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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Europe. She corresponded with many of the great mind...
9: ...harles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine drew up a document to reform the cod...
16: ...ronation coach is exhibited in the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
21: .... She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achi...
23: ...n [[1780]] she set up a group designed to defend neutral shipping against [[Great Britain]] during the... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
7: ...ed one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
9: ...oinette met the young child genius [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. He performed a short musical concert f...
11: Maria-Antonia's sisters were soon married off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was m...
43: ...h success. Although King Louis did meet with Choiseul, he did not bring him back to court permanently....
61: ...ance]] with the highest national debt anywhere in Europe. French society was under-taxed and what litt... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
31: ...h eventually became the [[Seven Years' War]] in [[Europe]].
40: ...851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
49: ...k at the [[Battle of Monmouth]] on [[June 28]], [[1778]].
73: In [[1798]], Washington was appointed [[Lieutenant General]] in the [[United States Army]] by ...
77: ...arry Lee]], a Revolutionary War comrade, famously eulogized Washington as "a citizen, first in war, fi... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ...in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the opposition...
35: ...f the [[Continental Congress]] from [[1774]] to [[1778]]. In June [[1775]], with a view to promoting the...
44: In [[1778]], Adams sailed for [[France]] to supersede [[Sil...
46: ... of commerce with Great Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] ...
48: ... States and foreign powers after that of February 1778 with France. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
32: ...imself was never able to produce wine on par with Europe. However, it seems likely that he would be pl...
67: ...f 1807]], an attempt to force respect for U.S. [[neutrality]] by ending trade with the belligerents in...
175: ...slaves in Virginia, but he was unsuccessful. In [[1778]], the legislature passed a bill he proposed to b...
189: ... his religious opinions. Valuable introduction by Eugene Sheridan. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
27: ...re he studied under [[William Peter van Ness]] ([[1778]]-[[1826]]), an eminent lawyer and later [[Aaron ... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...gy" was first used by Jean-Andreluc in the year [[1778]] and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bedict...
12: ...nslated into [[Latin]] and the other languages of Europe such as [[French language|French]]. [[Georg B...
28: ...t]] illustrated on relief globe of the [[Field Museum]] ]]
56: ** [[petroleum geology]] - Equatorial Guinea (13387 bytes)
113: ...se in 1474. The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial...
122: [[Petroleum]] has contributed to a doubling of the populatio... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no ...
66: ...awaii was visited by foreigners well before the [[1778]] arrival of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[explora...
113: ...pitol|Hawaii State Capitol]]. The governor and lieutenant governor oversee the major agencies and dep...
184: ...eigners to arrive upon Hawaii's shores, after the Europeans, were the [[Chinese]]. Chinese employees s... - Washington (20186 bytes)
45: Prior to the arrival of explorers from [[Europe]], this region of the Pacific Coast had many ...
47: The first [[European]] record of a landing on the Washington coa...
49: In [[1778]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] explorer ...
115: The racial makeup of the state is:
277: **[[Brad Owen]], [[lieutenant governor]] - Vermont (39851 bytes)
60: The first [[Europe]]an to see Vermont is thought to be [[Jacques...
62: ...ification]] of Lake Champlain. This was the first European settlement in Vermont and the site of the f...
66: ...a and retreated to other forts along the [[Richelieu River]]. One year later a group of [[Mohawk natio...
68: ... Vermont's far southeast under the command of [[Lieutenant]] Timothy Dwight. This fort protected the n...
82: ...in [[1774]], acted as President of Vermont from [[1778]] to [[1789]] and from [[1790]] to [[1791]]. In [... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
42: ...overnment on March 15, 1776. On [[February 5]], [[1778]] South Carolina became the first state to ratify...
65: The racial makeup of the state is: - Oregon (26551 bytes)
25: ...(all but majority of [[Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]] is in Pacific)</small> |
41: :''state of scenic grandeur and easygoing individualism [that] is writing th...
49: ...z Perce]]. [[James Cook]] explored the coast in [[1778]] in search of the [[Northwest Passage]]. The [[L...
70: ... of the explorations of [[Ren頒obert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]]. Rogers is likely to have heard t...
74: In [[1778]], [[Jonathan Carver]] used '''Oregon''' to label... - Spinning Jenny (3557 bytes)
1: ...g|300px|thumb|Model of the spinning jenny in a museum in Wuppertal, Germany]]
16: ...oderate success" Hargreaves' death on April 22nd, 1778. That year [[Samuel Crompton]] invented the [[spi... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
62: ...nardo DaVinci]], (1452-1519), [[Italy]] — [[euclidean geometry]]
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
111: *[[James Hargreaves]], (1720-1778)
153: *[[Antonio Meucci]], inventor of the telephone
184: *[[Norbert Rillieux|Norbert Rilleaux]], (1806-1894), [[United States... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
39: *[[1778]] - [[Treaty of Alliance]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
13: ... Confederation]], proposed and put into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles...
21: .... After the conclusion of the world war, known in Europe as the [[Seven Years' War]] and in North Amer...
33: ...in turn, joined by Spain and the Netherlands, all European naval powers with an interest in stemming g...
35: ... vast unsettled region nearly as large as Western Europe. The settlement with Great Britain was terme...
60: ...ist nor an Antifederalist, but decided to remain neutral and accept either outcome. However, in letter... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...the known '''history of California''' begins with European exploration.
13: ...zation of the Americas|European explorers]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] app...
16: ===European exploration===
36: The first European to explore the coast of the present day Sta...
80: ...e [[Golden Gate]]; de Portolà became the first [[Europe]]an proven to view [[San Francisco Bay]], dis... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
34: * In [[1778]], General [[George Washington]] marked the Fourt... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
38: *[[Humphry Davy]], (1778-1829)
52: *[[Hans von Euler-Chelpin]], (1873-1964), Swedish chemist, winne...
140: *[[Louis Pasteur]], (1822-1895), French [[biochemistry|biochemist...
157: *[[Tadeus Reichstein]], (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 [[Nobel...
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