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  • Congress and the Colonies and States from 1774 to 1789. He became the president of Colby College in 1889 and served in that position until 1892 ...
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  • === Tegbessou, 1732-1774 === Tegbessou was the sixth King of Dahomey, ruling from 1740 to 1774 ...
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  • by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774. Based on the phlogiston theory that was widely accepted at the time, he called it "dephlogisticated ...
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  • 1774 *This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774) ...
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  • François Quesnay (June 4, 1694 – December 16, 1774) was a French ... Quesnay died on December 16, 1774, in Versailles, France. ...
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  • Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730? – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth ...
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  • to add to the collection. During 1773 and 1774, Diderot made a difficult ... * Eléments de physiologie (1773-1774) * Réfutation d'Helvétius ...
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  • Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a nineteenth-century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be ...
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  • In 1774, Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's richest planters ... 1774. 'Diary of John Adams, Volume 2: Monday. Octr. 24. Founding ...
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  • of Excise,” his first political work. In 1774 his petition failed, and Paine ... Paine arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November 1774, carrying ...
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  • documents for several political events. In 1774 Mason helped George Washington draw up the Fairfax Resolves, in response to Great Britain's ...
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  • From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ... Copley's American years, 1738-1774 an Interpretative History ...
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  • First Provincial Congress from his parish in 1774 and reelected in 1775. In 1776, he was selected to be on the committee of 11 who would prepare a ...
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  • committed had been briefly suppressed from 1774-1778, and finally abolished ... in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, the Inquisition brought to ...
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  • became a public critic of British rule. On March 5, 1774, the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he gave a speech strongly condemning the British ...
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  • training in the law in Turin University (1774), he followed in his father ... During the period from 1774 to 1790, Maistre was a member of Masonic ...
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  • He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1774. After a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the ...
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  • such as Azov from Russia between 1711 and 1774 and the Peloponnesus peninsula ... in 1711, then returned to Russia by treaty in 1774. ===The Battle of ...
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  • Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...
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  • , Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. [http://memory.loc ... Continental and Confederation Congresses, 1774-1789," 76-108, in Inventing ...
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