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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
59: *[[John Quincy Adams|Adams, John Quincy]], (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...ortrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
5: ...lso examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the au...
7: ...as educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette...
10: ...plementary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ... of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any subject that he approached, th... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
26: ...etts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]].
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[July 11]], [[1767]]
16: | vicepresident=[[John Caldwell Calhoun]]
18: '''John Quincy Adams''' ([[July 11]], [[1767]] – [[February 23]], [[1848]]) was the sixt...
22: ... from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then ...
26: ...1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the ... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
9: | date of birth= March 15, 1767
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ...er been a member of the [[Virginia]] plantation [[elite]], or had been named [[Adams]]. Jackson, nickn...
22: ...islike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favor and emula...
24: ...nd-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military ca... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
7: == Timeline ==
12: * [[1767]]: Surveyor of Forth and Clyde canal.
22: ...ing wind and watermills.) He invented the [[parallel motion]] [[Linkage (mechanical engineering)|linka...
24: ...y in heating the [[piston]] and chamber. Watt developed a separate [[condenser]] chamber which signif...
26: ... of his 'catch-all' patents. Boulton proved an excellent businessman, and both men eventually made for... - Delaware (15006 bytes)
2: Name = Delaware |
3: Fullname = State of Delaware |
4: Flag = Delaware state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Delaware]] |
6: Seal = Delaware state seal.png | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: [[image:Spinning jenny.jpg|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, G...
2: ...'spinning jenny''' is a multi-spool [[spinning wheel]]. It was invented circa 1764 by [[James Hargreav...
6: ... Jenny, knocked over one of their own spinning wheels. The device kept working as normal, with the spi...
8: ... in the roving beam allowed the operator to then release all the threads at once, to be collected on s...
10: ...abric, using stronger yarn for the warp. Later developments improved the quality of the yarn and incre... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: ...r]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), and ended with the election of [[George Washington]] as the first [[Pre...
10: .... Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown, with the ...
16: [[The Enlightenment]] elevated [[natural philosophy]] and began to replace...
18: ===Religious trends===
19: ...science and experience as the source of value in religious experience. It started or increased the pre... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
8: *[[1763]] - [[Pontiac's Rebellion]] begins
15: *[[1767]] - [[Townshend Acts]]
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Corresponde...
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]] - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
3: ...]]. Artist: [[Daniel Chodowiecki]]. Engraver: Daniel Berger.]]
5: ...e [[1765]] [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]] and the [[1767]] [[Townshend acts]] incensed passions regarding ...
7: ...a Act]], which allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the [[13 colonies|colonies]] without the ...
9: ...nder the protection afforded by British armed vessels.
11: ...There, three ships—the ''Dartmouth'', the ''Eleanor'' and the ''Beaver''—were loaded with ... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
3: ...ssion in the [[British Army]], and was eventually elevated to the rank of [[general]]. His name is a ...
6: ... married Margaret Mansfield on [[February 22]], [[1767]]. They had three sons; Margaret died [[June 19]]...
9: ...husetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely offensive military expedition by the colonists a...
10: ...deroga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were not aware that a war was in prog...
12: ...discovering this, Arnold challenged Easton to a duel, but Easton refused. - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ... of the [[Lunar Society]] and was also elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Frankli...
11: ...y included: Elizabeth ([[March 2]] [[1678]]), Samuel ([[May 16]], [[1681]]), and Hannah ([[May 25]], [...
15: ...he [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
23: ...ivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great deal of socia...
27: ...libraries in other American cities, and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenmen... - Annapolis, Maryland (7226 bytes)
9: ...ounty = [[Anne Arundel County, Maryland|Anne Arundel County]] |
10: mayor = [[Ellen O. Moyer]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|D...
25: ...at]] of [[Anne Arundel County, Maryland|Anne Arundel County]]. As of the [[2000]] census, its populati...
28: ... south shore and the town was renamed [[Anne Arundel]]'s Towne after the wife of [[C棩lius Calvert, 2...
36: ...te house and instructed [[Pierre L'Enfant]] to model the dome of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol b... - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
3: ...egational]] ministers, leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.
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48: ...t they consider the needs and rights of women as well as of men in forming the new country.
52: ...il became a good friend to [[Martha Washington]] helped in official entertaining, drawing on her exper... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[198...
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] &ndash...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
37: *[[Sylvain Arend]] ([[Belgium]], [[1902]] – [[1992]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]])
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