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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wi... - 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]] - 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...
11: ...ich were more manageable for the government. In [[1785]] Catherine issued a charter that: allowed the ge...
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: ...]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and Sophie-B顴rix in [[1786]].
75: After she turned thirty in [[1785]], Marie-Antoinette also began to dress with more...
95: ...鰨, was terminally ill with [[tuberculosis|consumption]]. The child's condition deteriorated and Mari... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...relative in [[Oxford]] then [[Southampton]]. In [[1785]]-[[1786]], she was educated at the Reading Ladie... - 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: From [[1780]]–[[1785]], he was [[governor of Massachusetts]]. Hancock'...
33: ...monstrate loyalty to the crown—with the exceptions of Hancock and Adams.
36: ... in Congress assembled]], from [[November 23]], [[1785]] to [[June 6]], [[1786]]. He was preceded in th... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events and impressions of men. The earlies...
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...
46: ... with Great Britain and again sent to Europe in September [[1779]]. The [[France|French]] government, ...
50: In [[1785]] John Adams was appointed the first American min... - 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... - Geology (12007 bytes)
20: ...often viewed as the first modern geologist. In [[1785]] he presented a paper entitled ''Theory of the E...
22: ... [[volcano]]es, as opposed to the ''[[Neptunism|Neptunists]]'', who believed that all rocks had settle...
26: ...in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
33: ... and by [[Arthur Holmes]], but wasn't broadly accepted until the [[1960s]] when the theory of plate te... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
48: ...n]]. On [[June 29]], [[1776]], the convention adopted a constitution that established Virginia as a c...
57: ...stone was laid by Governor [[Patrick Henry]] in [[1785]].
88: ...ncil-manager]] form of government. There are exceptions, notably [[Richmond, Virginia]], which has a ...
127: ...g military installations concentrated in the [[Hampton Roads]] area, tobacco and peanut farming all th...
137: ...abeth River (Virginia)|Elizabeth River]] at [[Hampton Roads]], the [[James River (Virginia)|James Riv... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
35: ... BC: [[Plywood]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
40: * [[Cement]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
41: ... River [[boat]]s in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: ... Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[sculptor]] and [[painter]]
11: ...inci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sculptor and inventor
68: *[[John James Audubon]] ([[1785]]-[[1851]])
123: *[[Captain Beefheart]] ([[1941]]-)
251: *[[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]] ([[1699]]-[[1779]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
68: *[[Karl Drais]], (1785-1851), [[Germany]] — [[bicycle]] ([[Draisin...
198: *[[Henry Miller Shreve]], (1785-1854) — [[sidewheeler]], [[snagboat]], vari...
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)
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...
77: *[[Northwest Indian War]] ([[1785]]-[[1795]])
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
47: *[[1785]] - [[Treaty of Hopewell]] - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
3: ... Burr, Jr.''' ([[February 6]], [[1756]]–[[September 14]], [[1836]]) was an [[United States|Ameri...
13: ...Long Island]] Burr saved an entire brigade from capture.
24: ...he [[New_York_State_Assembly]] from [[1784]] to [[1785]], but Burr became seriously involved in politics...
38: ...resentatives|House of Representatives]]. The attempts of a powerful faction among the Federalists to s...
46: ...ed with a challenge to a duel, which Hamilton accepted. Both men had been noted duelists in the past,... - 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: ...g a crossing of the English Channel on January 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. Bal... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...powered or not is unclear. River boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it u...
17: ...England, made his own engine and in [[1763]] attempted to put it in a boat. The boat sank, and while h...
21: ...lliam Henry, had made a model paddle steamer in [[1785]], and subsequently developed propulsion by float...
44: ...s in the Solent"'' offering outings from [[Southampton]], [[England]] with views of the two triple exp...
60: *[http://www.rtptv.homestead.com/rtpcruisingworld.html Cruising The... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...osition to Britain grew. It lasted only from [[September 5]], 1774, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Phi...
8: ...ost importantly, on [[July 4]], [[1776]], they adopted the [[Declaration of Independence]]. This Cong...
14: *Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 [[Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
20: *Mar. 5, 1777- Sept. 18- 1777 Philadelphia
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvani... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
9: ... Josiah Franklin, was born at [[Ecton]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[England]] on [[December 23]], [[1657]...
17: ...7]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[1699]]), Ebenezer ([[September 20]], [[1701]]), Thomas ([[December 7]], [[1...
23: ...o to [[London]] where, finding Keith's promises empty, he again worked as a compositor in a printer's ...
27: ...and Franklin felt that this [[enlightenment (concept)|enlightenment]] partly contributed to the Americ...
44: ... storms travel'', eventually leading to the ''synoptic charts'' of ''dynamic meteorology'', replacing ...
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