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- On August 4, 1772, Blake became apprenticed to an engraver, James Basire of Great Queen Street, for the term of seven years. At the end of this ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- volumes of illustrations, issued from 1762 to 1772. While Diderot did the final editing on all the work itself, this encyclopedia gained its breadth ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- by Paul Revere, illustration from the 1772 edition of Benjamin Church ... the work was illustrated by Paul Revere in 1772. Another work, The Sovereignty ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- In 1772, Captain John MacDonald settled on the Island, bringing with him 210 Highland Scots, mostly from the Hebridean Isle of Uist. The move ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- In the spring of 1772, he moved to Fort Hunter to live with the Reverend John Stuart. He became Stuart's interpreter, teacher of Mohawk ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- scholar. Her younger half sister, Sarah Burney (1772 – 1844) also became a novelist, publishing five works of her own. Anne Commire, and Deborah ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- peine forte et dure which was only abolished in 1772), in Scotland in 1708, in Prussia in 1740, in Denmark around 1770, in Russia in 1801.Philip Schaff ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- the war was Yakov Knyazhnin's tragedy Olga (1772). The Russian playwright chose to introduce Sviatoslav as his protagonist, although his active ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- grow to maturity under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which forbade descendants of George II from marrying unless they obtained the monarch's ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- From 1772, after the draining of the Nor Loch, which had been both the city's water supply and place for dumping sewage, Edinburgh expanded ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- New Jersey, he settled in New York City in 1772, and began grammar school. Later, he attended King's College, originally studying anatomy ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- 1792) in The Devil in Love (Le Diable Amoureux, 1772) tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with an amateur human dabbler in the occult, and ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- Nadir Shah (1688-1747). In 1756 Ahmad Shah (1747-1772) of Afghanistan looted Delhi. Complacent in their military superiority, the Mughals failed to ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- The book was translated into French and published in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. A partial translation ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- by such criticism, Hindus such as Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833) re-examined the ancient texts and declared that all the above were later corruptions. Hindus ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- Barry.jpg|thumb|400px|The Education Achilles (ca. 1772), by [[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]]]] According to the incomplete poem Achilleis ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- region remained part of Poland as Inflanty until 1772, when it was joined to Russia. The Duchy of Courland became a Russian province (the Courland Governorate ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- in Latin prose were the works of Swedenborg (d. 1772), Linnaeus (d. 1778), Euler (d. 1783), Gauss (d. 1855), and Isaac Newton (d. 1727). ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- etMeredeVH.htm Sophie Trébuchet] (1772-1821). He was born in 1802 in Besançon (in the region of Franche-Comté) and lived in France for the ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- In 1772, he received his B.A. in theology at Princeton University, but changed his career path two years later and began the study of law in ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
