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- List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
6: *[[Bernard Accama|Accama, Bernard]] (1697-1756), Dutch painter
26: *[[Franz Ackerman|Ackerman, Franz]] (c1330-1387)
34: *[[Georg Friedrich Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Friedrich]] (1787-1843)
39: ...Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Christian Gottlieb]] (1756-1801) - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
9: *[[Olof Ũlstr?hlstr?Olof]] ([[1756]]-[[1835]]), composer
14: *[[Alfred Aho|Aho, Alfred V.]], computer scientist - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis XIV of France]].''
3: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|frame|H.I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Quee...
4: ...stria]], and Queen of [[Hungary]] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when ...
8: ...g of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]. She had 16 children by him,...
26: ...arried [[Louis XVI of France|HM King Louis XVI of France]] (1754-1793); had issue - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...[[1740]] - [[1748]]) and the [[Seven Years War]] (1756-63). Her domestic policies allowed the nobles to ...
9: ... these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by h...
11: ...tention to marry his second daughter to the young French king [[Louis XV]], but the pride of the [[Bou...
13: ...d her fathers sensual temperament and, being free from all control, abandoned herself to her appetites...
19: ... seems to have been first suggested to her by the French ambassador, La Chetardie, who was plotting to... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
14: ...ds alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular ang...
16: ...uard mechanism (see [[Jacquard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of stea...
21: ...r Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invent...
26: The warp threads are set up on the frame of the loom before weaving begins. A number o...
30: ...al carpet production are: [[Turkey]], [[Northern Africa]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Iran]], [[Nepal]], [[Tu... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions in North Americ...
5: ...the Conquest), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became par...
9: ...rench and Indian Wars]]) between the British, the French, and their Indian allies, following the confl...
13: ...[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] and then captured New France's capital.
15: ...of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French speaking populations in [[Acadia]] to Louisia... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ... later drawn into the [[conflict]], while a force from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was ...
3: ...nly to the [[Europe]]an portions of the conflict (1756–1763), not the nine-year North American con...
8: ...strian Succession]]. During that conflict, King [[Frederick II of Prussia]] had gained the rich provin...
10: ...e)|Hanoverian]] possession as being threatened by France. Great Britain's alliance with Prussia was a ...
14: ...ire|Great Britain]] and [[French colonial empires|France]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
29: *[[Franklin Adams]] - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ..., or "YOOR-ə-nus") is the seventh [[planet]] from the [[Sun]]. It is a [[gas giant]], the third l...
157: ... regions of Uranus receive a greater energy input from the Sun than its equatorial regions. Uranus is ...
168: ...n [[1748]], [[1750]] and [[1753]]; [[Mayer]] in [[1756]]. [[Lemonnier]] observed it four times in [[1750...
172: ...rgium Sidus'' or "the Georgian" were still used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The fi...
179: ...nditions. It can be easily found with binoculars. From Earth it has a diameter of 4". Even in large te... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: '''Aaron Burr, Jr.''' ([[February 6]], [[1756]]–[[September 14]], [[1836]]) was an [[Unit...
13: ...from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
14: ...al law]], and quickly restored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health...
18: ...fe were married for twelve years, until her death from [[cancer]].
20: ...umel. When she realized her fortune was dwindling from her husband's land speculation, they separated ... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
7: ...mation of the [[Cathay Company]] to send [[Martin Frobisher]] back to the New World for more gold
9: *[[1756]] - [[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New ...
11: ...oleonic)|Italian Republic]], with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] as president, becomes the [[Kingdo...
14: *[[1886]] - [[Carrollton Massacre]]: 20 [[African American]]s are killed in [[Mississippi]].
21: ...y opened by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
34: *[[Eugene M. Antoniadi]] ([[Greece]], [[France]], [[1870]] – [[1944]])
36: *[[Francois Arago]] ([[France]], [[1786]] – [[1853]])
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], ...
47: *[[Adrien Auzout]] ([[France]], [[1622]] – [[1691]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: In [[1756]] he entered the navy, and was some time with [[S...
5: ...through the desertion of his Indians; his second (from [[23 February]] [[1770]]) through the breaking ...
7: ... he was taken prisoner by the French under [[Jean-Fran�ois de La P�rouse|La P�rouse]] in 1782. H... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
1: ...er aged 49 (oil painting by [[Emanuel Handmann]], 1756)]]
3: ...ction (mathematics)|function]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an [...
29: ...f laws of motion in [[fluid dynamics]], directly from [[Newton's laws of motion]]. These equations ...
37: ...ical analysis, it was Euler who synthesised [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s differential [[calculus]] ...
41: ...{2^2} + \frac{1}{3^2} + \frac{1}{4^2} + \cdots = \frac{\pi^2}{6}</math>, - 18th century (8231 bytes)
3: ...entury''''' refers to the [[century]] that lasted from [[1701]] through [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian ca...
5: ...ial]] capacity) were: [[Austria]], [[Britain]], [[France]], [[Prussia]], and [[Russia]].
9: ...t and create new competition in Europe other than France, England, and Spain.
11: ... parents. In [[Asia]], exploration and influences from Europe were beginning to shake the structures o...
20: * [[1715]]: [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] dies - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
2: The '''18th century''' lasted from [[1701]] to [[1800]] in the [[Gregorian calenda...
4: ..., [[July 14]], [[1789]], an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the ...
6: ...urope embraced enlightenment ideals, but with the French revolution, they were on the side of the coun...
8: ...became a major power worldwide with the defeat of France in the Americas in the 1760s and the conquest...
21: ...]]-[[1715]]: [[Camisard|Camisard Rebellion]] in [[France]]. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
1: ... was admired by later composers and his works are frequently played today.
11: ...birth. Mozart received intensive musical training from his father, including instruction in both the [...
19: ...in performance, then wrote it out in its entirety from memory, only returning a second time to correct...
23: ...e was so taken by the sound created by [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s [[glass harmonica]] that he composed se...
29: ...1784–1858) or [[Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart|Franz Xaver Wolfgang]] (later a minor composer himse...
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