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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
15: ...ank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
28: ... Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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 ==
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - 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: ...nette's life changed suddenly at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 10th May [[1774]] when King [[Louis XV]...
43: Shortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to ... - 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...
51: ... Arnold]] won the [[Battle of Saratoga]] in 1777. After Monmouth, the British concentrated their offen...
53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg... - 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 ...
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
36: After the war, Hancock represented his state under t... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
25: ... unanimously solicited Jefferson to prepare the draft of the Declaration alone.
37: ... [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidential elect...
143: ...which he approved. This compilation was published after his death and became known as the ''[[Jefferso...
147: ... part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use go...
155: ...t the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After long [[Federalist papers|debate]], this was su...
60: ...though full emancipation did not take place until after the end of the war in [[1865]], the dissolutio...
66: ...ered a [[U.S. invasion of Afghanistan|war against Afghanistan]] and later a [[2003 invasion of Iraq|wa...
74: ...ers of the federal government to defense, foreign affairs, printing money, controlling trade and relat...
90: ...ticular area. These laws concern issues such as traffic, the sale of alcohol, and keeping animals. The... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
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. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...d in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered ...
10: Thus, it would be safest to use the term "asteroid" for Solar System ob...
24: ...ics. It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discovere...
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
58: ...and [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Piazzi named it after [[Ceres]], the Greek goddess of agriculture. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
3: ...[list of scientists]], [[List of inventions named after people]], [[timeline of invention]], [[invento...
52: ...rell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) — [[Hovercraft]]
158: ...an-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
168: ...is]] — passenger elevator and concommitant safety device
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi... - 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: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
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...
49: *[[Gasp饠Affair|''Gasp饧' Affair]] - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ... The [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]], coming after a dozen years of escalating political conflict...
9: ...ndependence|Declaration of Independence]]. The drafting of the Declaration was the responsibility of ...
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
21: ...ain, preoccupied by civil war and other problems. After the conclusion of the world war, known in Euro...
25: ...tinental Congress]] first met in May 1775, in the aftermath of armed clashes between [[Massachusetts]]... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
145: ...m]] named after a Greek god: all others are named after [[Roman mythology|Roman deities]]. Its symbol ...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
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]... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
14: ...of Safety (Hawaii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuoka...
16: ...con Scott]] reaches the [[South Pole]], one month after [[Roald Amundsen]].
28: * [[1966]] - [[Carl Brashear]], the first [[African American]] [[United States Navy]] diver, is ...
63: *[[1914]] - [[William Stafford]], poet and essayist (d. [[1993]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
23: ...worked the text of the Declaration until a little after eleven o'clock, July 4th, when twelve [[colony...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
43: ...izes and types allowed, but [[Smuggling|illicit traffic]] brings some of the more powerful [[firecrack... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...tween republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the [[French First Republic|First Republic]] f...
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
42: ... clear that they intended to conduct the nation's affairs with or without them.
55: On [[July 14]], [[1789]], after four hours of combat, the insurgents seized th...
57: ...east for the time being. [[Marquis de la Fayette|Lafayette]] took up command of the National Guard at ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...us wars. When the political situation stabilized after the [[Peace of Westphalia]] and at the end of ...
16: ...tone for much of what would follow in the century after the publication of his ''[[Philosophiae Natura...
31: ...sertion that law governed both heavenly and human affairs, and that law invested the king with his pow...
108: ...ailed by contemporaries as "the Prince of Poets." After the election of [[Stanisław August Poniatowsk...
116: * [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] (1729-1781) ''German'' Dramatist, critic, political philosop... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
26: ...the president has broad powers to manage national affairs and the workings of the federal government.
33: ...he President. These include the [[White House]] staff, the [[United States National Security Council|N...
49: ...Congress, or a treaty of the United States; cases affecting ambassadors, ministers, and consuls of for...
53: The Constitution safeguards judicial independence by providing that [[...
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