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The Sonderbund War (German: Sonderbundskrieg, French: Guerre du Sonderbund, Italian: Guerra del Sonderbund) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons.
March 13, 1847 The District of Columbia retroceded Alexandria County back to Virginia. [85] Congress passed the act on July 9, 1846, [187] residents of Alexandria County were proclaimed by the president to have agreed to it on September 7, 1846, [188] and Virginia took possession of the land on this date. [189] May 29, 1848
Tanner's 1847 map of Africa Henry Schenck Tanner (c. 1786–1858), was an American cartographer , born in New York City . He produced A Geographical and Statistical Account of the Epidemic Cholera from its Commencement in India to its Entrance into the United States [ 1 ] in 1832 in response to the worldwide cholera epidemic of 1817 .
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States. August 2 – Reuben Chapman is elected the 13th governor of Alabama defeating Nicholas Davis. August 12 – U.S. troops of General Winfield Scott begin to advance along the aqueduct around Lake Chalco and Lake Xochimilco in Mexico
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
The final map in 25 sheets on the scale of 1⁄100000 was published at intervals between 1842 and 1865. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] In 1847 the Catholic cantons of Switzerland attempted to form a separate alliance of their own, known as the Sonderbund , effectively splitting from the rest of the country.
The Catholic Church was widely distrusted by many Americans as a symbol of European autocracy. German immigration, on the other hand, was "pulled" to America to avoid a looming financial disaster in their nation. Unlike the Irish, the German immigrants often sold their possessions and arrived in America with money in hand.