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Carl Ritter von Ghega
1802Jan, 10

Carl Ritter von Ghega

Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)
Karl Ritter von Ghega or Karl von Ghega (10 January 1802 – 14 March 1860) was an Austrian nobleman and the designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag. During his time, he was the most prominent of Austrian railway engineers and architects.

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  • 26Apr

    Émigré

    Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
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  • 4Jul

    United States Military Academy

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