Joshua Norton, a British-born South African immigrant, declared himself Emperor of the United States in 1859, gaining beloved ...

Akaroa, a hidden gem in New Zealand's Canterbury region, is a must visit. French explorers founded this oldest town in 1840.

The Treaty Principles Bill sought to define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi – an agreement signed between the British Crown and a group of indigenous Māori leaders in the 1840s, which ...

BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, gained 1.83 percent to close at 1,840.31 points Tuesday. The ChiNext Index, together with the ...

The notion of a two-day weekend for workers first emerged in the late 1800s during the Industrial Revolution, with early efforts for a half-day off on Saturdays in the 1840s in the United Kingdom.

The Stevenson resident was 86. Mrs. Pomykala also operated the 1840s Plaza Carrollton Inn on Albemarle Street and the Grey Rock Mansion in Pikesville. Born in Riverdale in Prince George’s County ...

A historic St Helens butchers and piemaker will close its doors for the final time today. Burchall’s on Westfield Street has served generations of customers in the 185 years since it first opened.

The historian Jacques Monet demonstrated how French Canadians in the 1840s, facing existential pressure, chose cultural survival over economic integration. When their very identity was threatened ...

It wasn’t going to work. Then, a neighbor inquired about his doing design work on her circa-1840 twin homes she owned on a nearby street. He fell in love with the place, and she ended up selling ...

As a small nation, New Zealand is heavily trade-dependent. From the 1840s, the Government relied on border tariffs on imported goods for revenue. Income tax was introduced in 1891, but tariffs ...