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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 - 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 ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...th]], the scene of many episodes in her writings; after the death of her father in 1805, Jane, her sis... - Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (3576 bytes)
4: ...nasty]]. The splintering of the land accelerated after the reign of the Thirteenth Dynasty king [[Nef... - 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...
58: ...like [[Julius Caesar]] before him or [[Napoleon]] after him—he probably would have been able to ... - 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: ..., from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in that position by [[Richard...
41: ...publishers) it thus became the first book by an [[African American]] to be officially published. He ma... - 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...
141: ...axes in Virginia to support churches. Instead, in 1786 the [[Virginia General Assembly]] passed Jefferso...
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... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
80: ...l of Malacca. The British took control of Malacca after the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824|Anglo-Dutch T...
82: ... Sultan of Kedah. Malacca came into British hands after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty; and two years later th...
84: ...ements saw British government intervention in the affairs of the tin producing states in the Malay Pen...
94: After the [[May 13 Incident|racial riots]] of 1969, ...
200: ...ities. Students can opt to go to private colleges after secondary studies. Most colleges have educatio... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
81: ...ied on a system of [[toll plaza]]s at which all traffic would stop and pay an incremental fare, rather...
83: ...vily crowded, along with parking facilities and traffic at the stations. Funds to relieve the situatio...
93: ...n]] equipment (especially [[helicopters]], [[aircraft]] parts, and [[nuclear submarine]]s), heavy indu...
97: ...he merchants and manufacturers themselves, became affluent enough to start buying things. Manufacturin...
99: ... to sell rifles to the government until [[1825]]. After this period, firearm manufacturing declined in... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...rginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1776]], the [[Virginia Convent...
52: ...y rejoined the Union on [[January 26]], [[1870]], after a period of post-war military rule.
54: ...]], [[1990]], [[Douglas Wilder]] became the first African American to serve as Governor of a US state ...
72: *Governor's Chief of Staff
81: *Secretary of Public Safety - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than dust is, and follows...
21: ...l cause them to permanently exit the solar system after one pass by the Sun. On the other extreme, the...
25: ...as discovered in [[1869]] but became unobservable after [[1908]] due to perturbations by Jupiter, and ...
29: ...erers. Later, periodic comets were usually named after their discoverers, but comets that had appeare...
31: ...common, and this remains today. A comet is named after up to three independent discoverers. In recent... - 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...
49: *[[Gasp饠Affair|''Gasp饧' Affair]] - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
48: *[[1786]] - [[Shays' Rebellion]]
49: *[[1786]] - [[Annapolis Convention]] fails - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
36: *[[1832]] - [[Department of Indian Affairs]] established
37: ... re-elected amid struggle with [[Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844)|Nicholas Biddle]] over the fate of the [[Se...
48: *[[1837]] - [[Caroline Affair]] - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
9: ...-[[socialism|socialist]], guillotined in [[1797]] after a ''[[coup d'etat|coup]]'' attempt
10: ...he [[Tennis Court Oath]], made mayor of [[Paris]] after the [[storming of the Bastille]], guillotined ...
16: ..., effectively [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s chief of staff
17: ...las Billaud-Varenne]] - on [[Committee of Public Safety]], more radical [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robes...
29: ...ery of the terrible state of French finances in [[1786]] precipitated the Revolution crisis - 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...
115: ...e Kraków Academy, of which he was rector in 1783-1786. An organizer of the townspeople's movement, in 1... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
166: *[[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], (1742-1786), Swedish [[18th century]] chemist, discovered nu... - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
1: ...urdens. The rebellion started on [[August 29]], [[1786]].
3: ...lion was precipitated by credit problems incurred after the [[American Revolutionary War]], when many ...
7: ...rced many of the credit schemes at the time, be staffed by elected rather than appointed officials. Th...
9: ...[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], and elsewhere. After the passage of the [[Riot Act]], the Regulator... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
21: ...sion by floats on a chain, obtained a patent in [[1786]], then built a steamboat which underwent a succe...
30: ...eum ship]] at [[Winona, Minnesota]]. For modern craft operated on rivers, see the [[riverboat]] articl...
42: People have had a particular affection for the [[Clyde puffer]]s, small steam fre...
49: ...a]], and arrived at [[San Francisco, California]] after the 4-month, 21-day journey.
51: ...]] where trade around the world became cheap and safe. - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
6: ...hment of the First Continental Congress was the drafting of the [[Articles of Association]] on [[Octob...
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
29: *Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
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