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The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, is an international treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom. This treaty resolved standing boundary issues between ...
23 July – The Crown agrees sale of its rights in the royal forest of Exmoor. Thomas Dyke Acland secures a herd of Exmoor ponies, the nucleus of the modern breed. 25 September – Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood, in London. [12]
Just ask this guy who bought the map for $50 at an estate sale in North Carolina, only to discover on Antiques Roadshow that it was appraised for a staggering $35,000 to $45,000. 6. Vintage World Maps
Born John Pretor in Chard, Somerset in 1740, his parents were Michael Pretor (d.1744) and Alicia Clarke (d.1759). [1] [2] His mother had a distant cousin, John Frederick Pinney, who had no children, so in 1762 at the age of 22 John Pretor was the key beneficiary of John Frederick’s will, inheriting land in Dorset and several plantations worked by enslaved people on Nevis.
England, a packet ship of the Black Ball Line. The Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line was founded in 1817 and began shipping operations in 1818. At some point in the line's history it became known as the Old Line and eventually became known as the Black Ball Line after the 1840s. [1]
Westmoreland first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1818 (the LR volume for 1817, if any, is not available on line), and already showed her sailing to India. Westmoreland, Cope, master, sailed for Bengal on 21 April 1818. [3] She arrived at Madeira on 8 May 1818 and sailed on 15 May for Bengal.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1818. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
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