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George Cooke's 1834 depiction of Patrick Henry arguing the "Parson's Cause" case at the Hanover County Courthouse. The "Parson's Cause" was a legal and political dispute in the British colony of Virginia often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution .
1845–1855 – The Great Famine results in no less than 2.1 million people fleeing Ireland. As well, roughly 1 million people died. The population of Ireland fell from 8.18 million in 1841 to 6.55 million in 1851, though the population continued to fall until 1946. The population of Ireland remains lower than recorded in 1841 in the present day.
At the time of her sinking, Central America carried gold then valued at approximately US$8,000,000 (2021 value of $765 million, based on a gold price of $1,738.70 per troy ounce = $56,087 per kg). The valuation of the ship itself was substantially more than those lost in other disasters of the period, being $140,000 (equivalent to $4,580,000 in ...
New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday. The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of ...
June 1, 1885 French Third Republic: Paris: 2,000,000–3,000,000 [4] Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons: November 13, 1887 United States: Chicago ~500,000 [5] Funeral of Wilhelm I: March 12–16, 1888 German Empire: Berlin: 200,000 [6] State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil: December 9, 1891 French Third ...
The Million Man March, Washington, D.C., October 1995 was the focus of a large crowd counting dispute. Crowd counting is the act of counting the total crowd present in a certain area. The people in a certain area are called a crowd. The most direct method is to actually count each person in the crowd.
Britain's striking miners voted to approve a settlement proposed by the British government. The House of Commons then voted a subsidy of ten million pounds sterling to the mining industry to cover the pay increase. [5] The U.S.-registered EDC Design 1023 cargo ship Mopang was sunk by a mine at the entrance to Burgas Bay in the Black Sea. [6] [7]