the camp and 180 of the Indian troops were killed.

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Monday, October 25, 1824. Davy Crockett announces for office.

Friday, October 25, 2024

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Friday, September 25, 1874. The Act of September 1874.

Tilmahtli from the 1531 apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico.

Mexico enacted  The Act of September 25, 1874 making the provisions of the Reform Law constitutional.

The act provided "liberal" reforms basically on the French model, following the results of the bitter Reform War of the late 1850s, and were hostile accordingly to the Church in certain ways.  They provided:

  • The State and the Church were independent of each other.
  • Congress could not enact laws, establishing or prohibiting any religion.
  • Marriage was a civil contract.
  • No religious institution could acquire real property or capital taxes on them, with the sole exception established in Article 27 of the Constitution.
  • A promise to speak the truth and to fulfill contracted obligations replaced a religious oath.
  • No one could be compelled to give personal works without their full consent. 
  • The State could not allow any contract, covenant or agreement that provided for the loss or irrevocable sacrifice of the freedom of man, whether due to work, education or religious vow.
Anti Catholicism as an element of Mexican politics dated back to its earliest independence movements, and like the rise of protestantism in France and England, a desire to appropriate the property and wealth of the Church had a great deal to deal with it, although taking over the Church's obligations to the poor on the other hand were typically left to political theory, save in England where it was simply ignored.  Mexico's first Constitution (1824) provided that it was to perpetually be a Catholic state, but hostility set in by 1857 when Benito Juárez attacked the property rights and possessions of the Church. Many of the figures of the 1854 1855 Revolution of Ayutla had been Freemasons and anticlericists.  

This had caused the supporters of tradition and religion to back the Second Mexican Empire, which of course turned out badly.  Anticlericalism was moderated under Porfirio Díaz, but revived during the Mexican Revolution, save for the followers of Zapata.

Ultimately, this would lead to the Cristero War, but even with its end, the Mexican government remained strongly hostile up until very recent years to the Catholic Church, having an overall impact on the practice of the faith in Mexico.  Open repression mostly ended with the election of Catholic Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940–46) and most of the remaining official repressive statutes ended under  President Carlos Salinas in 1992.

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Tuesday, September 22, 1874. 1874 Hong Kong Typhoon.

Monday, September 16, 2024

Thursday, September 16, 1824. Death of King Louis XVIII.

 


Louis XVIII, King of France, died.

He reigned from 3 May 1814 until 20 March 1815, and then again from 8 July 1815 – 16 September 1824, following the defeat of Napoleon.  He was succeeded by Charles X.

He introduced a parliamentary form of government, payed off French indemnity imposed by the Napoleonic Wars, modernized the French Army.

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Sunday, August 29, 1824. Battle of Gerontas (Ναυμαχία του Γέροντα).

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Sunday, August 29, 1824. Battle of Gerontas (Ναυμαχία του Γέροντα).

The Battle of Gerontas (Ναυμαχία του Γέροντα) was fought in the southeast Aegean, seeing 75 small Greek vessels defeat an Ottoman armada of 100 vessels contributed by various parts of the Ottoman Empire.  The engagement was one of the most significant of the Greek War of Independence, fought from 1821 to 1829, which freed Greece from Ottoman rule.


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Tuesday, August 24, 1824. Shipping Up To Boston with Lafayette.


Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Sunday, August 28, 1774. Mother Seton.

 



St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton SC was born in the Colony of New York, in the city by that name.  Her prominent parents were protestants, as the overwhelming majority of those in the thirteen lower colonies were, with her mother being an Anglican daughter of an Anglican priest.  She married William Magee Seton, a wealthy 25 year old businessman, at when she was 19.  Both she and William were devout members of Trinity Episcopal Church.  Upon the death of her father in law, the family took in their six young in laws which added to their five children.

The undeclared war with Republican France that was fought on the seas between 1798 and 1800 rendered the merchant family bankruptcy, showing as an aside why the later War of 1812 was unpopular in New England, which depended upon trade with England.  In 1803 William was sent to Italy to convalesce due to tuberculosis but died in the British city of Leghorn where he was quarantine.  She was introduced to Catholicism while in Europe by Flippo and Antonia Filicchi, her husband's business partners, and converted in New York on March 14, 1805.  She began to become involved in education and then became a nun, founding a congregation dedicated to the care of children and the poor.

She died in 1821 at age 46.   Two of her daughters predeceased her.  A third, Catherine Seton, entered the Sisters of Mercy and is being considered as a candidate for a cause of Sainthood.

She was canonized in 1975.

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Sunday, August 18, 2024

Wednesday, August 18, 1824. The Mexican General Colonization Law.


Mexico's new government passed its General Colonization Law allowing foreigners to gain title to land that was at least 20 leagues from the border of another country or at least 10 leagues of the coast. 

Colonist would be exempt from taxes for ten years.

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Saturday, August 14, 1824. Return of Lafayette.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Saturday, August 14, 1824. Return of Lafayette.

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette, called by Americans "Layfayette" landed in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, for his "farewell" tour of the United States.  It was the first time he had been in North America in forty years.

He would see all of the then 24 American states and Washington, D.C. over a 13 month, 6,000 mile, journey, traveling with his son, George Washington Lafayette.


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Sunday, August 8, 1824. The Humehume Rebellion.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Sunday, August 8, 1824. The Humehume Rebellion.


Humehume, son of King Kaumualiʻi, of the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau and a mother who was a commoner, lead a rebellion on Kauaʻi against the Kingdom of Hawaii to reestablish its independence.

Humehume had been taken to the United States as a boy, austensibly to obtain an education, but also potentially to place him away from being a rival to the throne to the sons of the king's royal wife.   He served in the War of 1812 as a Marine.

The rebellion failed and he was exiled to Honolulu, where he died of influenza in 1826.

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Friday, August 6, 1824. Battle of Junin

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wednesday, August 4, 1824. The US recognizes the Federation of Central American States.

The United States recognized the independence of the Federation of Central American States, which today comprise Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. 

President James Monroe received Antonio Jose Cañas as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

Unfortunately, the Central American states never managed to get their act together, a misfortune that plagues them to this day.

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Tuesday, August 3, 1824. A League of Land.

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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Tuesday, August 3, 1824. A League of Land.

Mexico granted to Stephen F. Austin's Old 300 colonists Isaac Pennington and David Randon a league of land in the Fort Bend area.

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Friday, May 7, 1824. Coahuila y Tejas

Monday, April 8, 2024

Thursday, April 8, 1824. Empresario Grant to Don Martin de Leon.

Don Martin de Leon to the provincial delegation of San Fernando de Bexar for an Empresario Grant in Texas to settle forty-one Mexican families "of good moral character" and to found the town of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Jesús Victoria.  The Mexican settlement was unusual, as most of the period grants were to colonizing Americans.

De Leon was supportive of the Texas revolution against Mexico, but disdainful of the American colonists in Texas.  As a major person of Spanish heritage, his life became difficult after Texas independence, and he ended up taking his family and livestock to Louisiana.

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Wednesday, April 7, 1824. Premier of Missa Solemnis