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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant abou...
13: ... result, Catherine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she ...
21: ...ved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years after it had gained independ...
27: ...onarchies and a balance of power in 18th-century Eastern Europe for another century. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
27: ...apsburg princess]] to talk to a lady with such a past. Du Barry therefore set about to make Marie-Antoi...
28: [[Image:Versailles_castle.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Palace of Versaille...
32: ...tiful and ambitious aristocrat, [[Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac|Gabrielle, Comtesse de P...
57: ...gardens were re-designed to suit the queen's new tastes.
59: ... Royale'' showed Marie-Antoinette [[masturbation|masturbating]], and later pamphlets would suggest that... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...s went to sea, eventually becoming admirals. In [[1783]], she was educated briefly by a relative in [[Ox... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
5: ...ad refused to publish the text. Phillis with her master's son, Nathanial Wheatley went to London, where...
13: ...amuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783'' - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United ...
33: ...take the Ohio Country. The expedition ended in disaster at the [[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Mono...
51: ...ement of his orders for "total destruction and devastation of their settlements" led the Iroquois to na...
53: ...r in [[1783]], by means of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]], the [[Kingdom of Great Britai...
58: On [[December 23]], [[1783]], General George Washington resigned his commiss... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
49: ...gainst the appointment of [[Samuel Swartwout]] ([[1783]]-[[1856]]), who was later a defaulter to a large...
59: ...several states. Calhoun, bitterly hostile to the last, objected to the usual vote of thanks to the reti...
63: ... state elections of [[1837]] and [[1838]] were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery i...
71: ...rhook at 2:00 a.m. on [[July 24]], [[1862]]. His last words were: "There is but one reliance..."
99: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Amos Kendall]]'''|... - United States (58223 bytes)
36: ...]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[[September 3]], [[1783]]<br><br><br>
58: ...volutionary War|Revolutionary War]] (1775–[[1783]]). The original political structure was a [[conf...
76: ... population of the state, and each state has at least one representative. As of the [[United States 200...
80: ...[[President of the Senate]], with the ability to cast a tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, ...
95: ...e|Air Force]]. The [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] is under the [[Department of Homeland Sec... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
59: ...mbia and the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (now [[Ghana]]).
61: ...the regions of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possessio...
157: * [http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us317916/us559898/us559899/us10065674/us559923/ ... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
43: | [[East Caribbean dollar]]
59: ...ually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
61: ...attracted Portuguese immigrants in the 1840s and east Indians in the 1860s. Conditions remained harsh f...
65: ... 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence.
67: ...ny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
39: ...], which included parts of [[Delaware]] and southeastern [[Pennsylvania]]. These territories were taken...
45: ...as two distinct provinces, [[West Jersey]] and [[East Jersey]], for the 28 years between [[1674]] and [...
59: ...earned of the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris]] (1783) which ended the war.
63: ... [[February 15]], [[1804]] New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish [[slavery]] by enacting... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ...ter were united as [[Canada]]. The colonies of [[East Florida]] and [[West Florida]] also remained loya...
42: * [[East Florida]]
58: ...s]], had settlements, but "unofficial" until at least a couple decades later-->
75: ...a/namerica.htm British North American Colonies to 1783 - Military History & Institutions] - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...y related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in the modern conception). [[Technology]] concern...
29: Many ancient civilizations collected astronomical information in a systematic manner throu...
40: ... and is known as the philosophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strang...
48: ===The Middle Ages: Eastern World===
52: ...8th]] centuries, a period of Islamic scholarship lasted until the [[14th century]]. This scholarship wa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
377: *[[Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg]] ([[1783]]-[[1853]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]])
984: *[[Samuel Prout]] ([[1783]]-[[1852]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...nium]], and increasingly, [[Graphite-reinforced_plastic|carbon fiber]], which is prized for its lightne...
19: ...wn human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois...
25: During the last years of the 18th century, [[Sir George Cayley]] ...
33: ...turing his spine. He died the next day, with his last words being "sacrifices must be made". Lilienthal...
41: ...pont Langley]]. After a distinguished career in [[astronomy]] and a tenure at the [[Smithsonian Institu... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) was one part of the revolution, but the revolu...
10: ...c's Rebellion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonis...
80: ... produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[French Revoluti... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ...ndence]]. The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined the original borders of the [[United St... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
46: *[[1783]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]] ends [[United States Revolutionary War]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...ngdom|British]] [[colonies]] along the Atlantic Coast of [[North America]], began meeting in Philadelph...
11: ... Great Britain, settled by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]], which endowed the nascent Uni...
21: ...American colonies]], arrayed along the Atlantic coast of North America. During the 17th and early 18th ...
35: ...h Great Britain was termed the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]].
49: ...he best situated and sited Port on the Atlantic Coast, the State was essential for the success of the U... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
25: TimeZone = Eastern: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] <br><sm...
60: ...in to the United States by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] that ended the [[American Revo...
82: ...er]] and [[General Motors]] were founded in southeastern Michigan.
86: ...ver 7000 people had been arrested. The riot had lasting effects on the entire metro region and is usua...
117: ... square kilometers), making it the largest state east of the Mississippi River if territorial water is ...
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