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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...which opposed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the re...
9: ...gislative commission representing all classes except the [[serf]]s was created to make this document t...
21: ... [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire's European hold... - Banksia (1867 bytes)
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15: ...nks]], of the [[James Cook|Cook]] expedition in [[1768]]. They are native to [[Australia]], growing in ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ... His father died when he was young, and he was adopted by his paternal uncle—Thomas Hancock, a h...
13: ...sist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial trading.
15: ...ggling|smuggle]] glass, lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Li...
33: ...monstrate loyalty to the crown—with the exceptions of Hancock and Adams. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events and impressions of men. The earlies...
31: ... Gazette]] (republished separately in London in [[1768]] as ''A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law...
33: In [[1768]] Adams moved to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]...
37: ...se resolutions before the Congress until their adoption on [[July 2]], [[1776]].
39: ...cupied the foremost place in the debate on its adoption. Before this question had been disposed of, Ad... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
37: | [[1768]]
60: ...8]], the Gorkha king, [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], captured Kathmandu. In [[1814]], Nepal fought the [[An...
62: ...acterised by extreme corruption bordering on [[kleptocracy]].
66: ... turning the gun on himself. His [[suicide]] attempt was not immediately successful, however, and alth...
76: ...ini]], [[Mahakali]], [[Mechi]], [[Narayani]], [[Rapti]], [[Sagarmatha]], [[Seti]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
10: *[[Yakub of Alexandria]] (819-830), Coptic Pope
47: *[[Joseph C. Yates|Yates, Joseph C.]], (1768-1837), U.S. lawyer, Governor of New York (1823-18...
99: ...[[Yoannis I of Alexandria]], ([[496]]-[[505]]), Coptic Pope
100: ...[Yoannis II of Alexandria]], ([[505]]-[[516]]), Coptic Pope
101: ...Yoannis III of Alexandria]], ([[681]]-[[689]]), Coptic Pope - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
230: *[[Canaletto]] ([[1697]]-[[1768]])
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
19: ...the colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the British colonies, from New Englan...
38: ...[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] on [[June 10]], [[1768]]. Angry protests on the street led customs offic...
40: ...sh troops began to arrive in Boston in October of 1768. Tensions continued to mount, culminating in the ...
54: ...he First [[Continental Congress]] convened on [[September 5]], [[1774]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvani...
58: ...etition]] -- [[July 5]], [[1775]], one final attempt by the Continental Congress to appeal to King Geo... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
5: <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
149: ...ibuted. Uranus' [[cyan]] color is due to the absorption of [[red]] light by atmospheric [[methane]].
155: ...riptions are exactly equivalent as physical descriptions of the planet but result in different definit...
164: ...ion at relatively shallow depths within Uranus. Neptune has a similarly displaced magnetic field, sugg...
168: ...]] observed it four times in [[1750]], twice in [[1768]], six times in [[1769]], and one last time in [[... - History of California (38344 bytes)
36: ...ew Spain]]. He sailed northward and landed on [[September 28]] at [[San Diego|San Diego Bay]], claimin...
38: After Cabrillo's voyage in [[1542]] the concept of [[Alta California|Alta (upper) California]] an...
48: ...stocked his vessels, then stayed for a time and kept friendly relations with the aboriginal natives. ...
50: ...h Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was discovered in [[Ma...
76: Dispatches of [[January 23]], [[1768]] exchanged between King Carlos and the viceroy s... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
5: ... One of the protesters was [[John Hancock]]. In [[1768]], his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was seized by custom...
7: ...as one of the first times women collectively attempted to influence public policy in the Colonies. By ...
11: ...into Boston Harbor. They took off their shoes, swept the decks, and made each ship's first mate attest... - Venice (22017 bytes)
14: ...ndent period and politics and the military were kept completely separate. War was regarded as a contin...
31: ... merchantmen, with the privilege of sharing the captain's cabin.
33: ...re [[cavalry|cavalrymen]] while the city's conscripts fought as [[infantry]].
35: ...eacetime. Later in that century, uniforms were adopted that featured red-and-white stripes, and a syst...
37: ...] by private armies), and while the position of Captain General was introduced in the mid-14th century... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: [[Image:captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explo...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])==
18: ...nsit of Venus]] across the [[Sun]]. Leaving in [[1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahi...
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... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
8: ...]] forces near the ruins of [[Nicopolis]] in [[Egypt]].
9: ...1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civil law]].
40: *[[1768]] - [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier]], [[France|French]] [[mathema... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
18: *[[Ahmes]] (Egypt, roughly around [[17th century BC]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
114: *[[Brahmagupta]] (India, [[598]]-[[668]])
141: ...àro]] (Italy, [[March 12]], [[1859]] - [[September 12]], [[1906]])
211: *[[Diophantus]] of Alexandria (Ptolemaic Egypt, circa [[298 BC|298 B.C.]] - [[214 BC|214 B.C.]]) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
48: ...ohn Quincy Adams]] (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]])
690: *[[James Short]] ([[1710]] ? [[1768]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
12: *[[Abhinavagupta]] (fl. c. 975 - 1025){{fn|R}}
32: *[[Agrippa the Sceptic]], (1st/2nd century){{fn|R}}
967: *[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], (1744-1829){{fn|O}}
1304: *[[Ptolemy]], (c. 85-c. 165){{fn|R}}
1339: *[[Hermann Samuel Reimarus]], (1694-1768){{fn|C}} - Great Barrier Reef (3888 bytes)
5: ...rier Reef was [[Captain James Cook]] during his [[1768]] voyage. Cook discovered the reef by running agr...
14: ... north eastern Australia has no major rivers, except during tropical flood events caused by cyclones (... - Samuel Hearne (1401 bytes)
3: ...k service with the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]. In [[1768]] he examined portions of the [[Hudson Bay]] coas...
5: His first attempt (from 6 November 1769) failed through the deserti...
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