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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
187: ...gypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer in service of Egyptian queen [[Hatshepsut]] - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
12: In 1747 he wrote the ''Promenade du sceptique'', an [[allegory]] pointing first to the extr...
14: ...cation of the principle of relativism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveug...
23: ...at were then moving the cultivated class to its depths, but still were comparatively ineffectual by re...
31: ...in correcting proofs, and in bringing the manuscript of less competent contributors into decent shape....
34: ...thumb|200px|Portrait by [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], 1766]] - History of biology (3053 bytes)
2: ...Image:Aristotle.jpg|thumb|left|[[Aristotle]] (sculpture)]]{{histOfScience}}
3: ...ologia generalis et dendrologia'', published in [[1766]].
13: ...e]]s of both [[plant]]s and [[animal]]s were attempted, with some success, but with attendant [[ethics... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
113: *[[James Baynes]] ([[1766]]-[[1837]])
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. The Gregoria...
8: *[[990]] - Russia adopts the Julian calendar.
15: ...discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
28: *[[1892]] - [[Ellis Island]] opens to begin accepting immigrants to the [[United States]].
50: ...Sudan]] achieves independence from the [[Egypt|Egyptian Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom|United Kin... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ... on belief and piety. Some of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence...
12: ...ers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think of them conjoined as one long period...
14: ... and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry into the nature of "knowledge."...
16: ...tise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical...
20: ...cts, such as Kepler's planetary motion, and the "opticks" which had explained lenses, and began to cre... - Aardvark (6420 bytes)
2: ...ferkel-drawing.jpg|none|200px|Cape Aardvark]] | caption=}}
12: ...author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = [[1766]]}}
18: ...nera of the family Orycteropodidae are known: ''Leptorycteropus'', ''Myorycteropus'', and ''Orycteropu...
28: ...,000 in one night has been recorded. They are exceptionally fast diggers, but otherwise move rather sl...
32: ... season]]. Aardvarks live for up to 10 years in captivity. - Dik-dik (3106 bytes)
2: ...image | image = [[Image:6_dik_dik.jpg|250px]] | caption = Dik Dik, Kenya Africa. <br> Image provded by...
13: ...author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = [[1766]]}} - Brown Pelican (2615 bytes)
2: ...= [[image: Brownpelican77.jpg|Brown Pelican]] | caption = }}
12: ...| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1766}}
28: ...''Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis'' Linnaeus, 1766 - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
36: *[[John Dalton]], (1766-1844), physicist
44: *[[Jean Baptiste Dumas]], (1800-1884), French chemist
198: *[[William Hyde Wollaston]], (1766-1828), [[England|English]] [[chemist]]
209: *[[Ahmed H. Zewail]] (born 1946), [[Egyptian]], [[1999]] Nobel Prize Winner for his work on... - Montgolfier brothers (3356 bytes)
11: The subsequent test on September 19 sent up the fourth living beings in a bas...
16: ... Karl Friedrich Meerwein in 1781 with his "ornithopter", a flapping device, probably preceded this eve...
22: In 1766, the British scientist [[Henry Cavendish]] had di... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explo...
18: In [[1766]], the Royal Society hired him to travel to the [...
22: ...[[British colony]] in Australia. However, when Captain [[Arthur Phillip]] arrived with the First Flee...
32: ...oseph Banks]] was a bigger hero. Banks even attempted to take command of Cook's second voyage, but re...
34: ...Image:Cookroutes.PNG|frame|center|The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is show... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
11: *[[1766]] - [[American Revolution]]: The [[British Parlia...
39: *[[1989]] - In [[Egypt]], a 4,400-year-old [[mummy]] is found in the [[G...
75: *[[1927]] - [[George Plimpton]], writer (d. [[2003]])
112: *[[1965]] - King [[Farouk I of Egypt]] (b. [[1920]]) - March 19 (9902 bytes)
32: ...televangelist]] [[Jim Bakker]] resigns from the [[PTL]].
41: ...Jean Astruc]], French physician and scholar (d. [[1766]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
123: *[[Pierre Hyacinthe Azais]], (1766-1845)
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1060: *[[Maine de Biran]], (1766-1824){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - Warthog (4196 bytes)
11: ...| author = [[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]] | date = 1766}}
25: ...gi, eggs, dead animals, and even small mammals, reptiles and birds. The diet is seasonably variable, d...
32: Wild warthogs can live up to 15 years. Captive warthogs may live as long as 18 years. The typ... - Biology (23579 bytes)
19: <div class="thumbcaption" style="width:200px;">Biology studies the vari...
25: ...haracterized by several major principles and concepts which include: universality, evolution, diversit...
38: ...only recognized as the co-discoverer of this concept). [[Genetic drift]] was embraced as an additiona...
44: ...r to grapple with this diversity, biologists attempt to classify all living things. This scientific ...
64: ...] "[[Omne vivum ex ovo]]") is a foundational concept of modern biology, it means that there has been a... - Hydrogen (20221 bytes)
104: ...ndard temperature and pressure|STP]] are used except where noted.</font></th>
138: ...was first recognized as a distinct substance in [[1766]] by [[Henry Cavendish]]. Cavendish stumbled upon...
144: ...uch like the earth revolving around the sun. Except the sun holds earth in orbit with the force of [[...
188: ...onsisting of a single [[proton]]; hence the descriptive, although rarely used, name '''[[protium]]'''. - Timeline of chemical element discovery (10490 bytes)
36: *[[1766]] - [[Hydrogen]] discovered by [[Henry Cavendish]...
115: ... κρυπτός ''kryptos'' (hidden).
133: **[[Neptunium]] discovered by [[E.M. McMillan]] & [[Philip... - Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ...ax. The Act was finally repealed on [[March 18]], 1766. This incident increased the colonists' concerns ...
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