Thomas Stevens (December 24, 1854, Berkhamsted, Herts, England - 1935) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Arms of Berkhamsted Town Council The walls of Berkhamsted Castle Berkhamsted is a historic town of some 19,000 people. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... ÅŒfuckỹdgfdddfdefdfdfdfdfdfdaasdfasdfasf For other uses, see Bicycle (disambiguation). ...

A voracious reader of travel literature, in 1872 Stevens left his parents' home and moved to the United States where he held a number of assorted jobs before becoming a miner in Colorado. In 1884 he acquired a black-enameled Columbia 50-inch Standard model penny-farthing with nickel-plated wheels built by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Stevens struck out across the country, carrying in his handlebar bag: socks, a spare shirt, a slicker that doubled as tent and bedroll, and a 38 Smith & Wesson. Leaving San Francisco at 8 o'clock on April 22, 1884, he traveled eastward towards the United States. He was greeted by bicycle clubs, most prominently the local chapter of the League of American Wheelmen in Laramie, Wyoming. He reached Boston after 3700 miles on wagon trails, railroad ways, canal towpaths and public roads, to complete the first transcontinental bicycle ride on August 4, 1884. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 371 pixel Image in higher resolution (2207 × 1024 pixel, file size: 690 KB, MIME type: image/png) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas Stevens (cyclist... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 371 pixel Image in higher resolution (2207 × 1024 pixel, file size: 690 KB, MIME type: image/png) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas Stevens (cyclist... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The penny-farthing is an early model of bicycle, produced in England in 1870. ... Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. Until 1896, it was the leading US producer of bicycles. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government... Smith & Wesson NASDAQ: SWHC are the largest manufacturers of handguns in the United States. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The League of American Wheelmen (LAW) is the historic name of the organization now known as the League of American Bicyclists (LAB). ... Downtown Laramie Laramie is the county seat of Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...

As reported in Harper's: "Eighty-three and a half days of actual travel and twenty days stoppage for wet weather, etc., made one hundred and three and a half days occupied in reaching Boston." An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly magazine of politics and culture. ...

Passing the winter in New York, Stevens contributed sketches of his transcontinental trip to Outing Magazine. The Magazine made him a "Special Correspondent" and sent him on April 9, 1885 to Liverpool aboard the steamer The City of Chicago and was again greeted by bicycle fans. He continued his journey around the world through England, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary (where he picked up a temporary cycling companion with whom he shared no language), Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumelia, Turkey. In Constantinople he rested among people who had heard of America, refitted with spare spokes, tires and other parts and a better pistol, waited for reports of banditry to subside, and then pedalled off through Anatolia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran, where he waited out the winter in Teheran as a guest of the Shah. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Liverpool skyline. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Anthem: Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city)  Belgrade Official languages Serbian written with the Cyrillic alphabet1 Government Parliamentary republic  - President Boris Tadić  - Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  - Formation 8th century   - Independence c. ... Map of Rumelia as of 1801 Rumelia (turkish: Rum: Roman El: Land Rumeli: Lands of Rome), the area that was the East Roman or Byzantine Empire, a name commonly used, from the 15th century onwards, to denote the part of the Balkan Peninsula subject to the Ottoman Empire. ... Map of Constantinople. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kurdistan (literally meaning the land of Kurds[1]; old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also in Kurdish: Kurdewarî) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds. ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... Shah is a Persian term for a monarch (king or emperor) that has been adopted in many other languages. ...

Having been refused permission to travel through Siberia, he set off on March 10, 1886 through Afghanistan where he was expelled by local authorities. He took a Russian steamer across the Caspian to Baku; rail to Batoum; steamer to Constantinople and India which he bicycled across, noting that the Grand Trunk Road was excellent wheeling and free from bandits. His descriptions of life in India, however, suffer from being based on the opinions of experts rather than his own. Another steamer brought him from Calcutta to Hong Kong and southern China. He pedalled to eastern China, escaped rioters who were angry over a war with the French, and took a steamer to Japan. The bicycle part of his journey around the world ends December 17, 1886, at Yokohama. His itinerary accounts "DISTANCE ACTUALLY WHEELED, ABOUT 13,500 MILES". Stevens returned by steamer to San Francisco, in January, 1887. Siberian Federal District (darker red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) arctic northeast Siberia Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia and comprising a large part of the Euro-Asian Steppe. ... For Caspian Sea, go to: Caspian Sea CASPIAN Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a national grass-roots consumer group dedicated to fighting supermarket loyalty or frequent shopper cards. ... The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asias oldest and longest major roads. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ...

Stevens' travels through Japan were reported in the Jijishinpou newspaper. Along the way, Stevens sent a series of letters to Harper's magazine detailing his experiences and later collected those experiences into a poorly edited book, Around the World on a Bicycle currently available in a single-volume paperback and publicly available from the Ibiblio digital library project. ibiblio (formerly SunSITE and MetaLab) is a collection of collections, and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software. ... A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. ...

The Pope Company preserved Stevens's bicycle until World War II, when it was donated to a scrap drive to support the war effort. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Thomas Stevens is buried at St Marylebone Cemetery in East Finchley, London. East Finchley is an area in the London Borough of Barnet. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

His publications also include:

• Some Asiatic Dogs, St. Nicholas Magazine Feb 1890
• Wild Pea-Fowls in British India, St. Nicholas Magazine Sep 1888

1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

External links

• Works by Thomas Stevens at Project Gutenberg
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