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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 - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
112: ... of Cambridge|Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge]], (1774-1850) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...luding [[Voltaire]] and [[Diderot]]. In [[1762]], after moving into the new [[Winter Palace]] in [[Sai...
9: ...lyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
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... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...tte Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sop...
10: ... the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' ...
14: ...ered the case of a similar deprivation in the [[deaf and dumb]]. The ''Lettre sur les sourds et muets'...
31: ...government, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages th...
42: ...of ''Le Neveu de Rameau'' to the European public. After executing it, he gave back the original French... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: ...l|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
19: Two and half weeks after leaving [[Vienna]], Maria-Antonia was handed o...
32: ... absolutely devoted to Marie-Antoinette. Not long after meeting Th鲨se, Marie-Antoinette formed a dee...
36: ...denly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774]] when King [[Louis XV]] died of [[smallpox]]. Th...
43: Shortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to ... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc...
52: ...arch 29]], [[1790]], was the first president born after the adoption of the [[United States Constituti... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...od at Ferry Farm in [[Stafford County, Virginia|Stafford County]], near [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fre...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...ead.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became an international incident, and help...
37: By [[1774]], Washington had become one of the colonies' wea...
51: ... Arnold]] won the [[Battle of Saratoga]] in 1777. After Monmouth, the British concentrated their offen... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...rs and suppliers of his uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he...
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...
41: ...publishers) it thus became the first book by an [[African American]] to be officially published. He ma... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ... 1765|Stamp Act]] of [[1765]]. In that year, he drafted the instructions which were sent by the town o...
35: ...s a member of the [[Continental Congress]] from [[1774]] to [[1778]]. In June [[1775]], with a view to p...
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. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ...rginia. His parents Spence Monroe (ca. [[1727]]-[[1774]]) and Elizabeth Jones (born ca. [[1729]]) were w...
36: ...ognize the young sister republics until [[1822]], after ascertaining that Congress would vote appropri...
38: ...olonization by any European Power." Some 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the ...
42: ...tion of Independence]] was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of Presidents [[John Adams]] and [[T...
111: ...enator from Virginia]] | before=[[John Walker]] | after=[[Stevens T. Mason]] | years=[[1790]]–[[... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ... the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by si...
10: national_motto = Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana <br> ''([[Malagasy language|Mal...
53: ... trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite haunt for [[pira...
59: ...Morocco]], and [[Syria]] during [[World War II]]. After France fell to the [[Germany|Germans]], the [[...
61: ...scar revolt|nationalist uprising]] was suppressed after several months of bitter fighting. The French ... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
14: * [[1774]]: Started a business in [[Soho, Birmingham|Soho]...
36: ...wer (physics)|power]], the ''[[watt]]'', is named after him. So is, at least in part, [[Edinburgh]]'s ...
40: There are 4 colleges named after him in Scotland, James Watt College in Kilwinn...
44: There are over 50 roads or streets named after him, in the UK.
57: ..., ''James Watt, Vol 1, His time in Scotland, 1736-1774'' (2002), 480pp, many illus., Landmark Publishing... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
38: ...c|its 14-year period of independence]] during and after the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary...
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...
110: ...in the Vermont legislature for two decades and is affiliated with Vermont's lone congressman, Bernie S... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
435: *[[Caspar David Friedrich]] ([[1774]]-[[1840]])
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]]) - 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...
40: ...used the event to stir up popular resistance, but after the trial of the soldiers, who were defended b...
45: ...ng the area. Furthermore, the [[Quebec Act]] of [[1774]] extended [[Quebec]]'s boundaries to the [[Ohio ... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
23: *[[1774]] - First [[Continental Congress]]
24: *[[1774]] - [[Dunmore's War]]
25: *[[1774]] - British pass [[Intolerable Acts]], including: - Polar bear (6417 bytes)
12: ...r = [[Constantine John Phipps|Phipps]] | date = [[1774]]}} - 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...
71: ...necessary in Upper ("Alta") California. Between [[1774]] and [[1791]], the Crown sent forth a number of ... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
255: | <small>Africa</small>
696: ...Vatican's official list of popes. Died three days after his election, prior to his consecration as bis...
1683: | <small>Giovanni Pietro Carafa</small>
1767: | <small>Maffeo [[Barberini]]</small> - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...hool in Bordeaux, the [[Coll觥 de Guyenne]], and afterwards he studied law in [[Toulouse]] and entere...
18: ...al differences. It was published much later, in [[1774]], under the title ''Travel Journal''.
28: ...branch of the [[University of Bordeaux]] is named after him: ''Universit頍ichel de Montaigne Bordeaux...
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