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The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the Black March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread.
The northern point of Rossøya, at 80° 49′ 44.41″ North, is the northernmost point in Svalbard, and thereby also in the Kingdom of Norway. [1] The distance to the North Pole is 1024.3 kilometers (637 mi / 553 nm), to Nordkapp on the Norwegian mainland 1084 km and to Pysen , off the southern tip of mainland Norway, 2580 km.
The first scientific expedition to Svalbard was the Russian Čičagov Expedition between 1764 and 1766, which passed Svalbard in an unsuccessful attempt to find the Northern Sea Route. It made among water and topography measurements. [29] The second expedition was organized by the Royal Navy and led by Constantine Phipps in 1773.
2016 was the warmest year on record at Svalbard Airport, with a remarkable mean temperature of 0.0 °C (32.0 °F), 7.5 °C (13.5 °F) above the 1961–90 average, and more comparable to a location at the Arctic Circle.
MODIS satellite photo of Svalbard, courtesy NASA. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean roughly centered on 78° north latitude and 20° east longitude. It constitutes the northernmost territory of the Kingdom of Norway. The three main islands in the group consist of Spitsbergen (the largest island), Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya.
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’) was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G ...
31 March 1926 6 years, 33 days France: 2 George Washington Stephens (1866–1942) 1 April 1926 9 June 1927 1 year, 69 days Canada: 3 Sir Ernest Wilton (1870–1952) 9 June 1927 31 March 1932 4 years, 296 days United Kingdom: 4 Sir Geoffrey George Knox (1884–1958) 1 April 1932 28 February 1935 2 years, 333 days United Kingdom
The route from Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The royal Flight to Varennes (French: Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King ...