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- Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ...e growing [[Separatism|separatist]] movement that later resulted in the [[American Revolution]].
11: ...o be admitted to the bar or enrolled as a [[Civil law notary|notary]] one would pay a tax of �10 in ...
13: ...en protected by colonial [[militia]], not the regular army. The militia had even been assigned to supp...
15: ...ons of protest sprang up throughout the colonies, later becoming known as the [[Sons of Liberty]]. Ol...
17: ...eld at [[Federal Hall]] in New York in October of 1765.
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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
36: ...cob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...so see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Louis...
3: ...f Austria, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]]
6: ...eed to the Austrian throne and inherit his united lands on his death. While many European monarchs ag...
8: ...uis, heir apparent to the king of France, who was later crowned [[Louis XVI of France|King Louis XVI]]...
15: ...767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1765; [[List of rulers of Austria|Archduke of Austria]... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...less and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from ill...
9: ...e [[serf]]s was created to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took...
11: ...s. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...d encouraged education for the nobles and middle class.
17: ...sburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and i... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...rench]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a p...
5: ...so examining [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the aut...
7: ...with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the rest of her li...
10: ...wdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this work. In 1746 he wro...
14: ...was an episodic application of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the '... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: ... of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland]], [[Virginia]]
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
19: ...Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United States]] u...
21: For the role he played in winning and securing American independence,...
24: ...ial Beach, Virginia|Colonial Beach]] in [[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]. - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
2: ...ght|frame|Portrait of Hancock [[:Image:JohnHancockLarge.jpeg|(full portrait)]]]]
3: ...ates Declaration of Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ...ndence]]. According to legend, he signed his name largely and clearly to be sure King [[George III of ...
8: ...ncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he inherited the fortune an...
13: ... naturally disposed him to resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...f Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his ...
24: ...eal for the cause of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to wr...
28: ...These qualities were particularly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term ... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
1: ... Image courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: '''Eli Whitney''' ([[December 8]], [[1765]] - [[January 8]], [[1825]]) was an [[United Stat...
14: ...ve that this invention allowed for the African [[slavery]] system in the Southern United States to bec...
24: ...parts on an assembly line by [[unskilled labor]]. Large volumes of goods could therefore be manufactur...
26: ...thers in [[manufacturing]]. He never patented his later inventions, one of which was a [[milling machi... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
3: ...1736]]–[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] w...
5: ...d]], and lived and worked in [[Birmingham]], [[England]]. He was a key member of the [[Lunar Society]]...
8: * [[1736]]: Born in Greenock, Scotland
9: ...ument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasgow]]
11: * [[1765]]: While wandering through the [[Glasgow Green]]'s ''"Golf Course"'', comes upon the i... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
4: Flag = Connecticut state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Connecticut]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgepo...
12: PostalAbbreviation = CT |
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' | - Oregon (26551 bytes)
4: Flag = Oregon state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Oregon]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = OR |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' | - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: *[[Laloo Prasad Yadav|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
7: ...nder Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
12: ...ander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
21: ...i]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
31: ...onal Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
5: Shortcuts to highly popular [[painter]]s:
8: *[[Salvador Dali]], ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [...
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impress...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]] - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
14: ...nt of Agriculture — instant mashed potato flakes
18: *[[Charles Babbage]], (1791-1871), [[England]] — [[Analytical engine]]
20: ...) - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
22: *[[Steve Baer]] - (1938-) U.S. solar inventor and developer; architectural designer.
23: *[[John Logie Baird]], (1888-1946), [[Scotland]] — [[television]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ...ench and Indian War]], and the orange region was claimed by [[Spain]]. Note that this map does not sho...
4: ...dically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The opp...
10: ...panish]] [[Florida]], and the [[Native American]] lands east of the [[Mississippi River]]. A war again...
16: ...] elevated [[natural philosophy]] and began to replace arguments born of tradition and authority with ...
19: ...ept through all the British colonies, from New England to the Carolinas, as a common experience. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
9: *[[1763]] - [[British Royal Proclamation of 1763]]
12: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]] passed
13: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act Congress]] convenes
14: *[[1765]] - [[First Quartering Act]]
19: *[[1771]] - [[Battle of Alamance]] in [[North Carolina]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...ania|Pennsylvania]], the [[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Vir...
4: ...atter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different colonies foun...
9: ...ion and colonization in many ways. A revival in classical learning sparked an interest in [[geography...
11: ...pon were found to belong to an entirely different landmass. [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] quickly mounte...
13: ...sh colonies. Though these northerly lands were relatively close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had tak... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...rd and the significant marginalization in the population of native inhabitants after European coloniza...
5: ... Rush of 1849, then with its fertile agricultural lands and prodigious oil fields, and finally with it...
11: ...tion, dated to the last [[ice age]] ([[Wisconsin glaciation]]) about 13,000 years ago.
13: ...nd each tribe specialized according to the particular environment. Coastal tribes were a major source...
19: ..., and gems. The Spaniards conjectured that these places may be one and the same.
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