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Z B Vance was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of North Carolina from 1862 until 1865.
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Z F Moody was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Oregon from 1882 until 1887.
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Zachariah Chandler was an American politician. He was born in 1813 at Michigan and died in 1879. He removed from New Hampshire to Detroit in 1833 and engaged in the dry-goods business, in which he was successful. He became a prominent Whig and a director of the 'underground railroad'. He was elected to the US Senate to succeed General Cass in 1857, and remained in that post until 1874, when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by Grant. He was again elected to the Senate in 1879.
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Zachary Taylor (nicknamed Rough amd Ready) was an American soldier and the twelfth president of the USA. He was born in 1784 at Orange County, Virginia and died in 1850. He received an appointment to the US army as first lieutenant in 1808. In 1812 he defended Fort Harrison against the Indians. After the long period of comparative peace he served in the Black Hawk war of 1832 and the Seminole war in Florida from 1836 to 1837, there, in December, 1837, he won the battle of Okeechobee. On the annexation of Texas the then general Taylor marched to Rio Grande, Colorado and gained victories at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He was made major-general, and stormed Monterey in September 1846. In the following campaign General Taylor, who had been compelled to detach some of his best troops, was attacked by vastly superior forces under Santa Anna, and gained a brilliant victory at Buena Vista, on February the 22nd to 23rd,1847. The following year the Whigs nominated him as candidate for President over such competitors as Clay and Webster, and he was elected and entered on his duties in 1849. The California question complicated with the absorbing slavery topic was the chief matter in President Taylor's administration; he died before the compromise was completed.
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Zachris Topelius was a Swedish-Finnish author. He was born in 1818 and died in 1898. He was educated at Helsingfors. For a time he edited the Helsingfors News, in which many of his early stories and poems appeared, and he was professor of history at his own university from 1853 until 1878. His works include nature stories for children, translated into English as 'Whisperings in the Wood', a series of historical tales. Stories of the Surgeon written between 1858 and 1867, he also translated, a play, 'After Fifty Years', and wrote a number of poems.
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The Zaparos are a South American aboriginal people formerly powerful in Ecuador.
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The Zapotec are a North American Indian people of south Mexico, now numbering approximately 250,000, living mainly in Oaxaca. The Zapotec language, which belongs to the Oto-Mangean family, has nine dialects.
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Zebulon Butler was an American soldier. He was born in 1731 and died in 1795. he served in New Jersey from 1777 until 1778, and was commander at Wyoming, Pennsylvania at the time of the massacre. He served with distinction in general Sullivan's Indian expedition of 1779.
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Zebulon M Pike was an American soldier. He was born in 1779 and died in 1813. While in the US army he explored the Mississippi to its source in 1805. From 1806 to 1807 he was engaged in geographical explorations in Louisiana territory and discovered Pike's Peak in the Rocky Mountains. He was seized by the Spanish Government for trespassing on Spanish territory, but was soon afterward released. In 1813 he was assigned to the principal army as adjutant and inspector general. He commanded the expedition against York, Upper Canada, and was killed by the explosion of a magazine of a captured fortification.
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Zebulon Vance was an American soldier and politician. He was born in 1830 and died in 1894. He represented North Carolina in the US Congress as a State-Rights American from 1858 to 1861. He was colonel of a Confederate regiment from 1861 to 1862; Governor of North Carolina from 1863 to 1864, and greatly aided the Confederate cause. He was again Governor from 1876 to 1879, and was a US Senator from 1879 to 1894.
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Zelia Trebelli (born Zelia Gilbert) was a French opera singer. She was born in 1838 at Paris and died in 1892. She studied singing under Wartel, and made her first stage appearance in 1859 at Madrid. From 1860 until 1861 she performed with marked success in Germany, before playing Lucrezia in London in 1862. She travelled to the USA in 1878 and again in 1884 and made her last appearance in London in 1889.
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Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher,. He was born in 335 BC at Cyprus of Phoenician origin and died in 262 BC. He went to Athens in 313 BC, and attended lectures at Plato's Academy, afterwards evolving his own doctrine of Stoicism.
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Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher. He lived around 400 BC and his paradoxes are the first logical arguments, eliciting contradictory conclusions from an opponent's hypotheses. They support the doctrines that reality is indivisible and reason is at variance with the senses.
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Zenobia was the wife of Odaenathus of Palmyra. She lived around the 3rd century and may have murdered her husband in 267 and whom she succeeded as regent for their son. Zenobia occupied Syria, Egypt, and much of Asia Minor before the Roman emperor Aurelian defeated and captured her in 272.
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Zerah Colburn - known as the calculating boy - was an American academic. He was born in 1804 at Vermont, USA and died in 1840. Before the age of six he exhibited astonishing abilities at mathematics, and in public exhibitions astounded learned mathematicians by the rapidity and accuracy of his calculations. However, as he grew up so he lost the ability and he became professor of languages at Norwich University in Vermont in 1835.
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Zi Xi was an Empress dowager of China. She was born in 1834 and died in 1908. She was presented as a concubine to the emperor Xianfeng. On his death in 1861 she became regent for her young son Tongzhi until 1873 and, after his death, for her nephew Guangxu until 1889. A ruthless conservative, she blocked the Hundred Days' Reform launched in 1898 and assumed power again, having Guangxu imprisoned. Her policies helped deny China a peaceful transition to political and economic reform.
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Zoe was a Byzantine empress who ruled from 1028 until 1050. She was born in 978 and died in 1050. She gained the title by marriage to the heir apparent Romanus III Argyrus, but was reputed to have poisoned him in 1034 in order to marry her lover Michael. He died in 1041 and Zoe and her sister Theodora were proclaimed joint empresses. Rivalry led to Zoe marrying Constantine IX Monomachus with whom she reigned until her death.
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Zoltan Kodaly was a Hungarian composer. He was born in 1882 and died in 1967.
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Zoroaster was a Persian prophet and religious teacher. He was born 638 BC and died in 553 BC. He founded the religion of Zoroastrianism. Zoroaster believed that he had seen God, Ahura Mazda, in a vision. His first vision came at the age of 30 and, after initial rejection and violent attack, he converted King Vishtaspa. Subsequently, his teachings spread rapidly, becoming the official religion of the kingdom.
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The Zulu are a tribe of cow-tending, fierce but loyal and honourable Bantu people of South Africa. The Zulu are renowned for their skill at warfare, their bravery and their honour and respect for other brave soldiers and warriors.
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The Zuni are a North American Indian people living in western New Mexico. They speak a Penutian language, Zuni.
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