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- Shays' rebellion was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 13:24, 27 January 2023
- Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, appeared in 1786, 1787, and 1790. During 1788 ... ** Il Burbero di buon cuore (1786, from the play by Carlo Goldoni ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that all three ... His third discourse (delivered in 1786 and published in 1788) with ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- of birth in the British Virgin Islands in 1786 where he saw his mother for ... Thornton then spent time in Paris, before returning to Tortola in ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- house of representatives 1778-1780, 1785, and 1786; served in the state senate in 1781 and 1782; member of the privy council in 1782; member of the ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Condorcet later wrote Vie de M. Turgot (1786), a biography which spoke ... In 1786, Condorcet worked on ideas for the differential and integral ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- the First Unitarian Church at Boston. In 1786-1787 the family returned to ... Wardle, p. 40. This Hackney College was a short-lived institution ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- At the age of eighteen, he joined Sarov Monastery as a novice. In 1786 he officially took his monastic vows and was given the name Seraphim, ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- of seven children born to Samuel Ward (1786-1839) and Julia Rush Cutler ... Greene, also a Rhode Island Governor (1778-1786), and his wife Catharine Ray. ...13 KB (2,162 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- In September 1786, commissioners from five states met in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments to the Articles of Confederation intended ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- In May 1786, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina proposed that Congress ... . access October 6, 2007 On January 21, 1786, the Virginia Legislature ...26 KB (3,802 words) - 03:12, 24 November 2022
- as Annona dodecapetala by Lamarck (1786), and has since been named ... * Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de. 1786. Encyclopédie Méthodique Botanique ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- He came out of retirement when he was appointed in 1786 to represent Virginia as a delegate to a Federal Convention, to meet in Philadelphia for the ...8 KB (1,220 words) - 07:53, 11 November 2022
- | term_end = 17791784–1786 | lieutenant = | predecessor = First GovernorBenjamin ... 1779, an office he held again from 1784-1786. After the Revolution, Henry ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- For the next few years Burns' life was nothing but hardship. ... In the winter of 1786 in Edinburgh Burns met James Johnson, a struggling ...16 KB (2,543 words) - 03:14, 15 December 2022
- kind, including a novel, Sophie, printed in 1786, and a tragedy, Jeanne Grey ... and the marriage took place on January 14, 1786. The husband was 37 ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of HMS Sirius and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British penal colony ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
