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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
19: ... I of Egypt|Abbas I]], (1813-1854), pasha of [[Egypt]]
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
100: ...Alexandria]], (died 978), [[Coptic Christianity|Coptic]] Pope - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - 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...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
21: ... [[Ottoman Empire]] ([[1768]]-[[1774]]). She attempted to partition the Ottoman Empire's European hold... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
43: ...ortly after the coronation, Marie-Antoinette attempted to bring the [[duc de Choiseul]] back to court....
61: ... entire country was standing on the edge of bankruptcy. [[Louis XIV]]'s wars with [[William III of Eng...
71: ...[Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran篩s|Louis-Jos鰨]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and S...
95: ...鰨, was terminally ill with [[tuberculosis|consumption]]. The child's condition deteriorated and Mari...
125: ...g of the Revolution, Marie-Antoinette remained sceptical about the chances of a compromise. However, s... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
35: ... widow of [[Daniel Parker Custis]]. Washington adopted Custis's two children and never fathered any of...
47: ...September 11]] and succeeded in his task. An attempt to dislodge the British, the [[Battle of Germanto...
53: ...ender there was the effective end of British attempts to quell the Revolution. In [[March]] of [[1783]...
62: ...heir labors. He adamantly enforced the secrecy adopted by the Convention during the summer. Many belie...
75: ... Washington died from either a [[strep throat|streptococcal infection of the throat]] or, since he was... - 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.
27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
33: ...monstrate loyalty to the crown—with the exceptions of Hancock and Adams. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
20: ...athered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Achieve...
23: ...or several generations. He attended and then attempted to institute many reforms at the [[College of W...
35: ...er of [[American exceptionalism]] (see also [[exceptionalism]]).
67: *[[Embargo Act of 1807]], an attempt to force respect for U.S. [[neutrality]] by endin...
125: ...amilton's, was the most impressible, the most receptive, mind of his time in America. The range of his... - United States (58223 bytes)
36: ...[[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[[September 3]], [[1783]]<br><br><br>
37: [[September 17]], [[1787]]<br>[[May 23]], [[1788]]<br>[[...
52: ...es use the date each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "ent...
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
60: ...ries. Several federal laws were passed in an attempt to settle the dispute, including the [[Missouri C... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
18: * [[1788]]: Adapted [[centrifugal governor]] for use on steam engin...
22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate the sp... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)|Mar...
4: ... be confused with Adolf Erman (1854-1937), the egyptologist --->.
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
62: ...steroid was discovered every year after that (except the wartime year 1945). Notable asteroid hunters ...
78: ... increased the level of alarm: the increasing acceptance of [[Walter Alvarez]]' theory of [[K-T extinc... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi...
211: ...provided an influential formalisation of the concept of [[algorithm]] and computation: the [[Turing ma...
242: ...–1995) was the inventor of the Bell [[helicopter]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
19: ...the colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the British colonies, from New Englan...
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...
80: ...tion did not produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[Fr... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
38: *[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] adopted by the Second Continental Congress
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
21: ...ry to world Empire. The British Parliament's attempt to raise taxes on the North American colonists ra...
23: ... Congress should be called in the event that attempts at reconciliation with Britain failed.
27: ... "American" States. The Americans were able to capture a British fort at [[Ticonderoga, New York]] an...
31: ...iladelphia, in a vain attempt to end the war by capturing the American "capital city." - Uranus (15207 bytes)
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13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
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... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
8: * [[1773]] - Captain [[James Cook]] becomes the first explorer to c...
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
20: * [[1945]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces capture the almost completely destroyed [[Poland|Polis...
41: * [[2002]] - [[Mount Nyiragongo]] erupts in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], dis...
149: ...Schatz]], [[microbiologist]], discoverer of [[streptomycin]] (b. [[1920]]) - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
15: ...y''', is a [[federal holiday]] celebrating the adoption of the [[United States Declaration of Independ...
23: ... the members of the Congress, but even that was kept secret to protect the members from British repris...
27: ...memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeedi...
29: ...ng prose, as edited by the Congress, was first adopted by the vote of the 4th. It was also the first d...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
25: ...s tactlessness), Brienne went on the attack, attempting to disband the parlements entirely and collect...
31: ''For a more detailed description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] &ndash...
33: ... of the opposition that the government would attempt to gerrymander an assembly to its liking. In ord...
35: ...nd that the Third Estate itself was the nation, kept these resentments alive. - 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... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
2: ... on [[Spain|Spanish]] law). The United States accepts compulsory [[International Court of Justice]] ju...
7: ...[[first-past-the-post]] voting in every state except [[Louisiana]], which has [[runoff voting|runoff]]...
45: ... handling only certain kinds of cases. The bankruptcy courts are branches of the district courts, but...
49: ...ations (or their citizens or subjects); and bankruptcy cases. The Eleventh Amendment removed from fede...
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