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- Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|"The Boston Massacre," an engraving by patriot Paul Revere.]]
7: *[[1763]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]] ends [[French and Indian Wa...
27: ** [[Administration of Justice Act]] ([[May 20]]),
39: *[[1778]] - [[Treaty of Alliance]]
46: *[[1783]] - [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]] ends [[United States Revolu... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...Massachusetts|Concord]], and were turned back. Retreating to Boston, the British soldiers were subjec...
9: ...in Franklin]], but the style of the document is attributed primarily to [[Thomas Jefferson]]. However...
11: ...ent United States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River...
13: ... of political institutions troubled the young country. The Second [[Continental Congress]] continued ...
15: ...stitution, which was ratified by eleven States in 1788. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...ay of the Julian year by all Western European countries except England between about 1450 and 1600. Th...
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[Londo...
27: ...rdinand de Lesseps]] begins [[France|French]] construction of the [[Panama Canal]].
33: ...Federation|federate]] as the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]; [[Edmund Barton]] becomes first [[Prime Mi...
37: ...th Australia]] and transferred to Commonwealth control. - January 2 (10888 bytes)
8: ...uista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders.
10: *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] becomes the ...
16: *[[1870]] - Construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] begins.
19: ...879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket ...
20: ...ites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[trust]]. - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: ...st is ''re + legio'' or "re-reading," a meaning attributed by [[Cicero]] to describe the repetition of...
19: ... This narrower definition places "religion" in contradistinction with [[rationalism]], [[secular human...
21: ...re causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearance. Th...
23: ...ligions. This definition places "religion" in contradistinction to "spirituality," and therefore does...
51: * Ceremonies and/or traditions unique to the set of beliefs - Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
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7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Marsupialia]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Diprotodontia]]}} - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
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7: ...tween the American revolutionaries and the French troops who had assisted them resulted in the spread ...
9: ...ement. The [[proletariat]] and the non-bourgeois strata of the middle class had either not yet evolved...
15: ...ebted, so deeply as to be effectively bankrupt. Extravagant expenditures by [[Louis XIV]] on luxuries ...
17: ...pital]] in France, as it was not nearly as much a trading nation as was Britain. - French Revolution (36529 bytes)
2: ...he popular imagination. It downplays the previous trend of absolutism and people as subjects and ampli...
21: ...r-General of the Finances in [[1783]], pursued a strategy of conspicuous spending as a means of convin...
25: ...inced the short-term creditors on whom the French treasury depended to maintain its day to day operati...
27: ...e [[1614]]. Brienne resigned on [[August 25]], [[1788]], and Necker again took charge of the nation's f...
31: ...iled description of the events of [[August 8]], [[1788]] – [[June 17]], [[1789]], see [[Estates-Ge... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...progress]] and out of a long period of doubtful [[tradition]], full of irrationality, superstition, an...
6: ... proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In this peri...
8: ...nment]] and sciences such as [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]].
14: ...here God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jef...
16: ...z’s treatise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its t... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
2: ...dent of the United States|President]] must ratify treaties and make important appointments "with the A...
10: ...ife and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likeness to the British House of Lords as po...
12: ...uisite number of states (nine out of the 13) in [[1788]], but its full implementation was set for [[Marc...
14: ...Johnson]] in [[1868]] for political purposes; the trial ultimately ended in acquittal, with the Senate...
16: ...to a period of irrelevance that stood in sharp contrast with the pre-Civil War era. Very few senators ... - Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
1: ...lay at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]].]]
2: ...ederal republic]] of 50 [[U.S. states]], the [[District of Columbia]], and many [[insular area]]s, the...
15: ... and consent for presidential nominations and for treaties;
16: ...use impeachment proceedings and subsequent Senate trials;
29: ...jority]] in both chambers of [[Congress]] for "[[treason]], [[bribery]], or other [[high crimes and m... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
16: ...N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...cted President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth...
26: ...lled [[Nieuw Amsterdam]]) in about [[1650]]. In [[1788]] [[Isaac Roosevelt]] was a member of the state c...
30: ...ly. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mother. Since James was a rather ... - Steamboat (11603 bytes)
15: ...ver boatmen took exception to the threat to their trade, and smashed it up.
21: ...en built a steamboat which underwent a successful trial in [[1787]]. The following year a second boat ...
23: ...us development of steamboats. Although plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Clyde canal were thwa...
30: ... few of which survive to the present day, most destroyed by boiler explosions or fires. One of the fe...
32: ...identally, the cartoon ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'' introduced steamboat pilot [[Mickey Mouse]] to the pub... - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
8: ...anted payment and the military who wanted more control. However, despite these problems, with the hel...
26: *Nov. 1, 1784- Dec. 24, 1784 [[Trenton, New Jersey]]
30: *Nov. 5, 1787- Oct. 21, 1788
31: *Nov. 3, 1788- Mar. 2, 1789
44: *Lynn Montross; ''The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Cont... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...is many quotations and his experiments with [[electricity]]. Franklin was a member of the [[Freemasons...
8: ===Ancestry===
21: Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. His fathe...
23: ...vvy about cultivating a positive image of an industrious and intellectual young man earned him a great...
27: ...t]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...t.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime...
5: ==Introduction==
8: ...ebra]], [[trigonometry]], [[navigation]], and [[astronomy]], skills he would need one day to command h...
12: ...phy and was responsible for mapping much of the entrance to the [[Saint Lawrence River]] during the si...
14: ...xtent of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given by the [[Admiralty]]. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
10: ...eat Fire" of [[Boston, Massachusetts |Boston]] destroys 349 buildings.
14: ... of [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property]].
15: ...ce]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[electric chair]].
21: ...]] – [[Dachau]], the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
22: ...[[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]], makes his famous speech regarding the [[Ba... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves mo...
11: ...] - Journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]] began his trek to find the missionary and explorer [[David Liv...
14: ...he [[Congressional Medal of Honor]] for his first trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] flight.
17: ...]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]]
19: ...e on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180 - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...n [[English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
42: *[[Emil Artin]] (Austria, [[1898]] - [[1962]])
71: *[[Eugenio Beltrami]] (Italy, [[1835]]-[[1900]]) - Abigail Adams (3753 bytes)
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