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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...rst to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
47: ...1499), [[Italy|Italian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [...
57: *[[Thomas Cavendish]], (died 1592), English sailor and explorer.
83: *[[David Douglas]], Scottish explorer, botanist
179: *[[Douglas Mawson]] - [[Australia]]n explorer of [[Antarct... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
14: ...t of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting is its presentation, in a distinc...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the authorities, and he was...
23: ...es]]'', undertaken in the first instance by the Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried...
34: ...thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 1766]]
44: ...r in whom all the contradictions of the time struggle with one another" (Rosenkranz). He did not devel... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
3: ...ologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
98: *[[Barr Glenn]] ([[1968]]-)
113: *[[James Baynes]] ([[1766]]-[[1837]])
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
361: *[[Aaron Douglas]] ([[1898]]-[[1979]])
385: *[[Ron English]] ([[1948]]-) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...or the first day of its numbered year. Although England began its numbered year on [[March 25]] ([[Lad...
7: *[[404]] - Last known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
11: *[[1651]] - [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] crowned King of [[Scotland]]
80: **A single market within the [[European Community]] is intr...
103: *[[1484]] - [[Huldrych Zwingli]], Swiss Protestant leader (d. [[1531]]) - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...[[Peace of Westphalia]] and at the end of the [[English Civil War]], there was an upheaval which overt...
20: ...cated machines as a powerful metaphor for a seemingly orderly universe.
24: ... would be honoured, at times, in the breach, as England's own "[[Star Chamber]]" court would attest to...
33: ...and the [[telescope]]. There was also an increasingly complex philosophy of the role of the [[nation-s...
41: ...29, and there he studied Locke, Newton, and the English Monarchy. Voltaire's ethos was that "Those who... - Aardvark (6420 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = [[1766]]}}
16: ... the same reason, Aardvarks bear a striking first-glance resemblance to the [[marsupial]] [[Bilby|bilb...
32: After a gestation period of 7 months, a single young weighing around 2kg is born, and is able t... - Dik-dik (3106 bytes)
13: ...author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = [[1766]]}}
34: ... are hunted primarily by [[monitor lizard]]s, [[eagle]]s, [[python (snake)|python]]s, smaller cats suc... - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
12: ...| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
19: ...ke fish. Groups of these birds often travel in single file, flying low over the water's surface.
28: ...''Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis'' Linnaeus, 1766 - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[niobium]]
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemist - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
22: ...by further flights, including a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Bla... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
8: ...n a [[collier]] that distributed coal along the English coast. While working for Walker, Cook began to...
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [...
26: ... name "kangaroo" was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name f...
39: ...''. Cook [[circumnavigation|circumnavigated]] the globe at a very high southern [[latitude]], becoming...
49: ...nd]] on [[Vancouver Island]], although he unknowingly sailed past the [[Strait of Juan de Fuca]]. He e... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: *[[1766]] - [[American Revolution]]: The [[British Parlia...
103: *[[978]] - King [[Edward the Martyr]] of England - March 19 (9902 bytes)
27: *[[1972]] - [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]].
36: *2004 - A Swedish [[Douglas DC-3|DC-3]] shot down by a Russian [[Mikoyan-Gu...
41: ...Jean Astruc]], French physician and scholar (d. [[1766]])
48: *[[1871]] - [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (d. [[1921]])
81: *[[1947]] - [[Glenn Close]], actress - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
123: *[[Pierre Hyacinthe Azais]], (1766-1845)
462: *[[Hugo Dingler]], (1881-1954)
536: *[[Herbert Feigl]], (1902-1988)
638: *[[Joseph Glanvill]], (1636-1680){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
639: *[[Ernst von Glasersfeld]] - Warthog (4196 bytes)
11: ...| author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = 1766}}
32: ... to 8 piglets, although 2 to 4 is more typical. Piglets are weaned at 3 or 4 months of age, reaching s... - Biology (23579 bytes)
83: ...terprise that it is not generally studied as a single discipline, but as a number of clustered sub-dis...
92: ...olecular]] level. Cell biology researches both single-celled organisms like [[bacterium|bacteria]] and...
139: ...ologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]]. - Hydrogen (20221 bytes)
108: ...Stars]] in their [[main sequence]] are overwhelmingly composed of hydrogen in its [[plasma_physics|pla...
110: ...s the conversion of biomass derivatives such as [[glucose]] or [[sorbitol]], which can be done at low ...
113: ...] (see [[metallic hydrogen]]). Under the exceedingly low pressure conditions found in space, hydrogen...
120: ... the element [[hydrogen]]. It is composed of a single negatively charged [[electron]], distributed aro...
138: ...nd [[mercury (element)|mercury]]. Although he wrongly assumed that hydrogen was a compound of mercury ... - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
36: *[[1766]] - [[Hydrogen]] discovered by [[Henry Cavendish]...
134: *[[1941]] - [[Plutonium]] discovered by [[Glenn T. Seaborg]], [[Arthur C. Wahl]], [[Joseph W. ...
135: *[[1944]] - [[Curium]] discovered by [[Glenn T. Seaborg]]
137: **[[Americium]] discovered by [[Glenn T. Seaborg]]
139: ...[[Berkelium]] discovered by [[Albert Ghiorso]], [[Glenn T. Seaborg]], [[Stanley G. Thompson]], [[Kenne... - Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ...ax. The Act was finally repealed on [[March 18]], 1766. This incident increased the colonists' concerns ...
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