German-American general, lawyer, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1906)

Carl Schurz

Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent member of the newly-forming Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil-service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and served as the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.

Born

1829

March 2

Died

1906

Era

1820s

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Carl, in brief

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1829 Born
1906 Died

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537 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
1331 Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege.
1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

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The world in 1906

When Carl departed

april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1829

John Everett Millais 1829– English painter and illustrator (died 1896) Otto Goldschmidt 1829– German composer, conductor and pianist (died 1907) Peter Lumsden 1829–1918 English general (died 1918)

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