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- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met in 1774, early in the American ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774-1789: with sketches of the ... Charles Town and a convention was called in 1774 and Heyward was a delegate ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- were Veronica (1773-1795), Euphemia (1774-ca. 1834) and Elizabeth (1780 ... * Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774 * Boswell: the Ominous Years, 1774-1776 ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- which passed the Coercive Acts in April 1774 to punish Boston and the colony ... was appointed military governor in April 1774. Driven from the country by ...9 KB (1,449 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet and writer of the Romantic school. Southey was intimately linked to all ...13 KB (2,061 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Continental Congress and its President in 1774, Arthur also became a political ... and attending the provincial conventions in 1774 and 1775. ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- From 1765 to 1774, he focused on science. In 1765, he published his ... General of Finance under Louis XVI (in 1774). Condorcet was recognized ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- cause of the American Revolutionary War. In 1774 Gage became governor of Massachusetts ... In May of 1774, he was appointed martial law Royal governor, or commander ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is an example of the author ... * Prometheus 1772–1774 * Götz von Berlichingen (Drama) 1773 ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- began with Iphigénie en Aulide (April 19, 1774). The premiere sparked a huge ... On August 2, 1774, the French version of Orfeo ed Euridice was performed ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- * Catherine Wedgwood (1774–1823) * Sarah Wedgwood (1776–1856) ... in his paperwork and stationery. In 1774 the Empress Catherine of Russia ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- *Register House, Edinburgh (1774-1789) *Saltram House, Plymouth, Devon ... *Stowe, Buckinghamshire (1774) *Syon House interior, Brentford (1762-1769) ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- He took this issue to parliament, and in 1774 was called to give evidence ... In 1774, the Parliament passed the Gaol Act, which abolished jailer ...10 KB (1,593 words) - 05:58, 3 August 2022
- smallpox in humans, including Benjamin Jestey in 1774 and the German teacher Peter Plett in 1791 (Plett 2006). Two decades before Jenner's inoculation ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- legislature met in Salem on June 17, 1774, Adams locked the doors and ... Intolerable Acts, and adopted in September 1774. Whose "spirited" ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- and served in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1774-1780. ==American Revolution== At the onset of the war in 1775, Wayne raised a militia and, ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was born in Leominster ... John Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26 ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- Congress, which met briefly during 1774. The second Congress managed ... ed.), Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 2:44–48. Retrieved ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- violent resistance, notably at San Diego in 1774. When he reached Monterey ... these points, removing Fages from office in 1774. Serra then returned to California ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 14:16, 12 May 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- === Tegbessou, 1732-1774 === Tegbessou was the sixth King of Dahomey, ruling from 1740 to 1774 ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- 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 ...7 KB (964 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- 1774 *This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774) ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- François Quesnay (June 4, 1694 – December 16, 1774) was a French ... Quesnay died on December 16, 1774, in Versailles, France. ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730? – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- to add to the collection. During 1773 and 1774, Diderot made a difficult ... * Eléments de physiologie (1773-1774) * Réfutation d'Helvétius ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a nineteenth-century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- In 1774, Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's richest planters ... 1774. 'Diary of John Adams, Volume 2: Monday. Octr. 24. Founding ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- of Excise,” his first political work. In 1774 his petition failed, and Paine ... Paine arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November 1774, carrying ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ... Copley's American years, 1738-1774 an Interpretative History ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- documents for several political events. In 1774 Mason helped George Washington draw up the Fairfax Resolves, in response to Great Britain's ...8 KB (1,220 words) - 07:53, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- committed had been briefly suppressed from 1774-1778, and finally abolished ... in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, the Inquisition brought to ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- 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 ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- , Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. [http://memory.loc ... Continental and Confederation Congresses, 1774-1789," 76-108, in Inventing ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- His only son, Charles, Viscount Brome, (b. 1774), succeeded as 2nd Marquess Cornwallis. He married Lady Louisa Gordon, daughter of the 4th Duke ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- Patriot, element among the colonists. On July 20, 1774 ... In August 1774, Greene helped organize a local militia, which was ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- In 1774 he became professor of physics at the Royal Seminary, and the year following, announced the invention of a machine that was capable of ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- to her successor Madame du Barry. In 1774, the 20 year old Louis XVI, upon his accession to the throne, gave the château and its surrounding ...10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
- induce immunity to smallpox during the epidemic of 1774, thereby making them immune to smallpox. Twenty-two years later, by injecting a human with the ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 16:11, 27 July 2021
- of Orenburg, and it lasted for six years. In 1774 Bashkiria supported Pugachev's rebellion. Yemelyan Pugachev was a Cossack who declared himself ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- market for still-life painting. Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), eldest son of Revolutionary era painter Charles Willson Peale, was the first American still ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1774 and served very actively throughout the War, earning high esteem in the eyes of his fellow delegates ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Russian patrons. The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774) gave Russia the right to make "representations" to the Sultan in defense of his Orthodox ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Goethe quickly followed this up, in 1774, with the novella which many ... and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), which gained him enormous ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- of German letters, Die Gelehrtenrepublik (1774). In 1775 he travelled south, making the acquaintance of Goethe on the way, and spending a year ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 11:03, 11 April 2024
- In 1774 he was elected member for Bristol, "England's second ... *On American Taxation (1774): "Whether you were right or wrong ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- by the work of Johann Gottfried Herder (1774-1803) and Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788). Bastian learned the languages and religious rituals of ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- England and Germany (Sevel, Jensen, Jesty 1774, Rendall, Plett 1791) who ... In 1774, during a smallpox epidemic, Dorset farmer, Benjamin Jesty ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Under the leadership of Ann Lee, beginning in 1774, the work ethic ... to America. Mother Ann arrived on August 6, 1774 in New York City, and in 1776 ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- , the daughter of Boston Loyalists, on June 16, 1774. In spite of separations due to his military service, they remained a devoted couple for the rest ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 January 2023
- meaning "heavy") was first identified in 1774 by Carl Scheele and extracted in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy in England. The oxide was initially ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 08:07, 20 September 2023
- of Loreto within the Roman Curia; in 1774 the vice-legate was made president ... had the Papal States occupied from 1768 to 1774, and substituted French institutions ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
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- * "The Patriot" (1774) ===Poetry=== * London (1738) * "Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane" (1747) ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- * Anderson, M.S. 1991. The Eastern Question, 1774-1923: A Study in International Relations. Houndmills, UK: Macmillan Education. ISBN 9780333037812. ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- and opened their own upholstery business in 1774. Competition was stiff and business slow. Ross and John attended Christ Church and their pew ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- (called "Patsy"), Jane Randolph (1774-1775), a stillborn or unnamed ... ==Political career from 1774 to 1800== [[Image:Jefferson.jpg|thumb ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- family had immigrated to America from Scotland in 1774, and brought with them strong opinions on religion and a belief in the value of education. In ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who observed the greenish-yellow gas when experimenting with seawater ...15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- trading posts along the east coast. From about 1774 to 1824, it was a favorite haunt for pirates. In 1793, Antananarivo was made the capital of the Merina ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- It was published much later, in 1774, under the title Travel Journal. While in Rome in 1581, Montaigne learned that he had been elected mayor ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Virginia and Kentucky. In the summer of 1774, Boone volunteered to travel ... believed Henderson did not hire Boone until 1774. For doubts that Henderson ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Johan Gottlieb Gahn, isolated the pure element in 1774 by reduction of the dioxide with carbon. Around the beginning of the nineteenth century ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 11:03, 9 March 2023
- Forbes, An Account of the Chapel of Rosslyn (1774). [[Image:Rosslyn Chapel Princes Pillar 1778.jpg|thumb|right|1778 drawing of the inscription.]] ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- In 1774, Captain James Cook visited the island, and estimated the population at that time to be about 200,000. Another estimate from the same ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- England was officially opened on November 1, 1774, and is still going strong today. The Arcade in Providence, Rhode Island introduced the concept to ...16 KB (2,407 words) - 01:55, 15 December 2022
- noted. Mandatory education was introduced in 1774; the goal was to form an educated class from which civil servants could be recruited. ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- its role in the Balkans. Beginning in 1774, Russia protected Orthodox Christian within the Balkans had been recognized by the Ottomans. The volunteers ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- * Pointer, Margaret. Niue 1774 1974: 200 Years of Conflict and Change. Otago University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1877578953 * Pule, John, and Nicholas ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 02:29, 16 November 2022
- In 1774, Gainsborough and his family moved to London to live in Schomberg House, Pall Mall. In 1777, he again began to exhibit his paintings ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- Otis Sr. (1702-1778) and Mary Allyne Otis (1702-1774) in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Her mother was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Doty ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- in the New World by the time it was completed in 1774, at great expenses to Spain. The fortress served as both a military base and prison over the next ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the 1774 Continental Congress, and first governor of the state of Virginia. Henry is remembered ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- was the raid on Fort William and Mary, December 14, 1774 in Portsmouth Harbor, which netted the rebellion sizable quantities of gunpowder, small arms ...33 KB (4,724 words) - 09:19, 11 March 2023
- The name prairie dog is attested to from at least 1774 (Harper 2001). The 1804 journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition note that in September 1804 ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- angered the colonists. The Quebec Act of 1774 extended Quebec's boundaries ... . The fourth act was the Quartering Act of 1774, which compelled the residents ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- The original Building Society was formed in the United Kingdom in 1774. Most of the original societies were fully "terminating," meaning ...19 KB (3,012 words) - 17:07, 23 December 2022
- Louis XVI’s ascension to the throne in 1774, Marie-Antoinette ordered ... Marie-Antoinette moved into these rooms in 1774, a complete reorganization ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- large and modest. His son, Tokunyu VIII 1745-1774, followed him; and then Chonyu's second son, Ryonyu IX 1756-1834; and Ryonyu's son, Tannyu ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- In 1774, Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the war against Spain. While with the Portuguese, Phillip conveyed a fleet ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- about the political unrest in the city. In 1774, Great Britain closed the port of Boston and began to quarter soldiers in great numbers all around ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- less formal dances, particularly the jig. One 1774 account states that: Betwixt the country dances they have what I call everlasting Jigs. A couple ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- Europeans began to encroach on the island in 1774, when rumors of Russian fur traders harvesting sea otters for valuable pelts caused the Spanish ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- co-discovered by Lavoisier and Priestley in 1774. From the 1770s until the 1850s, the caloric theory was the commonly accepted theory on gas behavior ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Système social (1773), Politique naturelle (1773-1774), and Morale universelle (1776), but these later writings were not as popular or influential as ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- #039;s sons at Bowood House near Calne in 1774, he discovered a gas that French scientist Antoine Lavoisier would later name oxygen. Priestley ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas: 1774-1776 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford ... * Forrest, Thomas. A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas: 1774-1776 ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- had already abolished it before statehood (1774). The first state to abolish ... html "Thoughts Upon Slavery"] 1774. Retrieved March 16, 2018. ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- #039;s War at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. In the American Revolutionary War, many Shawnee villages were destroyed by American frontiersmen ...19 KB (2,963 words) - 04:39, 27 February 2023
- the old capital, Antigua Guatemala, in 1773-1774. This region was not as rich in gold and silver as Mexico or Peru, and was therefore not considered ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Commons representing Liskeard, Cornwall, in 1774, but became a "mute" ... & Co., 1956. vol.1: 1750-1773; vol.2: 1774-1784; vol.3: 1784-1794. ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- *Hills, Richard L. James Watt, His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774 (Vol 1). Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 978-1843060451 *Marsden, Ben. Watt ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- Captain James Cook was the first European to sight the island in 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific. He named it after the Duchess ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- Building on this discovery, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and Félix Savart (1791-1841) established that a current-carrying wire exerts a magnetic force ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- traveled into Quechan territory in the winter of 1774, marking the beginning of continuous interaction. Today, Yuman tribes live on reservations ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2023
