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To the Victor the Spoils : Museum of Sevastopol − 14 September, 1867
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[Following the long struggle against and eventual victory over the Weedking] Before the victor Musrum departed westward, he gathered with gleeful acquisitiveness numerous pieces of booty both useful and ornamental. Returning to the Estate at Odessa, he entrusted to Palfreyman the preservation ...  read more
The Panorama Invented − 1 January, 1792
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Robert Barker, whilst jailed for debt, conceived of the idea of the panorama and exhibited one of the English fleet in 1792, sparking a craze in both Europe and America. Perhaps the most spectacular panorama ever produced was Colonel Jean-Charles Langlois's 'Battle of Navarino" 1830 which include...  read more
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Peale turns Home into First US Museum − 1 January, 1786
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Charles Willson Peale was the first great American museum director (although the Charleston Museum was founded in 1773), initially establishing his Museum of Philadelphia in his home in 1786. Peale had acquired the curio cabinet of Pierre Eugene du Simitiere; adding its snakes and natural history...  read more
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Banks collects Head − 1 January, 1770
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The first dried head ever possessed by a European was acquired by Mr. (later Sir Joseph) Banks, who was with Captain Cook's expedition as a naturalist, and it was one of 4 brought on board the Endeavour for inspection. It was the head of a youth of 14 or 15, who had been killed by a blow that fra...  read more
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William Dampher re-introduces tattooing to Europe − 1 January, 1691
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William Dampher is responsible for re-introducing tattooing to the west. He was a sailor and explorer who traveled the South Seas, from whence he brought to London a heavily tattooed Polynesian named 'Prince Giolo', Known as the 'Painted Prince'. He was put on exhibition , a money making attracti...  read more
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First British Museum − 1 January, 1683
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The cabinet of the Tradescants became the first British museum, the Ashmolean, at Oxford University, opening with its own building in 1683. The father and son Tradescants, both gardeners had collected an extraordinary collection of both plants and curiosities. In 1651 the younger Tradescant issue...  read more
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Fludd − 1 January, 1617 - 1 January, 1637
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Robert Fludd's (1574-1637) encyclopedic work 'History of the Macrocosm and Microcosm' published. When Fludd died so did alchemy in Europe.
People:  Robert Fludd
Leiden University Botanical Garden established. − 1 January, 1587
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The University had decided that a botanical, rather than apothecary, garden would be of most use to their medical faculty. They persuaded the great botanist Charles de l'Ecluse to its second prefect and started a tradition which saw the garden with a collection of some 5,864 species in 1750. The ...  read more
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life of Ricci − 1 January, 1552 - 1 January, 1610
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Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary to China, produced the first edition of his map of the world 'Great Map of Ten Thousand Countries', in the 1580's - a remarkable achievement showing China's geographical position in the world. He was also notable for building a 'Memory Palace' for the Chinese emp...  read more
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People:  Matteo Ricci
Collecting people − 1 January, 1520
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Paolo Giovio, a bishop, humanist and scholar, assembled a collection of 280 portraits of individuals divided into 4 categories -- dead poets and poets, live poets and scholars, artists, and political (including military, religious and monarchical) leaders. The Museum Jovianium (Giovio in fact rev...  read more
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People:  Paolo Giovio
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