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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", discoverer of...
140: ...p it to [[Albany, New York|Albany]], discovered [[Hudson Bay]]
141: *[[Alexander von Humboldt]], (1769-1859), German naturalist, explored [[Central Amer...
142: *[[Hamilton Hume]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
192: *[[Hugh McNeil]], Lewis and Clark Party member - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...s the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the ...
29: [[Image:Jefferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning...
32: ...e the many vine diseases native to the Americas. Thus, Jefferson himself was never able to produce win...
34: [[Image:TJeff.jpe|thumb|190px|left|Thomas Jefferson]]
56: [[Image:Jefferson memorial 1.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Jefferson Memorial]] in [[Washington, DC]... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
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21: ...e Madison spent most of his childhood years. In [[1769]], he left the plantation to attend [[Princeton U...
40: ...ers of [[Tecumseh]]. Neither side was terribly enthusiastic about the war, however: the British had li... - Geology (12007 bytes)
10: ...hell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that t...
16: ...olcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the...
18: [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]] (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and ...
20: [[James Hutton]] is often viewed as the first modern geologi...
22: Followers of Hutton were known as ''[[Plutonism |Plutonists]]'' b... - Canada (35540 bytes)
75: ...eaning "village", "settlement", or "collection of huts" [http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-...
82: [[Image:Parliament3.jpg|240px|thumb|left|The [[Parliament of Canada]] above the [[O...
90: ...he United States|Atlantic seaboard]] and around [[Hudson Bay]]. As these colonies expanded, a struggle...
92: ...f Quebec]], and [[Prince Edward Island]] (created 1769). To accommodate the Loyalists, Britain created t...
96: ...ntrol of [[Rupert's Land]] (administered by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]) and the [[Arctic]]. - James Watt (5070 bytes)
13: * [[1769]]: [[Patent]]ed separate condensing chamber for s...
33: ... multiplied its productive capacity. (Without it, humans might have continued to provide power.) It wa... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
3: [[Image:Cotton-plants-growing-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
7: [[Image:Alabama-cotton-farm.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Cotton Farm in Alabama.]]
13: ...ent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry.". This aspect is retained in the name for co...
17: ... ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) enabled cheap mass-production of cotton cloth ...
21: [[Image:Cotton-branch-photo.jpg|500px|thumb|right]] - 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]] - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: [[Image:AlexanderTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[Britis...
9: ...uture birth. Olympias dreamed of a loud burst of thunder and of lightning striking her womb. In Philip...
19: [[Image:Map-alexander-empire.png|thumb|440px|Map of Alexander's empire]]
23: ...moved inland. At Pisidian [[Termessus]] Alexander humbled but did not storm the city. At the ancient P...
33: ... his official historian, [[Callisthenes]] of Olynthus (who had fallen out of favor with the king by le... - 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]]-) - Uranus (15207 bytes)
160: ...patterns were extremely bland and faint. Recent [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observations, however, show...
168: ...es in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[1771]]. He was a victim... - History of California (38344 bytes)
7: [[Image:california_poppies.jpg|thumb|325px|A field of [[California Poppy|California ...
10: [[Image:Tunnel view.jpg|thumb|300px|California's [[Yosemite Valley]].]]
13: ...s now California. Among the tribes were the ''[[Chumash]]'', ''[[Maidu]]'', ''[[Miwok]]'', ''[[Modoc]...
19: ..., Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a wonderful country far to the...
47: [[Image:Island of California.jpg|thumb|300px|left|"California" shown as an island on t... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1: ...ann.summi_pontifices_in_hac_basilica_sepulti.jpg|thumb|Popes buried in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Pete...
2: This is a '''list of Popes of the Roman Catholic Church'''.
4: ...sed officially by the head of the Roman Catholic Church since the tenure of [[Pope Siricius]], and the...
6: ...One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of the West, [[primate (reli...
22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small> - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by ...
10: [[Image:Nfld chartofcook.jpg|thumb|200px|James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland]]
14: Cook's huge achievements can be attributed to a combination...
18: ...eaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahiti]], where he built a small [[Fortifi...
22: ...olony]] in Australia. However, when Captain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Fleet in [[1788... - Lewis and Clark Expedition (11755 bytes)
3: ...ntial interference of British and French-Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well establish...
7: ...ive American|native]] woman [[Sacagawea]] and her husband, French Canadian [[Toussaint Charbonneau]], ...
10: ...for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife. Mostly they just end...
12: [[image:lewisclarkrussell.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''Lewis and Clark on the Lower Colu...
53: *Private [[Hugh Hall]] (ca. 1772 – ?) - March 18 (10594 bytes)
22: ...- The [[New London School explosion]] kills three hundred, mostly children.
35: ... at [[Chungar]], [[Peru]] crashes into [[Lake Yanahuani]] killing 200.
40: ...bella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. This is the largest [[art theft]] in US h...
43: ...0|2000 Taiwanese presidential election]]: [[Chen Shui-bian]] is elected [[President of the Republic of...
46: ...]'s feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a nationwide debate about her. - March 23 (10340 bytes)
7: ...of France]] make substantial concessions to the [[Huguenots]].
9: ...ive me liberty or give me death]]" at St. John's Church in [[Richmond, Virginia]].
34: ...6|first direct elections]] and chooses [[Lee Teng-hui]] as [[President of the Republic of China|Presid...
46: *[[1769]] - [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]], ...
47: *[[1823]] - [[Schuyler Colfax]], [[Vice President of the United Stat... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...ith a view to improving the cod fishery, and in [[1769]]-[[1772]] he was employed in north-western disco...
5: His first attempt (from 6 November 1769) failed through the desertion of his Indians; his... - List of U.S. military history events (12126 bytes)
32: ...950–1953)[[Image:Stamp-ctc-vietnam-war.jpg|thumb|The Vietnam War was one of the longest military...
50: *[[Battle of Mogadishu]] (1993)
229: *[[Yankee-Pennamite Wars]] (1769–1784) - 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.
46: * [[1769]]: [[Spain|Spanish]] [[missionary|missionaries]] ...
47: ... The [[Partitions of Poland]] end the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and erase Poland from the map...
80: * [[David Hume]] (philosopher)
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