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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
100: *[[Abraham of Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...fled to a distant castle, and Catherine took the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely sup...
11: ...charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles from state s...
13: ...sant revolt in 1773 led by [[Yemelyan Pugachev]] threatened Eastern Russia. As a result, Catherine the...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
19: ...]]. Russia gained the largest part of [[Poland]] through repeated [[Partitions of Poland|partitions]] ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
4: ...n [[Vienna]] on [[2 November]] [[1755]]. She was christened Maria-Antonia-Josepha-Johanna. ''Maria'' w...
11: ...were soon married off to European royalty. Maria-Christina, the eldest, was married to the Regent of t...
39: ..."Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."'') However, this phrase was never uttered by Marie-Antoinette ? althou...
53: ...her twenty-first birthday, she participated in a three-day long gambling party, in which huge amounts ...
66: ...reds of courtiers. The queen actually passed out through a combination of embarrassment and pain. It w... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
33: ...ro, and he commanded the First Virginia Regiment throughout the rest of war. In [[1758]], he was a par...
45: ...ersey]], who did not anticipate an attack near [[Christmas]]. Washington followed up the assault with ...
51: ...t tremendous odds, Washington sustained his army throughout the Revolution, keeping British forces tie...
53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg...
75: ... a [[strep throat|streptococcal infection of the throat]] or, since he was bled as part of the treatme... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
52: * United States Library of Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://m... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
32: ...ce]] ([[1784]]-[[1789]]) he took extensive trips through [[France|French]] and other [[Europe]]an wine...
131: ...ellectual. He was singularly sweet-tempered, and shrank from the impassioned political bitterness that...
137: ...[[religion]], but to be understood, if possible, through [[reason]] and [[science]].
141: ...first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph. Virg...
143: ...rines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state... - United States (58223 bytes)
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
62: ... and U.S. settlers acquired those emptied lands. Through coercion, military prowess, and diplomatic le...
70: ...le of a [[representative democracy]]. There are three levels of government in the United States&mdash...
74: ...tes|Supreme Court]] (the judicial branch). These three branches are said to supply [[checks and balanc...
102: ...ble concern about the image of the United States throughout the world. Reactions towards the United St... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
11: * [[1765]]: While wandering through the [[Glasgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', co...
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
22: ...or to measure steam pressure in the [[cylinder]] throughout the working cycle of the engine, so showin...
24: ...-acting engine, a counter, an indicator, and a [[throttle]] valve) made the steam engine his life's wo... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
8: ...se asteroids are large enough to survive passage through [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth large...
30: ...rface material. Originally, they classified only three types of asteroids:
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
60: Three other asteroids ([[2 Pallas]], [[3 Juno]], [[4 ...
62: ...Tempel]], [[James Craig Watson|J. C. Watson]], [[Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters|C. H. F. Peters]]... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
51: ...ur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynchronous satellite]]
52: *[[Christopher Cockerell]], (1910-1999;) (1886-1972) &md...
112: *[[John Harrison]], (1693-1776) — marine chronometer
164: ...7) — reflecting telescope (which reduces [[chromatic aberration]])
192: *[[August Schrader]], [[Schrader valve]] for [[Pneumatic tire]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
19: ...colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the British colonies, from New England to...
23: ...l resentment of these new policies grew steadily throughout the decade, and had a significant impact o...
28: ...sion of these laws had long been tolerated. Now, through the use of open-ended search warrants ([[Writ...
80: ...ellion against tyranny); the delegation of power through written constitutions; and the notion that co... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
27: ...onderoga, New York]] and to transport [[cannon]] through the wilderness of western Massachusetts to th...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
56: ...e [[Federalists]], and quickly gained supporters throughout the nation. The most well-known Federalist... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
172: ...e]], as editor of the ''Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch'', opted for ''Uranus'', after the [[Greek my... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
7: ... ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the [[Jacobite]] dynasty.
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
14: ...waii)|Citizen's Committee of Public Safety]] overthrow the government of Queen [[Liliuokalani]] of the...
27: ...a [[KC-135]] jet tanker over [[Spain]], dropping three 70-kiloton [[hydrogen bomb]]s near the town of ...
37: ...curs in [[Northridge, California]] see [[1994_Northridge_Earthquake]] - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
49: * The legality of state separation through a [[declaration of independence]]. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...ocrats]] and [[republicanism | republican]]s overthrew the [[absolute monarchy]] and the [[Roman Catho...
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
63: ...and the spirit of [[popular sovereignty]] spread throughout France. In rural areas, many went beyond t...
73: ====Dechristianisation====
74: ''For a more detailed discussion, see [[Dechristianisation of France during the French Revoluti... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ... became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
20: ...lief in a comprehensible world, under an orderly Christian God, provided much of the impetus for philo...
43: ...s of the Enlightenment, credible reports, viewed through the lens of reason annealed knowledge, empiri...
47: ...al discipline began with the work of [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] and [[Johann Gottfried Herder]]. Bot...
57: ... end the [[Roman Catholic Church]], and indeed [[Christianity]] in France, in addition to changing the... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
39: [[Article Three of the United States Constitution|Article III]]...
45: There are three levels of federal courts with ''general jurisdi...
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