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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
14: ...], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]: 1740-1741
15: ...]], [[King of Bohemia]]: 1780 ([[Heir-Apparent]]: 1741-1780)
48: ...fter1=[[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]]|after6=[[Philip of Parma|Philip]]}} - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... '''Elizabeth''', was an Empress of [[Russia]] ([[1741]] - [[1762]]) who took the country into the [[War...
15: ...e Semyonovsky [[Leib Guard|Guards]] regiment, and after his banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongu...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 ==
19: ...ry one else. The merit and glory of that singular affair belong to Elizabeth alone. The fear of being ...
23: At midnight on the 6th of December [[1741]], with a few personal friends, including her phy... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...c|its 14-year period of independence]] during and after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary...
72: ...II of Great Britain|George II]] in [[1740]]. In [[1741]], George II ruled that Massachusetts's claims in...
78: ...nt thunderstorm, and was adopted by the delegates after four days of debate. This was the first writte...
82: ...ntucky]], which was admitted to the Union shortly afterward.
84: ...house 20040420.jpg|280px|thumb|right|The [[gold leaf]] [[dome]] of the [[Vermont State House]] ([[Capi... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
99: *[[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]] ([[1741]]-[[1806]])
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
440: *[[Henry Fuseli]] ([[1741]]-[[1825]])
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]]) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
19: ...eorge Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...ar west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer agains...
24: After 1070 years, the Republic lost its independence...
26: ...ed 'unredeemed' until the end of the Great War.] After 1797, the city fell into a serious decline, wi...
28: ==Naval and military affairs==
92: ...nd [[sand]]. Most of these piles are still intact after centuries of submersion. The foundations rest ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
141: *[[Jean Antoine Houdon]] (1741 - 1828) - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...ided capture by Continental forces. Shortly thereafter, he was given a commission in the [[British Ar...
9: ...tee of Safety (American Revolution)|Committee of Safety]] to capture [[Fort Ticonderoga]] on [[Lake Ch...
21: ...recuperating Arnold in charge of [[Philadelphia]] after the British had evacuated it, and it was there...
31: ...ces. Arnold's wife feigned innocence in the whole affair and, with George Washington's permission, was...
35: After the war, Arnold moved with his wife and family... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
13: ...0]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
23: ...n a new city. He was not satisfied, however, and after a few months was induced by Pennsylvania Gover...
27: ...ostly theological and educational tomes, but by [[1741]] the library also included works on history, geo...
34: ...ranklin began to concern himself more with public affairs. In 1743, he set forth a scheme for an Acade...
40: ...[cgs]] unit of [[electric charge]] has been named after him: one ''franklin'' (Fr) is equal to one [[s... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - )
640: *[[Peter Sarnak]] (South Africa, [[1955]] - )
790: ... Wilson (mathematician)|John Wilson]] (England, [[1741]] - [[1793]]) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
15: ...executed the plan, and on [[August 15]], [[1309]] after over two years of campaigning, the island of [...
17: ...4]] and another by [[Mehmed II]] in [[1480]], who after the [[fall of Constantinople]] made the Knight...
25: After seven years of moving from place to place in [...
27: ...[[Greenwich, London, England|Greenwich, London]]. After the siege a new city had to be built -- the pr...
31: ...r [[slave trade|slave trading]], selling captured Africans and Turks and conversely freeing Christian ... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
175: ...es Wood]] independently isolated the element in [[1741]].
192: ... producer of platinum group metals from its South African mines. It mines, processes, refines and mark... - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
32: *[[1741]] - [[Platinum]] discovered by [[Charles Wood (sc...
47: ...um]] discovered by [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]]. After the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]].
50: ...] - [[Yttrium]] discovered by [[Johan Gadolin]]. After [[Ytterby]] (a town in [[Sweden]]).
85: ...[[1839]] - [[Lanthanum]] discovered by [[Carl Gustaf Mosander]]
87: **[[Terbium]] discovered by [[Carl Gustaf Mosander]] - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
14: ...rl from a poor family, but his father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', thou...
18: Ever after his exit from the Bastille in April [[1718]] h...
24: ...ve remark, he was waylaid by Beauregard some time after in a less privileged place and soundly beaten.
32: ...d with his usual sharpness of tongue, and shortly afterwards, when dining with the duke of Sully, was ...
36: Soon after his arrival, [[George I of Great Britain|Georg... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
16: In the year [[1741]] Euler became director of the mathematical class...
85: * ''Lexikon der Naturwissenschaftler'', Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg, 2... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
19: * [[1707]]: After [[Aurangzeb]]'s death, the [[Mughal Empire]] e...
25: ...un|Afghans]] conquer Iran, ending the [[Safavids|Safavid dynasty]].
29: ...h]] of [[Persian Empire|Persia]] and founds the [[Afsharid dynasty]]. Rules until his death in [[1747]...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Isl...
34: ...h]] founds the [[Durrani Empire]] in modern day [[Afghanistan]]. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
8: ...rge parts of India. However, Britain lost the USA after the American revolution. The [[industrial revo...
17: ...]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Baltic]] power after the [[Great Northern War]].
26: * [[1707]]: After [[Aurangzeb]]'s death, the [[Mughal Empire]] e...
32: * [[1709]]: [[Hotaki dynasty]] founded in Afghanistan.
33: ...[[Charles XII of Sweden]] flees to Ottoman Empire after [[Peter I of Russia]] defeats his army at the ... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
58: ...he [[Media:anichkov_palace.jpg|Anichkov palace]] (1741–1750, many times rebuilt, now a palace for ...
62: ...;1825), famed for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich...
70: ...11), situated on the Nevsky prospect and modelled after [[St. Peter's Basilica|St Peter's, Vatican]]. ...
82: ...;1920), reputedly the largest in Europe, is built after the model of [[Timur]]id temples in [[Samarkan...
94: ...nment institutions were housed in the [[General Staff]] building on the [[Palace Square]] (1820–... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
5: In the tumultuous aftermath of the American Revolutionary War, the fle...
9: ...mework to bind together the independent states, drafted the Articles of Confederation in 1777. The pri...
15: ... had limited powers, primarily focused on foreign affairs, defense, and disputes between states.
28: ...stitutional Convention of 1787, where delegates drafted the United States Constitution, supplanting th...
36: ...dopted the Articles on [[November 15]], [[1777]], after 16 months of debate. The Articles then languis...
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