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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
13: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Anna (1738-1739)
15: ...763), then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]...
35: ...ttack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ally of ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...id nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her fiction.
5: ...girls of her time, and took early to writing, her first tale being begun in [[1798]]. Her life was a s...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northang...
12: ...presence of women. Some contemporary readers may find the world she describes, in which people's chie...
18: * ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: ...m, ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidence), Unity, Discipline) |
10: official_languages = [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[E...
16: largest_city = [[Karachi]] (also [[financial capital]]) |
69: ...he [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entire area ...
74: ...llowed to return to India and died in solitary confinement in 1862. The Emperor's three sons, also inv... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
19: ...9]] - [[George Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[...
10: *[[1760]] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys ...
15: ...ng Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].
18: ...w Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skating]] championship takes place.
20: ... Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]]. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
10: He was the fifth child of his parents, preceded by twin boys (o...
14: ...ed to remove him from such society by sending him first to [[Caen]] and then, in the suite of the marq...
16: ...lampoon]]s on him. In May [[1716]] he was exiled, first to [[Tulle]], then to [[Sully]], later, having...
20: ...seems to have begun his long series of successful financial speculations.
28: ..., ''Marianne'', appeared and was well received at first but underwent complete damnation before the cu... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
19: ...onsidering that he was the first in his family to finish school), Bach took a post as organist at [[Ar...
22: ... [[counterpoint]] but also for exploring, for the first time, the full glory of keys — and the m...
24: ...k introduces two major themes into Bach's corpus: firstly, his dedication to teaching, and secondly, h...
32: ...hat in Germany he is sometimes referred to as the Fifth [[Evangelist]].
40: ...marriage. Anna supported Johann's composing (many final scores are in her hand) while he encouraged he... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...= F(''x''). He is credited with being one of the first to apply [[calculus]] to [[physics]].
5: ...fic mathematician of all time, his collected work filling 75 volumes. He dominated [[eighteenth centu...
10: ...sked him to allow his son to study mathematics he finally agreed and Euler began to study mathematics.
12: ...thematics appointment in [[1733]]. Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to [[mech...
20: ...te down a complete mathematical proof between the first and the second call for supper. - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
7: ...til]]s of [[flower]]s lay the basis for the classification of [[plant]]s, and he wrote a short work on...
9: In [[1732]] the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his expedition to explore [[Laponia|Lapland...
11: ... be said to have popularized it within the scientific community.
15: ...med for their mammary glands because one of the defining characteristics of mammals is that they nurse...
18: ...d, the [[Lutheran]] Linnaeus would have been horrified by it. Linnaeus was only attempting a convenien... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
5: European history scholars will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th century as [[1715]]-[[1789...
9: ...ld generate the [[peasant revolt]]s that, for the first time, would begin to shake the old ways and fe...
23: * [[1721]]: [[Robert Walpole]] becomes the first [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime M...
30: * [[1739]]: [[Nadir Shah]] defeats the [[Mughal Empire|Mug...
46: ...anish]] [[missionary|missionaries]] establish the first of 21 [[Spanish Missions of California|mission... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250p...
6: ...f Maximlien de Robespierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenme...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the ev...
14: [[File:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke o... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
36: ...f the river Neva at the east end of the [[Gulf of Finland]] on the [[Baltic Sea]].
52: ... the outdoor museum of [[Neoclassicism]], was the first Russian patrimony inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] ...
62: ...med for its opulent interiors and named after its first lodger, Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, now hous...
70: ...chitect, [[Auguste de Montferrand]]. Another magnificent church in the [[Empire style]] is the [[Kazan...
74: ...1728–1740), St Pantaleon church (1735–1739), and St Andrew Cathedral (1764–1780) are a...
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