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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...[[1780]]. Also see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consor...
3: ... Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
4: ...emia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire...
6: ...arles' death ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ne]] with whom she had sixteen children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be p... - 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]]) - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...tion in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...h as [[Voltaire]] and [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] questioned and attacked the existing institutions of b...
8: ...o [[political economy]], [[government]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]...
12: ...The Age of Reason]]." For the present purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; howeve...
14: ...ngs of [[Michel de Montaigne]] and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry i... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: ...[[1716]] and [[1718]]. His final and best known vessel, [[Queen Anne's Revenge]], is believed to have...
4: ...s notorious for weaving [[hemp]] and lighted matches into his enormous black beard during battle. This...
6: ...lish, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] ships. Teach renamed it ''[[Anne of Great Brit...
8: Hornigold then retired, taking advantage of an amnesty extended to privateers.
10: ...hipping and coastal settlements of the [[West Indies]] and the Atlantic coast of [[North America]]. A ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
16: *[[Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] (Italy, [[1718]] - [[1799]])
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
23: *[[Giacomo Albanese]] (Italy, Brazil)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]]) - 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}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
8: ...Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
12: ...making. At the age of ten, he was sent to the [[Jesuit]] Collège Louis-le-Grand, and remained ...
14: ...[The Hague]]. Here he met Olympe Dunoyer, a [[Protestant]] girl from a poor family, but his father sto...
16: ... he was sent to the [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]], [[1717]], here he recast ''Oedipe'', began the ''Henriad...
18: ...o 'v' and 'j' to 'i' according to the ordinary rules of the game. - 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...
13: ...Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1700)]]
15: ...de 9) occurs off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwest]]; the coast of Japan is struck by a [[tsunami]]...
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