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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ... effect, possibly having turned more conservative after the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of...
13: ...ualistic endeavors. Her reforms went even further after a failed peasant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemel...
15: == Foreign affairs ==
21: ...annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years after it had gained independence from the Ottoman Em... - Banksia (1867 bytes)
15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...rs and suppliers of his uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he...
15: ...ggling|smuggle]] glass, lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Li...
19: ...assachusetts, and presided over its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of ...
30: ... score of supplies, if any objects less than the safety of these Posts on this River, and indeed the e...
36: After the war, Hancock represented his state under t... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... Gazette]] (republished separately in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law...
33: In [[1768]] Adams moved to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]...
39: ...Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger Sherman]] to draft a [[United States Declaration of Independence|De...
44: ...constitution]] of [[1780]]. He penned the first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams.
48: ...ties between the United States and foreign powers after that of February 1778 with France. - Nepal (22444 bytes)
37: | [[1768]]
60: ...and the southern Terai and the British retreated. After Nepali [[Gurkhas]] aided the British in quashi...
62: ...n Jung Bahadur Rana seized control of the country after assassinating several hundred princes and chie...
68: ...ndra]] was proclaimed king on [[June 4]]. Shortly afterward, he declared martial law, and dissolved th...
129: ...sorship to the printing of verifiable falsehoods. After an estimated 700 U.S.-based Nepalese rallied f... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
174: *[[James Young|Young, Paraffin]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]])
323: *[[Jean Baptiste Debret]] ([[1768]] - [[1848]])
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...n red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange ...
2: ...and Concord|Lexington and Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown ...
23: After the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebell...
38: ...[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[June 10]], [[1768]]. Angry protests on the street led customs offic...
40: ...used the event to stir up popular resistance, but after the trial of the soldiers, who were defended b... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...m]] named after a Greek god: all others are named after [[Roman mythology|Roman deities]]. Its symbol ...
168: ...]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[...
172: ...ill used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The final holdout was [[HM Nautical Almanac O...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched in [[1977]...
206: ...ared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet. They conclu... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...alization in the population of native inhabitants after European colonization means that most of the k...
21: ... [[1534]] and [[1535]] without finding the sought-after city.
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [...
40: ... chief pilot [[Bartolomé Ferrelo]], sailed north after Cabrillo's death, past [[Point Arena|Cabo de F...
76: Dispatches of [[January 23]], [[1768]] exchanged between King Carlos and the viceroy s... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
5: ... One of the protesters was [[John Hancock]]. In [[1768]], his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was seized by custom...
9: ...ade to forcibly land the tea under the protection afforded by British armed vessels.
21: ...eralatomic.com/AmericanHistory/sloopliberty.html "Affair of the Sloop Liberty"] - 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 ... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...of the [[sea]] while gazing out the shop window. After about a year and half in Staithes, the shop ow...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])==
18: ...nsit of Venus]] across the [[Sun]]. Leaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahi...
49: ... Islands]], which he named the "Sandwich Islands" after the 4th Earl of Sandwich, the acting [[First L... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
19: ...olice open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
27: ...[Moscow]] to [[protest]] the [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]].
31: ...a]] becomes independent after 75 years of [[South Africa]]n rule.
40: *[[1768]] - [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], [[France|Fr...
116: *[[South Africa]]: [[International Day for the Elimination of... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
8: *[[Abu'l-Wafa]] (Iran, [[940]] - [[998]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
150: *[[Pafnuty Chebyshev|Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev]], ([[Russia]], [[May 16]],...
261: ...ourier|Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], (France, [[1768]] - [[1830]])
411: *[[Laurent Lafforgue]] (France, [[1966]] - ) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
1: ...d States]], though that term was not coined until after her death.
48: ...ohn Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1...
50: ...d John Adams at his diplomatic post in [[Paris]]. After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first...
52: ...g on her experience of courts and society abroad. After 1791, poor health forced her to spend as much ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
203: *[[Al-Farghani|Farghani]] ([[Persia]], d. after [[861]])
243: *[[Bengt Gustafsson]], ([[Sweden]])
298: ...ert Thorburn Ayton Innes]] ([[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[1861]] – [[1933]])
302: *[[Cyril V. Jackson]] ([[South Africa]])
333: *[[Robert Kraft]] - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
965: *[[Pierre Laffitte]], (1823-1903){{fn|C}} - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
16: ... regions. Both are considered significant factors affecting water quality.
22: ...m runoff. About 1/3 of the entire system has been affected since the 1960s. - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...k service with the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]. In [[1768]] he examined portions of the [[Hudson Bay]] coas...
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