https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1 Trinity Clark and Javon WIlliams en-us 2017-12-01 14:23:39 UTC 2017-12-08 00:54:30 UTC hello@padlet.com jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212275523 The Parliament in Westminster passed an Act of Union formally binding Ireland with England and abolished the Irish parliament. 

]]> 2017-12-01 14:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212275523 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212283597 Britain conducted its first census in order to find out how many men were available for conscription.]]> 2017-12-01 14:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212283597 trinity_clark2 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212283856 Rich women wore corsets under their dresses. At the beginning of Victoria's reign it was fashionable to wear a crinoline under a skirt. These hoops and petticoats made skirts very wide. Later in the period skirts were narrower with a shape at the back called a bustle.]]> 2017-12-01 14:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212283856 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212284079 Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, took the 2,500 year-old bas-reliefs from the Parthenon in Greece while he served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. ]]> 2017-12-01 14:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212284079 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212284546 The London Stock Exchange formed. British government debt was the only security traded and this remained so until 1822.]]> 2017-12-01 14:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212284546 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212286598  In Australia the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy (b.~1750) was shot dead. His head was cut off and believed to have been placed in a jar and sent to England. He opposed British settlement and was described by Sydney's then governor Philip King as "a terrible pest to the colony" but also "a brave and independent character."]]> 2017-12-01 14:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/212286598 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213040761 Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher. ]]> 2017-12-04 19:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213040761 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213040891 Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.

]]> 2017-12-04 19:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213040891 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041032 Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.]]> 2017-12-04 19:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041032 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041249 Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.]]> 2017-12-04 19:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041249 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041355 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite. ]]> 2017-12-04 19:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/213041355 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361357 Isadora Duncan establishes the first school of modern dance in Berlin.]]> 2017-12-08 00:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361357 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361715 The Romantic period in ballet sees ballerinas making technical and artistic strides in the art form. Until this period, men dominated the stage.]]> 2017-12-08 00:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361715 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361735 Claude Debussy introduces impressionism in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra Comique in Paris.]]> 2017-12-08 00:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361735 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361746 Anton Chekhov introduces modern realism at the premiere of The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theatre.]]> 2017-12-08 00:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214361746 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362193 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ]]> 2017-12-08 00:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362193 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362256 Cheap Clothes and Nasty by Charles Kingsley ]]> 2017-12-08 00:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362256 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362302 Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell  ]]> 2017-12-08 00:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362302 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362325 Realities by Eliza Lynn-Linton ]]> 2017-12-08 00:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362325 jawilliams22 https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362437 The Star Chamber by W.H. Ainsworth]]> 2017-12-08 00:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jawilliams22/d3phdg0u1mo1/wish/214362437