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- Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ...ies. The Act passed unanimously on [[March 22]], 1765 and went into effect on [[November 1]] of that ye...
6: ...e was 26 shillings whilst citizens of [[Massachusetts]] paid only around 1 shilling a year back to Lon...
11: ...idn't view the act as equitable at all. To be admitted to the bar or enrolled as a [[Civil law notary|...
13: ...h America. Coastal properties and towns had been attacked by the French, [[Spain|Spanish]], and [[Neth...
17: ...eld at [[Federal Hall]] in New York in October of 1765.
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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
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11: ...of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of Ame...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by ...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s Kings Squar... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
36: ...cob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
39: ... Gottlieb Ackermann|Ackermann, Johann Christian Gottlieb]] (1756-1801)
43: ...rlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Marie Magdalene Charlotte]] (1757-1775)
46: ...ophie Charlotte Ackermann|Ackermann, Sophie Charlotte]] (1714-1792) - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...hildren. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, he...
15: ...767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1765; [[List of rulers of Austria|Archduke of Austria]...
20: ...1745-1792); had issue. [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]: 1765 (abdicated 1790); [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1790; [...
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 ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ... and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Elizabeth of Holstein]]. In [[1744]], Tsarin...
13: ...t, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agriculture an...
21: ...mpire as a result of her first war with it. The Ottomans started a [[Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792|sec...
25: ...em not faced by the anchored Swedish ships. At battle's end, the Russians had lost 50 to 60 ships and... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...m he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the p...
14: ...ism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting is its presentat...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the author...
23: ...he Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, bu...
25: ... world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before the subscribers received ... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...lf-brother Lawrence in [[1751]], and survived an attack of [[smallpox]], although his face was scarred...
31: ...rench, which Washington could not read.) The "[[Battle of Jumonville Glen|Jumonville affair]]" became ...
33: ...[[Braddock Expedition#Battle of the Monongahela|Battle of the Monongahela]]. Washington distinguished ...
41: ... Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appointm...
43: ...ving most of his forces. However, several other battles in the area sent Washington scrambling across ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...iness, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
13: ...o resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial trading.
17: ...oke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the post...
19: ...eady to fight in sixty seconds—and his boycott of [[tea]] imported by the [[British East India C...
27: ... the Continental Congress's demand for [[beef]] cattle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
1: ...hitney.jpg|thumb|Eli Whitney Image courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: '''Eli Whitney''' ([[December 8]], [[1765]] - [[January 8]], [[1825]]) was an [[United Stat...
6: ...pa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four children.
10: [[Image:Cotton-gin.jpg|left|thumb|Cotton gin]]
12: ===Cotton gin=== - James Watt (5070 bytes)
2: <div style="float:right">[[image:James Watt small.jpg]]</div>
3: ...dash;[[August 19]], [[1819]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[mathematician]] and [[engineer]] whose imp...
11: * [[1765]]: While wandering through the [[Glasgow Green]]'...
14: ...Matthew Boulton]] to manufacture his improved [[Watt steam engine]].
22: Watt adopted the [[centrifugal governor]] to regulate ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 5<sup>th</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[January 9]], [[1788]] |
43: ... Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamen...
52: ...y [[New York State]], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The stat...
65: ...egions of the state, considering themselves more attached to [[New York City]] and its suburbs in east... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
23: AdmittanceOrder = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[February 14]], [[1859]] |
36: ...Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultur...
43: ...'s environmental problems, such as the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pa...
49: ...ver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[Br... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
125: *[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Yonge, Charlotte M]], ([[1823]]-[[1901]]), British novelist
156: *[[Edward Young|Young, Edward]], (1683-1765), poet
157: *[[Francis Brett Young|Young, Francis Brett]], (1884-1954), British novelist
162: *[[James Young|Young, James]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
166: *[[John W. Young|Young, John Watts]], (b. 1930), US astronaut - List of painters (54090 bytes)
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38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
102: *[[Jennifer Bartlett]] ([[1941]]-)
130: *[[Bernardo Bellotto]] ([[1721]]-[[1780]])
183: *[[Sandro Botticelli]] ([[1445]]-[[1510]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
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32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
37: *[[Walter Houser Brattain]], (born 1902), US co-inventor of the [[transi...
60: *[[Gottlieb Daimler]], (1834-1900), [[Germany]] — [...
65: ... [[James Dewar]], (1842-1923) — [[Thermos bottle]] - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ... and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution ...
4: ...ture and extent of the American Revolution is a matter of interpretation. It is generally agreed that ...
28: ...ement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs viol...
30: ...ance. In previous years, the colonies had shown little inclination towards collective action. Grenvill...
32: ...ed in 1765, when Grenville passed the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]] as a way to finance the quartering of... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
12: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]] passed
13: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act Congress]] convenes
14: *[[1765]] - [[First Quartering Act]]
19: *[[1771]] - [[Battle of Alamance]] in [[North Carolina]]
20: *[[1772]] - [[Samuel Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Correspondence]] - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and the...
4: ...e [[frontier]] had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the lat...
11: ...d wealth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Eur...
13: ...y close to Europe, Spain and Portugal had taken little interest in them, so as far as the Europeans we...
16: ...]]. At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonia... - History of California (38344 bytes)
3: ...has been occupied for millennia, the lack of a written record and the significant marginalization in t...
13: ...s]] and [[European colonization of the Americas|settlers]] appeared, they found many [[Native American...
19: ...silver. About the same time, Hernán Cortés was attracted by stories of [[Zihuatanejo|Ciguatan]], a w...
50: ... inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting a description in Drake's own account, was disc...
71: ...vasion by [[Imperial Russia|Tsarist Russia]] in [[1765]], however, that King [[Charles III of Spain]] fe...
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