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- Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
3: ....I.M. Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess...
4: ...[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman E...
6: ...ial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[C...
12: ...hduchess of Austria]], [[King of Hungary|Queen of Hungary]], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]:...
14: ...hduchess of Austria]], [[King of Hungary|Queen of Hungary]], and [[King of Bohemia|Queen of Bohemia]]:... - Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
1: [[Image:0459.jpg|thumb|right|230px|H.I.M. Ekaterina I, Empress and Aut...
5: ...and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peasant. She was married at the age of 17...
10: ...abeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]] - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[November 6]], [[1796]]. A co...
5: ... coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to hav...
16: ...Buberel Coronation coach Catherine the Great.jpg|thumb|250px|Catherine the Great's coronation coach is...
25: ...the Russians, the Swedes were faced with mounting human and territory losses. After [[Denmark]] decla...
27: ...narchies. Catherine took advantage of [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] impotent government, before t... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: [[Image:elizabeth_empress.jpg|thumb|270px|H.I.M. Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and A...
3: ...stablishment of the [[University of Moscow]] and Shuvalov's foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Ar...
15: ...s good reason to believe, subsequently became her husband.
21: [[Image:elizabeth_venus.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The portrait of Elizabeth as [[Venus...
23: ...ander and [[Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov|Peter Shuvalov]], two of the gentlemen of her household, sh... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarieAntoinette1769-70.jpg|thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon sho...
7: [[Image:MariaTheresa.JPG|thumb|right|Marie-Antoinette's mother, the Empress Ma...
13: ...er sister Johanna-Gabriella died of smallpox in [[1762]], Maria-Antonia became the next child to be invo...
21: ...ouis_xvi.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Marie-Antoinette's husband, Louis-Auguste (the future [[Louis XVI]]). A...
22: ...the other members of the royal family. Her future husband, the Dauphin [[Louis XVI|Louis-Auguste]] was... - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
66: ...[Spain]] by the [[Treaty of Fountainebleau]] of [[1762]].
93: [[Image:National-atlas-louisiana.PNG|right|thumb|360px|Map of Louisiana]]
302: **[[Hammond, Louisiana|Hammond]] Headhunters - SAFL - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
27: * [[Wine]] in [[Jiahu|Jiahu,China]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
10: ... formidable land force on continental Europe and thus allowed Britannia to rule the seas, as well as e...
36: ...qu鼆ouque]] was defeated in the [[Battle of Landshut]]. The French captured [[Marburg]], the Swedes p...
40: ...f fortune was already at hand. On [[5 January]] [[1762]] the [[Elizabeth of Russia|Tsarina]] died, and h...
42: ...[Battle of Freiberg]], fought on [[29 October]] [[1762]].
52: ...urned to their pre-war states, by the [[Treaty of Hubertusburg]] (February [[1763]]). This meant that ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
84: *[[Ludolf Bakhuysen]] ([[1631]]-[[1708]])
89: *[[Balthus]] ([[1908]]-[[2001]])
187: *[[Arthur Boyd]] ([[1920]]-[[1999]])
264: *[[Frederick Edwin Church]] ([[1826]]-[[1900]])
535: *[[Hugo Heyrman]] ([[1942]]-) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
35: *[[Hugo Borchardt]] (1844-1924) German–American i...
51: *[[Arthur C. Clarke]], (born 1917),[[England]], [[geosynch...
132: ...Kotelnikov]] - [[Russia]]n inventor of the [[parachute]].
157: *[[Samuel Morey]], (1762-1843) — internal combustion engine
178: ..., invented the Jolly Jumper baby harness with her husband, circa. [[1959]] - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: [[Image:Wave.jpg|thumb|250px|The tsunami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [...
4: ...ly pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean.
9: [[Image:Tsunami_comic_book_style.png|thumb|200px|Schema of a tsunami]]
21: [[Image:Hokusai-fujibig.png|thumb|right|300px|There is a common misconception tha...
22: ...any obstacle. Most of the damage is caused by the huge mass of water behind the initial wave front, as... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: [[Image:B_arnold.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by ...
3: ...ich would have given the British control of the [[Hudson River]] and split the [[Thirteen Colonies|col...
6: ...t hard times by the time he became an adult. In [[1762]] he moved to [[New Haven]], Connecticut and esta...
9: ...]]. They appointed him a [[colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirel...
10: ...ho did not care that Arnold had orders from Massachusetts. Arnold could not talk Allen out of relinqui... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
1: [[Image:B franklin.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Benjamin Franklin Image provided by...
9: ... Abiah Folger, was born in [[Nantucket]], [[Massachusetts]] on [[August 15]], [[1667]], to Peter Folge...
13: ...d]] for [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]; and while in Boston, they had several mor...
15: ..., on [[November 25]] [[1689]] in the [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Rev. Samuel Willard.
20: [[Image:B_franklin_6.jpg|thumb|300px|]] - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
32: *[[Andronicus of Cyrrhus]]
39: *[[Aristarchus]] ([[Samos]], circa [[310 BC]] – circa [[2...
46: *[[Arthur Auwers]] ([[Germany]], [[1838]] – [[1915]]...
92: ...[James Bradley]] ([[England]], [[1693]] – [[1762]])
115: *[[C鳡r-Fran篩s Cassini de Thury]] ([[France]], [[1714]] – [[1784]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
31: *[[Rodolphus Agricola]], (1443-1485){{fn|R}}
59: *[[Louis Althusser]], (1918-1990){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
70: *[[Anaxarchus]], (fl. 340 BC){{fn|R}}
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
18: ...ttish]] and the [[England|English]] Parliaments, thus establishing The [[Kingdom of Great Britain]].
28: ...9]]: The [[Qianlong Emperor]] of China oversees a huge expansion in territory.
40: * [[1762]]-[[1796|96]]: Reign of [[Catherine II of Russia|...
47: ... The [[Partitions of Poland]] end the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and erase Poland from the map...
80: * [[David Hume]] (philosopher) - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...n]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250px|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[Decem...
8: ...gs in the 18th century, it would radically change human society and the geology of the surface of the ...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the eve of the [[War of the Spa...
14: ...:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general... - 18th century inventions (2219 bytes)
12: ...[[1733]]: [[Flying shuttle]]: [[John Kay (Flying Shuttle)]]
16: * [[1762]]: [[Iron smelting process]]: [[Jared Eliot]]
31: * [[1785]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Jean Pierre Blanchard]] - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12500 bytes)
11: ...al textbook ''Versuch einer gr�ndlichen Violinschule'' ("Essay on the fundamentals of violin playing...
15: ...ghout [[Europe]], beginning with an exhibition in 1762 at the Court of the Elector of [[Bavaria]] in [[M...
17: [[image:mozart.birth.500pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mozart's birthplace at 9 Getreidegas... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
33: ...lign="center" colspan="2" |[[Image:neva_spit.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Neva]] river has been called the ma...
46: [[image:winter_canal.jpg|thumb|left|St Petersburg is known as the city of 300 ...
58: ...he baroque [[Winter Palace]] (1754–1762), a huge building with dazzlingly luxurious interiors, n...
60: [[Image:HermitageAcrossNeva.jpg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the...
62: ...1762–1766); the [[Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov|Shuvalov]] palace (1830–1838), where [[Rasputin...
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