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- Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
9: ...w up a document to reform the code of laws. A legislative commission representing all classes except t...
19: ...] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatowski]], a former lover, on the [[List of...
21: ...ved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years after it had gained independ... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
24: ...to eat less, Louis-Auguste replied "Why? I always sleep better when I have a full stomach!"
27: Since they were not sleeping together, Louis and Antoinette remained chi...
59: ...indictive rumours began that Marie-Antoinette was sleeping with her brother-in-law. Illegal presses in...
63: ...s. Whatever Joseph II said to Louis XVI, it obviously worked. For the marriage was soon consummated an...
69: ...A-Lebrun.jpg|left|thumb|''Marie Antoinette'' in [[1783]], portrait by her favourite artist, [[Marie Loui... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...s went to sea, eventually becoming admirals. In [[1783]], she was educated briefly by a relative in [[Ox...
7: While her first novel, the posthumously published ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at...
12: ...of gentle but keen satire: she appeals rarely and slightly to the deeper feelings; and the enforcement... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: ...] in [[Africa]], but was captured and sold into [[slavery]] at the age of 7. Around 1760 she was purch...
13: ...amuel Cooper, Who Departed This Life December 29, 1783''
14: ...d Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave'' (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), ...
19: * [[Slave narrative]], [[African-American literature]] - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United ...
26: ... the economic and cultural elite of the [[slavery|slave]]-owning planters of [[Virginia]]. His parents...
43: ...sive there. Washington lost the [[Battle of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, sav...
47: ...r 11]] and succeeded in his task. An attempt to dislodge the British, the [[Battle of Germantown]], fa...
51: ...them there, Washington's forces moved to [[Rhode Island]], where he commanded military operations unti... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
35: ...ution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state. In the same year he was chosen a presid...
43: ...uctions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] — an action which was cited against ...
49: ...gainst the appointment of [[Samuel Swartwout]] ([[1783]]-[[1856]]), who was later a defaulter to a large...
55: ...District of Columbia]] without the consent of the slave states.
59: ... He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the same time voting, perha... - United States (58223 bytes)
36: ...]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[[September 3]], [[1783]]<br><br><br>
58: ...s]] in [[1754]], in which a union was first seriously proposed.
60: ...tion Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though full emancipat...
74: ...e United States|Congress]] (the [[legislature|legislative]] branch), the [[President of the United Sta...
78: ...gave the power to elect senators to the state legislatures; the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United ... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
57: ...s established the trans-Saharan trade route for [[slaves]], [[gold]], and [[ivory]]. In the [[15th cen...
61: ...the regions of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. The 1783 Treaty of Versailles gave Great Britain possessio...
63: ..., and the British tried unsuccessfully to end the slave traffic in The Gambia. They established the mi...
73: ...n United Democratic Party (UDP) boycotted the legislative elections.
80: ...n United Democratic Party (UDP) boycotted the legislative elections. - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
59: ...aribs were eventually deported to [[Roatan]], an island off the coast of [[Honduras]].
61: ... 1860s. Conditions remained harsh for both former slaves and immigrant agricultural workers, as depres...
63: ... Crown Colony government installed in 1877, a legislative council created in 1925, and universal adult...
65: ...d the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence.
67: ...ausing extensive damage to the west coast of the island. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
36: ...th smallest state. The state is named after the island of [[Jersey]] in the [[English Channel]].
43: During the [[English Civil War]] the Island of [[Jersey]] remained loyal to The English Cr...
57: Slightly more than a week after victory at [[Trenton...
59: ...earned of the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris]] (1783) which ended the war.
63: ...d to ratify the Constitutional Amendments banning Slavery and granting rights to America's black popul... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
45: * [[sledges]] - [[Scandinavia]]
119: * [[1620]]: [[Slide rule]]: [[William Oughtred]]
151: * [[1783]]: [[Multitubular boiler engine]]: [[John Stevens...
152: * [[1783]]: Hot air [[balloon]]: [[Montgolfier brothers]]
281: * [[1877]]: [[Induction motor]]: [[Nikola Tesla]] - Thirteen Colonies (4707 bytes)
6: ... colonies of [[Nova Scotia]] and [[Prince Edward Island]]—remained loyal to the British Crown an...
15: ...idence Plantations]], later [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]
37: ...ean'' or [[St. John's Island (Canada)|St. John's Island]]
54: * [[Cayman Islands]]
75: ...a/namerica.htm British North American Colonies to 1783 - Military History & Institutions] - History of science (41710 bytes)
46: ...ranslations and commentaries of Aristotle by the Islamic scholar [[Averroes|Averro볝] were influentia...
49: ...e:Islamic MedText c1500.jpg|thumb|left|Sample of Islamic medical text]]
50: ''See also: [[Islamic science]]''
52: ... together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world.
54: ...H蠍egal蠓yntaxis'' (''The great treatise'') translated as ''[[Almagest]]''. Al-Batani also improved ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]]) - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...ythology)|Icarus]]. Daedalus was trapped on the island of Minos, and so built wings out of feathers a...
15: ...Leonardo da Vinci]] was the first person to seriously design an aircraft, designing a glider in the [[...
19: ...wn human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois...
27: Another person who continually but slowly advanced the state of the art was [[Frank We...
31: ...ights of 25 meters or more "routinely". He rigorously documented his work, including [[photograph]]s, ... - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... [[American Revolutionary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) was one part of the revolution, but the revolu...
30: ...ritish goods, and to the emergence of the popular slogan "[[no taxation without representation]]," in ...
66: ...al component of the populations of the [[Abaco]] islands (in the [[Bahamas]]), the [[Canada|Canadian]]... - United States territorial acquisitions (5763 bytes)
3: ...ndence]]. The treaty with the United Kingdom in [[1783]] defined the original borders of the [[United St...
27: ...ring the [[World War I|First World War]]. Virgin Islands inhabitants became American citizens in [[192...
29: ... system in [[1947]]. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands both achieved independence in [[1986]] and Pa... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
37: ...n of Vermont]], the first in the nation to outlaw slavery
46: *[[1783]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]] ends [[United States Revolutionary War]] - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
7: ...lonies, taking over governmental functions previously exercised by the King and Parliament of Great Br...
9: ...usion of his charges against George III regarding slavery.
11: ... Great Britain, settled by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]], which endowed the nascent Uni...
35: ...h Great Britain was termed the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]].
45: ...ell as a two house legislature. The national legislature, or Congress, envisioned by the Congress emb... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
40: ...ed States two decades later. The population grew slowly until the opening of the [[Erie Canal]] in 18...
60: ...in to the United States by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] that ended the [[American Revo...
68: ...ritorial Governor and Judges to a nine-member Legislative Council, appointed by the U.S. President who...
71: ...h state), it was admitted concurrently with the [[slave]] state of [[Arkansas]].
80: *[[1847]] A law was passed by the State Legislature to re-locate from Detroit the State Capital ...
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