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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ction machines for manufacturing in other industries.
3: ...ut [[1850]], when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-po...
5: ...[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|nomadic lifestyle]].
9: ==Causes==
10: ...on]] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...ution in the alloy controls the qualities of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content...
5: ...alloying materials, and carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are ...
8: ...dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting results in an alloy containing too much carbon to be ...
11: ...ts [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]]. - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: ...459.jpg|thumb|right|230px|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias]]
3: ... of [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] and Empress of [[Russia]] from [[1725]] until her death. Wit...
5: ...to minister Gluck of [[Marienburg]]. Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to...
7: ... Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress. In [[1705]], she converted to [[Orthodoxy]] an...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]]) - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...etrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...[[St Petersburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow...
5: ==Life before becoming Empress==
7: ...oye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married at that time, ...
9: ...es with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordina... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...ctics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that Scotland ...
12: ...he English armies in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].
15: ...aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne, Duchesse d'Orl顮s]]. Anne returned from France in [[167...
17: ...James II continued to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conv...
19: ...illiam and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage. - Blast furnace (4721 bytes)
1: ...the chamber such that the [[chemical reaction]] does not take place only at the surface. Typically th...
4: ...|flux]]. The oldest known blast furnaces in the West were built in [[Sweden]] at Lapphyttan, sometime...
6: ... blast furnace-based iron smelting significantly less expensive.
8: ==Process==
9: ...ng combustion in the middle of the mixture. The results of this localized burning was a liquid that s... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait Gallery, London|Nationa...
2: ... and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], ...
4: ...e continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have ...
6: ... uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 ye...
8: ...ases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works. - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
7: ...n the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] befor...
9: ...g Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cruised to [[Manila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China]...
11: ...a the [[Cape of Good Hope]], penniless but in possession of his journals.
16: ...Voyage Round the World'' in [[1697]] created interest at the British [[Admiralty]] and in [[1699]] Dam...
18: ...n]], discovering the [[Dampier Strait]] between these islands (now the [[Bismarck Islands]]) and New G... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...tory 1688-1832 (The Arnold History of Britain Series) |publisher=A Hodder Arnold Publication| year=199...
6: ...spierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenment ideals, but with...
8: ...l revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radical...
11: ===[[1700–1709]]===
13: ...Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700)]] - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
6: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
17: * [[1767]]: [[Spinning jenny]]: [[James Hargreaves]]
18: * [[1767]]: [[Carbonated water]]: [[Joseph Priestley]]
19: * [[1769]]: [[Steam engine]]: [[James Watt]]
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