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For other uses, see Treaty of Saint Petersburg. Quick Facts Convention Concerning the Limits of Their Respective Possessions on the Northwest Coast of America and the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, ...

Thomas Henry Huxley was born in London on 4 May 1825, the son of a maths teacher. When he was 10, Huxley's family moved to Coventry and three years later he was apprenticed to his uncle ...

The railway was opened in 1830, but building had started in the 1820s. It was the first railway to completely run on steam power and have a signalling system, (Catalogue ref: RAIL 1148/1/f6) February ...

The death of Tsar Alexander I in November 1825, at the early age of 48, took by surprise the conspirators who, for nearly ten years, had been plotting his overthrow and the replacement of the Russian ...

1825. "The Erie Canal played a major part in commerce in the history of the United States," reports the Library of Congress. "Its creation helped to make New York City the chief port in the United ...

It opened in 1825 and was the first public railway. The following year Stephenson was made engineer for the Liverpool to Manchester Railway. In October 1829, the railway's owners staged a ...