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The town of Papantla in the state of Veracruz was founded by the Totonac people around the 13th century AD. [39] The neighboring monumental city of El Tajín was settled around the 1st century AD [40] [38] until it was destroyed around the same time Papantla was founded. [38] [39] Oraibi: Puebloan peoples United States: c. 1100 AD [41]
It’s no coincidence that Capitol Hill has the look and feel of a mid-20th century downtown. The once flourishing community hub was founded in 1901 by B.R. Harrington, who created the town in an ...
The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years. In that time, it has become one of the world's most significant financial and cultural capital cities. It has withstood plague, devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and riots .
Rome, Chang'an or Baghdad may have been the first city to have 1,000,000 people, as early as the 1st century or as late as the 8th century. Later cities that might have reached 1 million include Luoyang, Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Jinling, Beijing, Edo. There is wide agreement that London was the first city to reach 2 million and New York was the first ...
Memorial plaque presented by the National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission in Washington, D.C. in 1951. An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event.
The Census Act 1800 resulted in Great Britain's first modern Census a year later, and other than 1941 a census has been taken every ten years since. [15] The resulting populations of England's towns and cities clearly shows the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the urban population, particularly in the growth of the cities of the north and ...
This Bible, more than a 100 years old, was likely a prized possession of Michael and Mary Sutton, prominent Green Bay residents who moved to Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War.
Boston was transformed from a relatively small and economically stagnant town in 1780 to a bustling seaport and cosmopolitan center with a large and highly mobile population by 1800. It had become one of the world's wealthiest international trading ports, exporting products like rum, fish, salt and tobacco. [ 52]