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28 mai 2024 · 1989 – 1994. A new asset class launches a new company. ICG (Intermediate Capital Group) is founded in 1989 in the UK by six entrepreneurs who see a market for an emerging asset class: mezzanine debt – a layer of debt refinancing between equity and fixed income. We quickly make our first investments, one being in Silvi, a French fire ...
Il y a 3 jours · The London Company established the Colony of Virginia in 1607, the first permanently settled English colony on the continent. The Plymouth Company founded the Popham Colony on the Kennebec River , but it was short-lived.
18 juin 2024 · edit. The Great Western Railway ( GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.
17 juin 2024 · University of Cambridge, English autonomous institution of higher learning at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam 50 miles (80 km) north of London. The start of the university is generally taken as 1209, when scholars from Oxford migrated to Cambridge to escape Oxford’s riots of “town and gown” (townspeople versus scholars).
Il y a 2 jours · In 2018, Mercedes-Benz was the largest brand of premium vehicles in the world, having sold 2.31 million passenger cars. [8] The brand's origins lie in Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft 's 1901 Mercedes and Carl Benz 's 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first internal combustion engine in a self-propelled automobile. The ...
15 juin 2024 · William Gregory, Lord Mayor of London, c. 1450 It is unknown when Bethlem, or Bedlam, began to specialise in the care and control of the insane, but it has been frequently asserted that Bethlem was first used for the insane from 1377. This date is derived from the unsubstantiated conjecture of the Reverend Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue, chaplain to the hospital, who published a monograph on its ...
Il y a 14 heures · London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. It was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1.12-square-mile (2.9 km
