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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
85: | [[1772]] — [[1779]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
67: *[[James Cook]], (1728-1779), explored the [[Pacific]], discovering or mappin...
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
105: *[[Louis de Freycinet]], (1779-1842), explored coastal regions of [[Western Aust...
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
23: ...he [[War of the Bavarian Succession]] ([[1778]]-[[1779]]) between Prussia and Austria. In [[1780]] she s...
25: ...e of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. The Russian navy, command...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Lo...
3: ...t became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and was the editor-in-chief of the f...
40: ... of Europe. Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing for him an account of the annual exhi... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
51: ...ckname "American [[Fabius Maximus|Fabius]]". In [[1779]], he ordered twenty percent of the army to carry...
79: ...the Army]] (five star), George Washington is the only President with military service to reenter the m...
95: ...ng the principle that even a former president is only, after all, a private citizen.
104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
46: ...t Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] government, however, did...
52: Partly for this reason, Adams received only thirty-four out of sixty-nine votes in the [[U.S...
57: ...ers of opposing [[political party|parties]]. The only other time this would happen would be when [[Abr... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
39: ...es House of Representatives]]. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency to serv...
41: ... epitaph, written by him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, re...
141: ... had first submitted in [[1779]], and was one of only three accomplishments he put in his own epitaph....
143: ...nd material he considered preternatural, leaving only Jesus' moral philosophy, of which he approved. T...
149: ...s from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the induc... - Geology (12007 bytes)
7: ...d term by Horace-Bedict de Saussure in the year [[1779]]. An older meaning of the word was first used by... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
11: ...monosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-...
29: ...ulations. However, they assumed that the Sun was only glowing from the heat of its [[gravitational con...
37: ...his estimates were correct. The geologists could only suggest (correctly) that Kelvin didn't have all ...
59: ...as [[helium]] atoms. At the time, Rutherford was only guessing at the relationship between alpha parti...
77: ...ample, he assumed that the samples had contained only uranium and no lead when they were formed. - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...as ceded to Britain. Restored to French rule in [[1779]], St. Vincent was regained by the British under ... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...Buff-colored facings had till then been reserved only for his own uniform and those of other Continent... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...d as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. On [[June 12]], [[1... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
148: * [[1779]]: [[Spinning mule]]: [[Samuel Crompton]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]])
1151: *[[Eduard von Steinle]] ([[1810]]-[[1886]])
1152: *[[Théophile Steinlen]] ([[1859]]-[[1923]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
17: It is commonly associated with [[parade]]s, [[barbecue]]s, [[pi...
29: Adams was off by two days, however. Certainly, the vote on [[July 2]] was the decisive act. Bu...
35: * In [[1779]], the Fourth falls on a Sunday. Starting a long ...
41: Independence Day, as the only holiday celebrating the [[country]] as a whole, ... - African Buffalo (2744 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Anders Sparrman|Sparrman]] | date = [[1779]]}}
21: ... Crossbreeding with domestic [[cattle]] has had only limited success, and the African Buffalo remains... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
17: *[[J?Jakob Berzelius]], (1779-1848), Swedish ''chemist''
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
14: ...estored order. He resigned from the army in March 1779 on account of ill health, renewing his study of l...
20: ...husband's land speculation, they separated after only four months. During the month of their first ann...
53: ...attempted in earlier plots in [[Kentucky]]. Burr enlisted Wilkinson and others to his plan in a reconn... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
15: ...ion|expeditionary force]] from Boston on an easternly route to [[Quebec City, Quebec|Quebec City]], an...
21: ...olution)|Loyalist]] sympathies. On [[April 9]], [[1779]] he married 18 year-old Peggy, by whom he would ...
25: ...martialed several times, notably on [[June 1]], [[1779]], because of disputes with civil authorities. He...
35: ...re and, with West Point never captured, received only £6,000. Arnold died in 1801 and is buried...
43: ...graphy at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] - Shays' Rebellion (6569 bytes)
5: ...n [[Massachusetts]] rewrote its constitution in [[1779]], the towns of Western Massachusetts and modern-...
13: ...pringfield" resulted in a rebel defeat, although only four rebels were actually killed.
15: ...nt, Massachusetts|South Egremont]]. In the end, only two men, John Bly and Charles Rose were hanged f...
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