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  2. List of sovereign states in the 1850s - Wikipedia

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    Germany – German Empire (to November 29, 1850) Goust – Republic of Goust; State of Buenos Aires (from September 11, 1852) Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (from January 11, 1851) Tavolara – Kingdom of Tavolara

  3. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  4. 1850s - Wikipedia

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    The 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War.

  5. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Similar is Balthasart with standard parallels at 50°N/S and Tobler’s world in a square with standard parallels around 55.66°N/S. c. 1850: Central cylindrical: Cylindrical Perspective (unknown) Practically unused in cartography because of severe polar distortion, but popular in panoramic photography, especially for architectural scenes.

  6. Former countries in Europe after 1815 - Wikipedia

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    The scope of this article begins in 1815, after a round of negotiations about European borders and spheres of influence were agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna. [3] The Congress of Vienna was a nine-month, pan-European meeting of statesmen who met to settle the many issues arising from the destabilising impact of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the ...

  7. Category:1850s by country - Wikipedia

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    1850 by country (68 C, 20 P) 1851 by country (79 C, 18 P) 1852 by country (82 C, 18 P) 1853 by country (72 C, 18 P) 1854 by country (80 C, 18 P) 1855 by country (79 C ...

  8. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  9. 1850 - Wikipedia

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    1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1850th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 850th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1850, the ...