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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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 - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ..., Catherine's lover at the time, headed a conspiracy in which Catherine led a group of troops to the p...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
33: ...n le Rond d'Alembert|D'Alembert]], all French [[encyclopedist]]s who later cemented her reputation in ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
34: ...g spied upon by her mother's ambassador, Comte Mercy d'Argenteau, who reported with great frustration ...
61: ...ntire country was standing on the edge of bankruptcy. [[Louis XIV]]'s wars with [[William III of Engla...
71: ...[Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran篩s|Louis-Jos鰨]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and S... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...an important precedent of [[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
51: ... out an offensive against the [[Iroquois Confederacy]], which had allied with the British and attacked...
53: ...n found out about a [[Newburgh conspiracy|conspiracy]] that was being planned by some of his officers ...
55: ==Activities between Revolution and Presidency ==
62: ...elieve that the [[Framers]] created the [[Presidency]] with Washington in mind. After the Convention, ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...s born in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]] (Now [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]). His father died when he was yo...
25: In the first month of his presidency, on [[June 19]], [[1775]], Hancock commissioned [...
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.)
41: ... to be officially published. He married Dolly Quency. He was also a [[Freemasonry|Free Mason]]. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...fferson dined alone." Achievements of his presidency include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewi...
30: ...ed [[archaeology]], a discipline then in its infancy. He has sometimes been called the ''"[[List of pe...
39: ...as the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serve two full terms as of [[2005]].
49: ==Presidency==
52: ...] and the first [[Democratic-Republican]] presidency. - United States (58223 bytes)
2: (poetically) '''Columbia'''—is a [[democracy|democratic]] [[federal republic]] of fifty [[U.S....
38: currency = [[United States dollar|US dollar]] ([[$]]) |
39: currency_code = USD |
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
60: ... war in [[1865]], the dissolution of the Confederacy, and the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United Sta... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
22: ...rking cycle of the engine, so showing its efficiency.
24: ... Further refinements ([[insulation]] of the steam cylinder, the double-acting engine, a counter, an in...
32: ==Legacy==
33: ...rted a machine of limited use to one of [[efficiency]] and many applications. It was the foremost ener... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
68: ...arl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisine]])
169: ...], (1832-1891), [[Germany]] — [[four-stroke cycle]] [[engine]]
197: *[[Percy Shaw]] — cat's eyes
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
30: ... [[George Grenville]]'s [[Sugar Act]] and [[Currency Act]] created economic hardship in the colonies. ...
62: ...d during the [[French and Indian War]], but was recycled to encourage the American colonies to unite a...
87: ==Legacy and interpretations== - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
10: *[[1764]] - [[Currency Act]], passed by [[Parliament]]
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)
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
60: ...ferson]], who was serving as [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|Ambassador]] to [[France]] at the time, was neit... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
149: ... is more or less uniformly distributed. Uranus' [[cyan]] color is due to the absorption of [[red]] lig...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
172: ...of [[Uppsala]], proposed the names ''Astraea'', ''Cybele'', and ''Neptune'' (now borne by two [[astero... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
88: *1942 - [[Nancy Parsons]], Amnerican actress (d. [[2001]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
34: ...lery salute. Across the sea, [[Ambassador (diplomacy)|ambassador]]s John Adams and [[Benjamin Franklin...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ... between [[1789]] and [[1799]], in which [[democracy|democrats]] and [[republicanism | republican]]s o...
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
81: ... Assembly began to become clearer. The [[aristocracy|aristocrat]] [[Jacques Antoine Marie Cazal賝] an...
107: ...erty, the government introduced a new paper currency, ''[[assignat]]s'', backed by the confiscated chu...
128: ...e the [[Jacobin Club]]: according to the [[1911 Encyclop椩a Britannica]], one hundred and fifty-two c... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
18: ... previous basic notions of the sources of legitimacy.
37: ...lightenment thinking began in France with the [[Encyclopédistes]]. The premise of their enterprise wa...
64: ...hisms, largely along political control of the papacy, but along doctrinal lines between Roman Catholic...
68: ...ce in the development of [[liberalism]], [[democracy]] and constitutional government which followed.
79: ...ditions, and therefore analogized itself to the Encyclopediasts and other philosophes. A variety of 20... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
11: ...agencies, regulatory commissions, and the presidency.
33: ...stration]] and the [[Environmental Protection Agency]].
45: ...andling only certain kinds of cases. The bankruptcy courts are branches of the district courts, but t...
47: ...and some direct appeals from [[administrative agency|administrative agencies]]. The [[Supreme Court o...
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