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- List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...r, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
14: *[[Arthur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...eat''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novemb...
5: ...onths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by ...
9: ... the [[Yemelyan Pugachev|Pugachev uprising]] of [[1773]] - [[1774]].
11: ...tion the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status here...
13: ...the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the mode... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: ...hylis Wheatley''', was born in [[Senegal]] in [[Africa]], but was captured and sold into [[slavery]] ...
5: ...ral]]'' published in [[Aldgate]], [[London]] in [[1773]]. It was published in London because publishers ...
9: ... of John and Susannah Wheatley, Phillis married a free black grocer named John Peters. She herself did...
14: ...''Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave'' (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Lig...
15: ...ous Subjects, Religious and Moral'' Published in 1773 in England - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: ...od in the history of [[ancient Egypt]] stretching from the establishment of the [[Eleventh dynasty of ...
5: ...ually dated to when [[Pharaoh]] [[Mentuhotep II]] from [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] defeated the last king...
20: ...il and his son [[Amenemhat IV]] ruled 10 years ([[1773 BC]] - [[1763 BC]]) before dying prematurely. - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
2: [[Image:JohnHancockSmall.jpeg|right|frame|Portrait of Hancock [[:Image:JohnHancockLarge....
3: [[Image:John Hancock Signature DOI.jpg|right|frame|Hancock's signature on the [[United States Dec...
8: ...of his uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he inherited the fo...
15: ..., lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounde...
17: ...o newspapers] and John Hancock pays the postage" (Fradin & McCurdy, 2002). - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
27: ...nn Joachim Quantz|Quantz, Johann Joachim]], (1697-1773), composer
29: *[[Francis Quarles|Quarles, Francis]], (1592-1644), poet
45: *[[Francois Quesnay|Quesnay, Francois]], economist
89: ...an篩se]], (b. 1935), French author with pen name Fran篩se Sagan - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]]. - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ink area was claimed by Great Britain after the [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was c...
2: ...ion of [[thirteen colonies]] in [[North America]] from the [[British Empire]] and the creation of the ...
4: ...he revolution originated around the time of the [[French and Indian War]] ([[1754]]–[[1763]]), a...
10: ..., if not conquered, at least pacified the western frontier. Most white colonists in America considered...
19: ...vent that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common exper... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]]'''.
7: *[[1763]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
21: *[[1773]] - [[British Parliament]] passes [[Tea Act]]
22: *[[1773]] - [[Boston Tea Party]] - January 17 (12233 bytes)
5: * [[1562]] - [[France]] recognized the [[Huguenot]]s under the [[Ed...
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first expl...
25: ...Robbery]] - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
28: * [[1966]] - [[Carl Brashear]], the first [[African American]] [[United States Navy]] diver, is i...
44: *[[1463]] - [[Frederick III of Saxony|Friedrich III]], [[Saxony|Saxon]] elector (d. [[1525... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
3: ...ing chests of tea overboard on [[December 18]], [[1773]]. Created/published: [[1784]]. Artist: [[Daniel ...
7: ... to influence public policy in the Colonies. By [[1773]] the Company had large debts, huge stocks of tea...
9: The ships carrying tea were prevented from landing as most American ports turned the tea a...
11: ...ts, possibly organized by [[Samuel Adams]], burst from the [[Old South Meeting House|South Meeting Hou...
13: ...al and British figures. For instance, [[Benjamin Franklin]] stated that the destroyed tea must be rep... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Antoine Baum]], (1728-1804), French chemist
16: *[[Claude Louis Berthollet]], (1748-1822), French chemist
21: *[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
31: ...Skłodowska-Curie]], (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist - James Cook (14770 bytes)
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
30: ... forced his men to eat such foods as [[citrus]] [[fruit]]s and [[sauerkraut]]—under punishment o...
32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began.
34: [[Image:Cookroutes.PNG|frame|center|The routes of Captain James Cook's voya... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...valuate the potential interference of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were alread...
5: ...ieutenant]] at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedi...
7: ...rd. [[Sacagawea]] and her [[Shoshone]] tribe came from further west. Not only did Lewis and Clark feel...
10: ...he men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Most...
16: .... Without these calm meetings, the white settlers from the East would have stormed the Indian Country ... - 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... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...aid to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Militar...
5: ...im's mother was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were gi...
9: ... by the Papacy, for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it pai...
11: [[Image:knights_hospitaller.JPG|framed|right]]
17: ...uired the estates allocated to the English tongue from [[1330]] to [[1358]]. On Rhodes, now known as t... - Tea Act (1279 bytes)
1: ...fterwards, united the colonies even more in their frustrations against Britain, and was but one of the...
3: * [http://ahp.gatech.edu/tea_act_bp_1773.html The full text of the Tea Act] - Oxygen (9039 bytes)
37: ...] and [[bacteria]]). The atmospheric abundance of free oxygen in later geological epochs and up to the...
42: ...spiration in animals. The word ''oxygen'' derives from two words in [[Greek language|Greek]], ''oxys''...
44: .... Liquid O<sub>2</sub> is usually obtained by the fractional distillation of liquid air. Both liquid a...
57: ...armacist [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]] sometime before 1773, but the discovery was not published until after ...
75: Oxygen derivatives are prone to form [[free radicals]], especially in metabolic processes. ... - Platinum (10600 bytes)
169: The name platinum mainly derives from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''platina'' me...
175: ... member of the [[Royal Society]] he was prevented from publishing a reference to the unknown metal unt...
182: ...rnational des Poids et Mesures]] in [[Sevres]], [[France]]. A platinum-iridium cylinder serves to this...
192: ...producer of platinum group metals from its South African mines. It mines, processes, refines and marke...
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