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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler
48: *[[Abd-ar-rahman V]], (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler
73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...ne the Great''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on...
5: ...y 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by Catherine's supporter...
11: ...ion, granting the government greater control over rural areas because of the peasant revolt. This proc...
13: ...eat instituted several drastic reforms within the Russian society. First, she established the [[Free E...
17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
7: ...toinette's mother, the Empress Maria-Theresa, had ruled the Austrian Empire for fifteen years before A...
22: ...'s personal wedding gift to her. It was a fan, encrusted with diamonds.
25: ...mpotent]], but this was not the case. Nor was it true that he suffered from [[phimosis]]. Rather, it s...
34: ...Comte Mercy d'Argenteau, who reported with great frustration that she was doing nothing to further [[A...
36: ... [[Louis XV]] died of [[smallpox]]. The courtiers rushed over to Marie-Antoinette's apartments to swea... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
10: | date of birth=[[February 22]], [[1732]]
19: '''George Washington''', ([[February 22]], [[1732]] – [[December 14]], [[1799...
24: ... - as this paragraph says--> ([[old style]])/[[February 22]], [[1732]] ([[new style]]). His birthday i...
26: ...eemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawrence's death in July [[1752...
49: ...itions and drilled during the spring under the [[Prussia|German]] [[Baron Friedrich von Steuben]], ste... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
19: ...llion, he later became a public critic of British rule. On [[March 5]], [[1774]], the fourth anniversa...
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.)
52: * United States Library of Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://m... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
23: ...;[[August 17]], [[1757]]) and Jane Randolph ([[February 20]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), ...
39: ...dential election, 1800]]. It was resolved on [[February 17]], [[1801]] when Jefferson was elected Pres...
123: ...erect and sinewy. He had angular features, a very ruddy complexion, sandy hair and hazel-flecked, grey...
147: ...clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the 'wall of separ...
161: ...p forever" (''Notes on the State of Virginia'', [[1781]]-[[1785]] Query 18). Though not religious himsel... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...veral territorial water boundaries with Canada, [[Russia]] and [[The Bahamas]]. It is otherwise bounde...
9: ...([[Latin]]: "Out of Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
52: ...nce|Declaration of Independence]]. However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed ...
58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
80: ...tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, as running mates, by the people via the [[U.S. Electora... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
9: * [[1754]]: Learned the trade of mathematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Gl...
15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
21: ...and on the details of the [[visible spectrum|spectrum]] of sunlight they reflect.
56: ...f the discovery, by Sir [[William Herschel]] in [[1781]], of the planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] at th...
58: ...y]]. He discovered a new star-like object in [[Taurus]] and followed the displacement of this object d...
60: ...sta found in [[1807]]. After eight more years of fruitless searches, most astronomers assumed that the...
62: ...le asteroid hunters of this early era were [[John Russell Hind|J. R. Hind]], [[Annibale de Gasparis]],... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
36: *[[Rudjer Boscovich|Ruđer Bošković]], (1711-1787) —...
67: *[[Rudolf Diesel]], (1858-1913), [[Germany]] — [[...
103: * [[William Gruber]] — [[View-master]]
114: *[[Rudolf Hell]], (1901-2002)
115: *[[John Philip Holland]], (1840-1914) — "true" submarine - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
4: ...hat, interpretations vary. At one end of the spectrum is the view that the American Revolution was not...
62: ...ge the American colonies to unite against British rule.]]
66: ...s]]), the [[Canada|Canadian]] provinces of [[New Brunswick]] and [[Ontario]], and [[Freetown]], [[Sier...
80: ...lution did not produce the kind of epoch-breaking rupture with past customs and institutions as the [[... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
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: ...inant power, but found itself mired in debt and struggling to finance the Navy and Army necessary to w...
25: ...anize itself as a [[federal government]], and instructed the colonies to write constitutions for thems...
31: ... York City, where the British occupied the city, brushing aside Washington's feeble efforts of defence...
33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
168: ... when [[John Flamsteed]] catalogued it as 34 [[Taurus (constellation)|Tauri]]. Flamsteed observed Uran...
170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
186: ...|| August 27th, 2004 || November 12th, 2004 || February 22nd, 2004
188: ... September 1st, 2005 || November 16th, 2005 || February 25th, 2005 - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
41: * [[2002]] - [[Mount Nyiragongo]] erupts in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], d...
84: *[[1940]] - [[Kipchoge Keino]], Kenyan runner
123: * [[1893]] - [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], 19th [[President of the Unite...
143: * [[2004]] - [[Rafael Churumba Cordero]], mayor of [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]] (b.... - Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
29: ...ence from the Continental Congress, as opposed to rumors in the street about secret votes.
34: ...ton]] marked the Fourth with a double ration of [[rum]] for his soldiers and an artillery salute. Acro...
36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]... - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...tholic Church]] was forced to undergo radical restructuring. While [[France]] would oscillate between ...
21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777–1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
25: ...d to endorse his measures, insisting that only a truly representative body — preferably the [[Es...
53: ...e reformist minister Necker and completely reconstructed the ministry. Much of Paris, presuming this t...
57: ...ecame the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the ''commune''. The king visited P... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
14: ...xioms, reached its height with [[Baruch Spinoza|Baruch (Benedictus de) Spinoza]]'s Ethics, which expou...
18: ...y, where belief is that human beings apprehend a truth that is more provisional, but in that era it wa...
22: ...uman terms. The quest for the expression of this truth would lead to a series of philosophical works w...
24: The focus on law, involving the separation of rules from the particulars of behavior or experience...
39: ...For [[Voltaire]] « ''Écrasez l'infâme!'' » ("Crush Infamy!") would be a battle cry for the ideal o... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...
7: ...e except [[Louisiana]], which has [[runoff voting|runoff]]s.
29: ...ces]] and [[United States and weapons of mass destruction|nuclear arsenal]]. The president may veto [[...
33: ... [[Central Intelligence Agency]], the [[Food and Drug Administration]] and the [[Environmental Protect...
43: ...ct. From that beginning has evolved the present structure: the Supreme Court, 13 courts of appeals, 94...
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