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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1...
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wi... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...r was residing. He immediately fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant abou...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
13: ... result, Catherine the Great instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she ...
21: ...e made Russia the dominant power in the [[Middle East]] after her [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774|first ...
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: ...relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladie... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: ...his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India Company]] eventually led to the [[Boston Te...
27: From [[1780]]–[[1785]], he was [[governor of Massachusetts]]. Hancock'...
36: ... in Congress assembled]], from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in th...
57: ...er=[[Nathaniel Gorham]]| years=[[November 23]], [[1785]] – [[May 29]], [[1786]]}}
58: ...)''| after=[[Thomas Cushing]]| years=1780 – 1785}} - John Adams (18716 bytes)
48: ...s]] to the fisheries along the British-American coast should be recognized. Eventually the American neg...
50: In [[1785]] John Adams was appointed the first American min...
57: ...kney]], the other Federalist in the contest (at least in part so that Jefferson would not become vice p...
64: ... Adams died at Quincy, after uttering the famous last words "Thomas Jefferson still survives." (Unbekno...
102: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
35: ...gricultural nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, in contrast to the vision of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who envi...
102: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]...
161: ..." (''Notes on the State of Virginia'', [[1781]]-[[1785]] Query 18). Though not religious himself, he vie...
178: ...rson, or a close relative, may have fathered at least one of Hemings' children [http://www.samsloan.com...
231: ...amin Franklin]] | after=[[William Short]] | years=1785-1789}} - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...heid|rheic]] upper [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] ([[asthenosphere]]) via processes that are collectively ...
5: [[Astrogeology]] refers to the application of geologic ...
12: ...he work on rocks ''Peri lithōn'' by [[Theophrastus]], a student of [[Aristotle]], remained authori...
20: ...often viewed as the first modern geologist. In [[1785]] he presented a paper entitled ''Theory of the E...
26: ...theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter. T... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
46: ...rth America]], eventually applying to the whole coast from [[South Carolina]] to [[Maine]]. The [[Lond...
57: ...stone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]].
59: ... changed, making it necessary for men to own at least fifty acres (200,000 m²) of land in order to...
61: ... By the time of the Constitution of 1901, which lasted longer than any other state constitution, the '... - 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]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]])
1310: *[[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]] ([[1785]]-[[1841]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
20: ... - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
68: *[[Karl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisin...
73: *[[George Eastman]], (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — ...
77: *[[John S. Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple ...
100: *[[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
10: ...c's Rebellion]]—had, if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonis...
77: *[[Northwest Indian War]] ([[1785]]-[[1795]])
80: ... produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[French Revoluti... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
24: ...he [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously involved in politics...
46: ...cepted. Both men had been noted duelists in the past, but Hamilton had qualms because his beloved son,...
57: ...l Burr, who had purchased land shares from the [[Bastrop Grant]] in [[Texas]]. His expedition of perha...
59: ...o President Jefferson — and his Spanish paymasters. Jefferson's passivity throughout most of [[1...
61: ...he Southwest, and perhaps to found an imperial dynasty in Mexico. This seems to have been a misdemeano... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
9: ... inflated with hot air. Its flight covered 2 km, lasted 10 minutes, and had an estimated altitude of 16...
22: ...g a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Bal... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
17: ...[[William Henry (delegate)|William Henry]] of Lancaster, [[Pennsylvania]], having learned of Watt's eng...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
39: ...ces had started across the [[Irish Sea]] to [[Belfast]]. By [[1900]] there were over 300 [[Clyde steame...
40: ...], is the last survivor of these fleets, and the last sea-going [[paddle steamer]] in the world. This s...
44: ...king passengers on their trips from [[Glasgow]], past the [[Isle of Arran]], down the [[Firth of Clyde]... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ... as their common opposition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 2...
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
27: *Jan 11, 1785- Nov. 4, 1785 [[New York, New York]]
28: *Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786 - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
46: ...]]; six with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] and one as [[Master of Arts]].
67: ...urn home in [[1775]] he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to [[Massachuset...
69: ...pendence. Ben Franklin remained in France until [[1785]], a favorite of French society. Franklin was so ...
71: When Franklin was recalled to America in 1785, Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait ...
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