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- Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]]'''.
5: === [[1760s]] ===
6: *[[1760]] - [[King George III]] crowned
7: ...Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
24: *[[1774]] - [[Dunmore's War]]
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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...assroom Clipart]]]The '''Industrial Revolution''' was the major [[technology|technological]], [[socioe...
3: ...development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth century the grow...
5: ...e world. The impact of this change on [[society]] was enormous and is often compared to the [[Neolithi...
7: The term industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-A...
10: ...] of the 17th century. But one of the main causes was the invention of the steam engine. - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Germans in the government and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...nd [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha Skavronskaya]], was born at [[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on th...
9: ...leisure to devote to her training, and her mother was too illiterate to superintend her studies. She h...
11: It was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter t...
13: ...scent nephew [[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]], who was rumoured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, w... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...loriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynas...
9: ... father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British ...
13: ...and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen".
16: ... succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of ... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
3: ...shed poet, with her first poem published when she was only 13.
5: ...lished in [[Aldgate]], [[London]] in [[1773]]. It was published in London because publishers in [[Bost...
7: ...was not, however, universal. [[Thomas Jefferson]] was among the harshest critics of her poetry, writin...
16: ...To His Excellency George Washington'' written for Washington-history's most famous piece of work-in 17... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
5: ...show that Hancock always wrote his signature this way.
8: ... Upon graduation, he worked for his uncle. From [[1760]]–[[1764]], Hancock lived in England while ...
10: ...and virtuously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
15: ... arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounded by British customs officials for viola...
19: ...ngly condemning the British. In the same year, he was unanimously elected president of the Provisional... - French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
1: ... of the theatres of the [[Seven Years' War]]. The war resulted in France's loss of all its possessions...
5: ...est), since it is the war in which [[New France]] was conquered by the British and became part of the ...
9: ...George's War]] ([[1744]]-[[48]]). The prior three wars, fought more as secondary theatres to European ...
13: ... 1756, marking the beginnings of the Seven Years' War in Europe. [[Native American]]s fought for both...
15: ...on in [[Lower Canada]]. Near the beginning of the war, in [[1755]], the British had expelled French sp... - Seven Years' War (11256 bytes)
1: ...e from the [[neutrality|neutral]] [[Netherlands]] was attacked in [[India]].
3: ...ght alongside the British. The name "Seven Years' War" is used in the United States to refer only to t...
5: ...ustria is called the [[Silesian Wars|3rd Silesian War]].
8: ...ars' War may be viewed as a continuation of the [[War of the Austrian Succession]]. During that confli...
10: ...ore, this allowed Britain to focus her soldiers towards her colonies. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
28: *[[Oswald Achenbach]] ([[1827]]-[[1905]])
48: *[[Washington Allston]] ([[1779]]-[[1843]])
90: *[[Edward Mitchell Bannister]] ([[1828]]-[[1901]])
147: *[[Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa]] ([[1857]]-[[1893]])
471: *[[John William Godward]] ([[1861]]-[[1922]]) - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
1: ... [[French and Indian War]], and the orange region was claimed by [[Spain]]. Note that this map does no...
2: ...commenced," wrote [[John Adams]]. "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."
4: ...The opposite view is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, producing significan...
10: ...ican]] lands east of the [[Mississippi River]]. A war against France's former Indian allies—[[Po...
19: ... of [[Baptist]] views throughout the colonies. It was also the first event that swept through all the ... - Timeline of United States history (2967 bytes)
5: *[[Timeline of United States history (1760-1789)|1760-1789]]
8: ...r origins]] (events leading to the American Civil War)
40: ...ry/civil-war-pictures-and-illustrations.htm Civil War Images]
43: ...ld-war-photos-and-pictures.htm World_War_II World War II Pictures] - Timeline of United States pre-history (1700-1759) (3760 bytes)
1: ...umb|Rev. Jonathan Edwards, a leader of the Great Awakening, is still remembered for his sermon "Sinner...
6: *[[1702]] - [[Queen Anne's War]] (War of the Spanish Succession) begins
10: *[[1713]] - Queen Anne's War ends with the [[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)|Treaty ...
17: ...ching of [[Jonathan Edwards (theology)|Jonathan Edwards]]
19: ...colonies ([[1739]]-[[1741]]) to preach the Great Awakening - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
3: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1760]] to [[1789]]'''.
5: === [[1760s]] ===
6: *[[1760]] - [[King George III]] crowned
7: ...Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian War]]
24: *[[1774]] - [[Dunmore's War]] - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
13: ...- ''[[Chisholm v. Georgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to the Unite...
26: *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]] dies
43: *[[1805]] - [[Barbary War]]: Barbary pirates defeated in Tripoli
60: *[[1812]] - [[War of 1812]] begins
64: ...[1814]] - [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]] ends [[Creek War]] - Michigan (29427 bytes)
17: WaterArea = 103,687 |
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36: ...ppewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', meaning "great water." Bounded by four of the Great Lakes, Michigan...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the ...
42: ...ia maneuvered in the area. Ultimately, Congress awarded the "[[Toledo Strip]]" to Ohio, and Michigan,... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
9: ...r = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] | date = 1760}}
15: ...naeus|Linnaeus]]), more commonly just '''Dodo''', was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[...
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and i...
24: ... season to live through the dry season where food was scarce; contemporary reports speak of the birds ...
27: ...odern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. (The island was first visited by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] in ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...and regarded their purpose as leading the world toward [[progress]] and out of a long period of doubtf...
6: ...tury philosophy, which was closely related to it, was characterized by a focus on belief and piety. So...
14: ...knowledge." This goal in the Age of Reason, which was built on self-evident axioms, reached its height...
16: ... program" (Cassirer 1979: 121–123). There was a wave of change across European thinking at this time...
18: ...ruth that is more provisional, but in that era it was a powerful notion which turned on its head the p... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
29: *[[Wallace Carothers]] (1896-1937), American chemist
40: * Sir [[James Dewar]]
42: * [[Edward Doisy]], (1893-), American biochemist, winner o...
64: *[[Johan Gadolin]], (1760–1852), [[Finns|Finnish]] chemist
134: *[[Wilhelm Ostwald]], (1853-1932), [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemi... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
99: *[[Edward Onslow Ford]] (1852 - 1901)
153: *[[J. Seward Johnson, Jr.]] (1930 - )
159: *[[Jawad Saleem]](1920-1961)
219: *[[Landolin Ohmacht]] (1760-1834)
233: *[[Edward Clark Potter]] (1857 - 1923) - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta dynasty]] oversaw the period...
14: ...beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultanate]], and later, by ...
20: ...857]] popularly known as the [[Sepoy Mutiny|First War of Indian Independence]], resulted in India comi...
26: ...nofficial member of the "[[nuclear club]]", which was followed up with a series of five more tests in ...
36: ...|Dravidian language]], while others argue that it was an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]]. - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... colonies|thirteen North American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British N...
3: ...ctive, including the origins and aftermath of the war, see the [[American Revolution]].
5: ...ous images relating to the American Revolutionary War.]]
10: When the war began, the thirteen American colonies did not ha...
12: ...personally commanded in the field at any one time was fewer than 17,000.
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