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1851 In Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1851 in Switzerland. Incumbents *Federal Council: **Ulrich Ochsenbein **Jonas Furrer **Josef Munzinger (President) **Henri Druey **Friedrich Frey-Herosé **Wilhelm Matthias Naeff **Stefano Franscini Events * Patek Philippe & Co. is founded * Swiss Federal Council first considers official representation in the Philippines * The Eidgenössischer Stutzer 1851, the first service rifle used by the Swiss armed forces to be procured by the federal government, goes into service * The telegraph is organized in Switzerland * All Swiss weights and measures are unified Births * October 6 – Wilhelm Oechsli, historian (d. 1919) Deaths * Abraham Constantin, enamel painter (b. 1785 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan. ** The first issue of the '' Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Franscini
Stefano Franscini (23 October 1796 – 19 July 1857) was a Swiss politician and statistician. He was one of the initial members of the Swiss Federal Council elected in 1848 and Switzerland's first native Italian speaking federal councillor. Franscini was affiliated to the Liberal Radical Party of Switzerland. During his office tenure he held the Department of Home Affairs. Important elements of his political legacy include political reforms in the Ticino during the 1830s and 1840s, Switzerland's first federal population census in 1850, and the creation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1854/1855. Early life and education (1796–1824) Franscini was born in the village of Bodio, to a farmer's family with humble backgrounds. Until the age of eleven, he visited a winter school run by a priest in the neighbouring village Personico. From 1808 to 1814, he attended the priests' seminary in Pollegio, from where he was sent to continue his education and training at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1785
Events January–March * January 1 ** The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan. ** The first issue of the '' Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. * January 11 – Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167 * January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoà i Mút: Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tây SÆ¡n. * January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Constantin
Abraham Constantin (1 December 1785 – 10 March 1855), a Swiss enamel painter, was born at Geneva. He became a pupil of Gérard, after whom he executed many works in enamel and on porcelain, among which may be mentioned, 'Belisarius,' 'Cupid and Psyche,' 'The Entry of Henry IV. into Paris,' and portraits of the King of Rome, Charles X, and the Emperor of Russia. He was attached to the manufactory at Sèvres, and died at Geneva. Rue Abraham Constantin in Geneva is named after him with the following information: Son of Jacob and Elisabeth Rival. Abraham Constantin (1785–1855) studied at College then at the drawing school of the Société des Arts, pupil of Constant Vaucher. He was apprenticed to the enamellers Henri L'Evêque, Jean-Martin Dufour, Richard, Léchaud and Jean-Jacques Soutter. He was a talented painter. In Paris from 1807, he was a protégé of Baron Desnoyer and François Gérard, Constantine was introduced to the Empress Joséphine. The leading painter at the Sà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Switzerland
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Bratislava, Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY Iolaire, HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2–January 22, 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919), Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Faisal I of Iraq, Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionism, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (region), Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Oechsli
Wilhelm Oechsli (6 October 1851, Riesbach – 26 April 1919) was a Swiss historian. Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. From 1893 to 1919 he was professor of history at the University of Zürich. He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past: Works * ''Die Anfänge der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft zur sechsten Säkularfeier des ersten ewigen Bundes vom 1. August 1291'', Zürich: Ulrich, 1891. * ''Geschichte der Schweiz im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert'', 2 vols, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903 * ''History of Switzerland, 1499–1914'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul Cedar Paul, ''née'' Gertrude Mary Davenport (1880 – 18 March 1972) was a singer, author, translator and journalist.''Who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 6
Events Pre-1600 * 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic * 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia. * AD 23 – Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion. * 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy. * 618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi. *1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. * 1600 – '' Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. 1601–1900 * 1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America. * 1762 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidgenössischer Stutzer 1851
The Eidgenössischer Stutzer 1851 (), also called Feldstutzer 1851, was the first service rifle used by the Swiss armed forces to be procured by the federal government, which was responsible for the armament of the Cantonal armed forces under the 1848 federal constitution. It was also the first military weapon in Europe to use the smaller 10.5 mm caliber (later reduced to 10.4 mm) instead of the prior ''de facto'' standard of 18 mm. The ''Stutzer'' was refitted with a Milbank Amsler breechloading A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the ( muzzle ... system (''à tabatière'') in 1867. It was replaced by the Repetiergewehr Vetterli, Modell 1869/70 in 1869. References * External linksPrivate website with additional information {{DEFAULTSORT:Eidgenossischer Stutze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patek Philippe & Co
Patek may refer to: * Patek (surname) * Pátek, a village and municipality in the Czech Republic * Patek, Iran, a village in Iran See also * * Patek Philippe Patek Philippe SA () is a Swiss luxury watchmaker and clock manufacturer, located in the Canton of Geneva and the Vallée de Joux. Established in 1839, it is named after two of its founders, Antoni Patek and Adrien Philippe. Since 1932, the comp ..., Swiss watchmaker * Petek (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (19 February 1802 – 21 January 1881) was a Swiss politician and one of the seven initial members of the Swiss Federal Council (1848–1875). Naeff was born in Altstätten into a long-established Rhine-Valley's family. Already, his father was an influential merchant. Naeff studied law in Heidelberg (Germany), and, after his return to Switzerland, he was elected to the cantonal (state) government of St. Gallen. Naeff is well known for not intervening in the conflict, which dominated Switzerland at that time, between liberals and conservatives. The Rhine Valley was a stronghold of the liberals, which is why Naeff could depend on his supporters. Naeff was a member of the "Siebnergruppe", a group of seven people who, after the Napoleonic occupation, drafted the 1848 constitution of the Swiss Confederation, the basis of the current constitution. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council of ministers on 16 November 1848, as a representative of St. Gallen. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Frey-Herosé
Friedrich Frey-Herosé (12 October 1801, in Lindau – 22 September 1873) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 16 November 1848 as one of the first seven members of the council. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland The Free Democratic Party (, FDP; , PLD), also called Radical Democratic Party (, PRD; , PLR) was a liberal political party in Switzerland. Formerly one of the major parties in Switzerland, on 1 January 2009 it merged with the Liberal Party of .... During his office time he held the following departments: * Department of Trade and Customs (1848 - 1853) * Political Department (1854) * Military Department (1855 - 1859) * Political Department (1860) * Department of Trade and Customs (1861 - 1866) and was President of the Confederation twice in 1854 and 1860. He handed over office on 31 December 1866. External links * * 1801 births 1873 deaths People from Lindau Swiss Calvinist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
