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  • text=The Code of Hammurabi, created ca. 1780 B.C.E., is one of the earliest sets of laws found and one of the best preserved examples of this ...
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  • became the center of empire under Hammurabi (c. 1780 B.C.E. and again under Nebuchadnezzar II (reigned 605–562 B.C.E.). Fabled for the beautiful hanging ...
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  • image_desc=A painting by the American Edward Hicks (1780–1849), showing the animals boarding Noah's Ark two by two| text=According to the ...
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  • Maria Theresa (May 13, 1717 – November 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and, through her marriage ...
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  • Sir William Blackstone (July 10, 1723 – February 14, 1780) was an ... he built at Wallingford. On February 14, 1780, Blackstone died at the age ...
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  • Mason spent the years between 1776 and 1780 writing for establishment of a government independent of Great Britain. In 1780 he grew disgusted ...
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  • the city's fall to the British in 1780, he was sent as a prisoner ... of the state house of representatives 1778-1780, 1785, and 1786; served in ...
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  • discovery of a fossil in the Netherlands in 1780 preceding dinosaur fossil ... animals. The specimen was discovered in 1780 by quarry-workers in a subterranean ...
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  • In 1780 the British plundered his plantation and carried off all of ... but was captured and imprisoned in 1780. Later he was sent to a prison ...
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  • Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; May 21, 1780 – October 12, 1845) was ... *Samuel, Bill. Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780-1845) Quaker Prison Reformer ...
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  • Queen of Kingdom of Hungary and Bohemia 1740 - 1780. === House of Habsburg ... * Maria Theresa, queen of Hungary 1741 - 1780 * Joseph II, king of ...
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  • battles of Dominica and Saint Lucia during 1780 and of Tobago during 1781 ... Hood to rear-admiral on September 26, 1780, and sent him to the West ...
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  • it gave performances in a private home, but in 1780 it acquired the Petrovka Theater and began producing plays and operas. [[Image:Inside_Moscow_Bolshoi_Theatre ...
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  • in February 1779, and Bassein in December 1780. Another Bengal detachment led by Captain Popham captured Gwalior in August 1780. Hastings sent ...
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  • his military service and returned home in 1780 to Springfield, Massachusetts. In the summer of 1780 he married Lucy Cooley of Longmeadow, Massachusetts ...
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  • dengue fever (published in 1789 on a case from 1780). Rush lived during the Age of Heroic Medicine (1780-1850), and is considered ...
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  • Island) which proved unsuccessful. In June 1780, Greene was in command at ... he had lost Charleston. In the summer of 1780, near Camden, South Carolina ...
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  • quot; ("The Lion of the Punjab") (1780-1839) was a Sikh emperor of ... Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh born in 1780 in Gujranwala in modern ...
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  • [[File:Oyo Empire at Its Greatest Extent, c. 1780 (5).jpg|thumb|300px|Oyo Empire at Its Greatest Extent, c. 1780]] The Oyo Empire was a large ...
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  • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780) was a Roman Catholic Abbé and a leading philosopher and psychologist of ...
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