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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...hildren. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, he...
13: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Anna (1738-1739)
15: ...763), then HSH Princess Marie Josephe of Bavaria (1739-1767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]...
26: *[[Marie Antoinette|HM Queen Marie Antoinette of France]], n饠HI&RH Archduchess Marie Antonie...
35: ...red to attack Prussia in [[1756]]. Frederick II attacked first however, invading [[Saxony]], another ... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
5: ...nchester, Hampshire|Winchester]] to seek medical attendance, but so rapid was the progress of her mala...
9: ...ed when they were published, with [[Sir Walter Scott]] in particular praising her work: - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
7: national_motto = Yaqeen-e-muhkam, ittihād, nazm<br /> ([[Urdu]]: Faith (self confidenc...
62: ...nto the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE, as petty rulers (such as [[Theodamas]]) and as administra...
69: ...he [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entire area ...
81: ...kistan Wars|three all out wars]] due to these unsettled issues. Other inherited legacies of British ru...
90: ...28]], [[1933]] in the pamphlet ''Now or Never'' [http://www.zyworld.com/slam33/non.htm]. He saw it as ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
19: ...9]] - [[George Whitefield]] tours the colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening
28: ...attle of the Plains of Abraham]], part of the [[Battle of Quebec (1759)]]
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47: *[http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.c... - March 20 (10075 bytes)
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[...
10: ...] – The "Great Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
17: ...list party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
22: ...alia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Battle of the Philippines (1942)|fall of the Philippin...
29: *[[1974]] – A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness [[Anne, Princes... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
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39: *[[Leone Battista Alberti]], (1404-1472)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
57: *[[Archibald Alison (Scottish author)|Archibald Alison]], (1757-1839){{fn|R}... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...r 21]], [[1694]] – [[May 30]], [[1778]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a...
12: ...dil;ois' mother, instructed him in ''les belles lettres'' and deism, and the child showed a faculty fo...
14: ...is father stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
16: ...he tragedy of ''Oedipe'', which he had already written, privately known. He was introduced to the famo...
18: ...The origin of the name has been much debated and attempts have been made to show that it existed in th... - Johann Sebastian Bach (31106 bytes)
3: ...hann Sebastian Bach, [[1748]] portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann]]
5: ... B Minor (Bach)|Mass in B Minor]] and the [[St. Matthew Passion]].
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30: ...hich they were originally performed; some were written using traditional church hymns, such as ''Wache...
32: ...omposer himself considered the monumental ''St. Matthew Passion'' among his greatest masterpieces; in ... - Leonhard Euler (10366 bytes)
3: ...unction (mathematics)|function]]" (defined by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] - [[1694]]) to describe an...
10: ...mathematics. Paul Euler, Leonhard's father, had attended [[Jakob Bernoulli]]'s mathematical lectures ...
37: ...atical analysis, it was Euler who synthesised [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s differential [[calculus]...
61: ...en novae theoriae musicae'' in 1739 which was an attempt to combine [[mathematics]] and [[music]]; a b...
106: *[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathe... - Carolus Linnaeus (8550 bytes)
5: ...med as a youth to be a churchman, but he showed little enthusiasm for it. His interest in [[botany]] ...
18: ...uld have been horrified by it. Linnaeus was only attempting a convenient way of categorizing the eleme...
20: ...me deriving from the [[Small-leaved Lime|lime]] [http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/tilia/tilia/tilicor.h...
34: ...erted it to the form we are familiar with today [http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html].
35: ...on the current Swedish 100-[[krona]] bank notes [http://www.riksbank.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=10571]... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
18: ...7|Act of Union]] passed merging the [[Scotland|Scottish]] and the [[England|English]] Parliaments, thu...
30: * [[1739]]: [[Nadir Shah]] defeats the [[Mughal Empire|Mug...
33: * [[1741]]: [[Russia]]ns begin settling the [[Aleutian Islands]].
35: * [[1750]]: peak of the [[Little Ice Age]]
38: * [[1757]]: [[Battle of Plassey]] signals the beginning of [[British... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...he [[Glorious Revolution]] of [[1688]] to the [[battle of Waterloo]] in [[1815]]<ref>{{cite book | aut...
6: ... prominence. Philosophers were dreaming about a better age without the christian fundamentalism of ear...
12: ...a battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in the [[Battle of Poltava]]]]
18: ... Spanish Succession|Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_spanishsucc...
20: * [[1702]]: [[Forty-seven Ronin]] attack [[Kira Yoshinaka]] and then commit [[seppuku]]... - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
44: ==Landmarks and tourist attractions==
50: ... The white nights are closely linked to another attraction — the nine drawbridges spanning the ...
74: ...1728–1740), St Pantaleon church (1735–1739), and St Andrew Cathedral (1764–1780) are a...
108: ... its kind in the world and so nicely set that no attachment to the base is needed. A striking monument...
118: ...ge of [[Peter the Great]] and the reconstructed [http://www.konstantinpalace.com/ Constantine Palace],...
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