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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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  • of Morals and Legislation, appeared in 1780. Bentham corresponded with ... of Morals and Legislation was published in 1780. Other works included, Panopticon ...
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  • 1780-85 Sciences and the Sciences on the Government (1780) *Letters Concerning ...
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  • composed several religious works. From 1778 to 1780, he studied music in Bologna and Milan. Cherubini's early operas, settings of Italian libretti ...
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  • librarian and stayed in that post until 1780. It was here that he conducted ... Preistley held the post of librarian to Lord Shelburne from 1772 to ...
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  • and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 025206142X * Deutsch, Sarah. 2002. Women and the ...
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  • , Savannah (1778–83), and Charleston (1780–82), and various slices ... Loyalist provincial line was 9,700, in December 1780. Smith 264–7. ...
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  • 280 px|Former workhouse at Nantwich, dating from 1780]] ... *Rose, Michael E. 1971. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. London: David ...
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  • Marcus Whiffen, American Architecture Since 1780 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press ... * Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge, MA: ...
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  • agricultural and industrial economy before 1780." However, he also argued ... of exploitation of child labour between 1780 and 1840, and every historian ...
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  • the British at Port Royal Island, S.C. In 1780 when the British conducted ... political leaders in South Carolina in the 1780 and 1790s. At times he served ...
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  • ) (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military ... :geboren 1 Juni 1780 :gestorben 16 Nov 1831 Which translates as: ...
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  • In 1780, he painted the portraits of King George III and his queen ... of this genre is The Cottage Door (circa 1780), that depicts a mother and ...
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  • The Netherlands entered the war late in 1780, but was soon overwhelmed ... Charleston, capturing it on May 12, 1780. With relatively few casualties ...
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  • |term_start= 1780 |term_end= 1785May 30, 1787 – October 8, 1793 ... From 1780–1785, he was governor of Massachusetts. Hancock's ...
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  • William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English Parliament from 1780 to ...
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  • Since 1780, the Republican Library has been entitled to a copy of all works published in Poland. In modern times the issue is regulated by a ...
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  • met regularly, twice a week, from 1750 to 1780, became the meeting place ... twice a week, from approximately 1750-1780, and it was one of the most ...
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  • From 1780 to 1784, Laplace and famed French chemist Antoine Lavoisier ... the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1780-81 and reported that Laplace ...
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  • the center of empire under Hammurabi (c. 1780 B.C.E. and again under Nebuchadnezzar ... by their sixth ruler, Hammurabi (1780 B.C.E.; dates uncertain). ...
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  • Image:Johann Heinrich Fussli 002.jpg|Belinda's Dream (1780-1790) ... Tiresias appears to Ulysses during the sacrificing (1780-1785) ...
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  • 1795), Euphemia (1774-ca. 1834) and Elizabeth (1780-1814). Despite his relative literary success with accounts of his European travels, Boswell ...
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  • *Lord George Gordon, instigator of the Gordon Riots in 1780, spent ... as a prison through both World Wars. In 1780, the Tower held its only American ...
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  • after Charleston was seized by British forces in 1780. ==Family and ... As the result of an accident in March of 1780, he broke his ankle ...
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  • A conversation which Jacobi held with Gotthold Lessing in 1780 led him to a protracted study of Spinoza's works. What followed was a correspondence ...
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  • Schreber, 1800(= Cebus polykomos Zimmermann, 1780) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Colobus satanas Colobus angolensis Colobus polykomos ...
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  • | binomial_authority = (Zimmermann, 1780) | range_map = Distribution of the Fennec Fox.png | range_map_caption = Range shown in red ...
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  • *Osterley Park, west London (1761-1780) *Paxton House, near Berwick-upon-Tweed (1758) *Portland Place, London (1773) *Pulteney Bridge, Bath (1770) ...
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  • *The Education of Humankind (Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts) (1780) ==Reference== * Albrecht, W. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Wolfgang Albrecht ...
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  • the battle lines during the British siege in 1780.]] In early 1780, Sir Henry Clinton attacked South Carolina, and Charleston ...
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  • location=Washington, D.C.|pages=456|id=ISBN 0-8412-1780-7 primarily in the reduction of carbonyl compounds to alcohols. Another useful method ...
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  • Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth ...
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  • garden were generally made between 1773 and 1780 under the the direction of William Beyer. During the execution, many sculptors were employed ...
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  • the bluffs of the island for Fort Mackinac in 1780. Although the British ... *Fort Mackinac was built in 1780 and was closed as a fort in 1895 ...
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  • eight volumes which appeared between 1761 and 1780. Frederick II offered d’Alembert the presidency of the Berlin Academy in 1764, but he turned down ...
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  • served in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1774-1780. ==American Revolution== At the onset of the war in 1775, Wayne raised a militia and, in 1776 ...
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  • was born in Mitre Lane, Maidstone, in 1778. In 1780, when he was two, his family began a migratory existence that was to last several years. From ...
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  • The inscription reads: Burke 1774–1780. "I wish to be a member ... and caused him to lose his seat in 1780. For the remainder of his ...
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  • an indigenous rebellion that erupted from 1780 to 1781, led by Tupac Amaru ... Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840. Durham, NC: Duke University ...
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  • Price also wrote Essay on the Population of England (2nd ed., 1780) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus; two Fast-day Sermons, published ...
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  • for the rest of the war. In early 1780, he was a member of the court-martial of Major John André. Knox made several other trips to the Northern ...
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  • [[File:George Washington's General Order of March 16, 1780, granting ... relief to Irish immigrants in the city. In 1780, while camped in Morristown ...
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  • He reached England again at the end of 1780 and was able to give further ... |20 March 1776–October 1780||Master||HM Sloop Resolution (12) ...
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  • agent to nabob of Arcot. He entered parliament in 1780, as Member of Parliament for Camelford and continued to sit until his death. In his later years ...
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  • In September 1780, he formulated his scheme, which, if successful ... In July 1780, Arnold sought and obtained command of the fort at West ...
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  • Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Segoyewatha after 1780 ... *Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Segoyewatha after ...
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  • made the amputation of his right leg necessary. In 1780, his long-time business partner Thomas Bentley died, and Wedgwood turned to Erasmus Darwin for ...
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  • Massachusetts' eventual constitution, ratified in 1780 and written ... spent some time in the Netherlands. In July 1780, he had been authorized to ...
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  • 300 px|Former workhouse at Nantwich, dating from 1780.]] The first record of the word workhouse has been dated back to 1631 in a report by the ...
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  • with Mozart and Antonio Salieri. In 1780, he was appointed court librettist to Joseph II, for whom he composed libretti in many different languages ...
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  • Under this ancient Babylonian code (created ca. 1780 B.C.E.), if a couple divorced, the man was obligated to return the dowry, grant his ex-wife custody ...
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  • | genus_authority = Pallas, 1780 | species = G. gulo | binomial = Gulo gulo | binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) | range_map = Leefgebied veelvraat ...
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  • house was burned in the Gordon Riots in 1780, he lived exclusively at Kenwood. ==Earl of Mansfield== In 1776, he was created Earl of Mansfield ...
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  • Fichte was born in Rammenau, Saxony. In 1780, he attended the University of Jena as a student of theology. Fichte was originally a follower of ...
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  • it appears to have been adopted as far back as 1780. For the most powerful black powder "meal" a wood charcoal is used. The best wood ...
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  • It was a systematic and masterly treatise which by 1780 had reached its third edition, and which laid the foundation for the methods of Muzio Clementi ...
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  • 5 years died at Burntwood Hall, February 12, 1780, presumably from wounds received. Monument inside Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire ...
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  • Copley.jpg|left|250px|Self-portrait (1780-1784)]] Besides painting portraits in oil, Copley was a pioneer American pastellist. By the 1760s, he ...
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  • Park Chi-wôn (1737-1895) who went to China in 1780, Hong Tae-yong (1731-1783) who exchanged with Chinese scholars on scientific matters, Yi Tông ...
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  • to file new land claims with Virginia. In 1780, Boone collected about $20 ... into three Virginia counties in November 1780, Boone was promoted to lieutenant ...
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  • present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780.[https://www.royal.uk/william-iv William IV (r. 1830-37)] The Royal Household. Retrieved February 8 ...
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  • from 1778 until 1779, and to the Netherlands in 1780. During this period, he acquired his early education at institutions such as the University of ...
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  • This work was first performed in 1935 at 1780 Glenview, also in Memphis. Williams lived for a time in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana ...
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  • * Archer, Christon I. (ed.). The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2003. ISBN 9780842051262 ...
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  • era. Her painting Peace Bringing Back Abundance (1780) gave her credence as a painter of historical allegory. A friend of Vigee-Le Brun, Jaques ...
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  • the most outstanding was Théophile Marion Dumersan (1780-1849), who began working there in 1795 at the age of sixteen, protected the collection from ...
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  • *Kelsay, Isabel. 1984. Joseph Brant 1743-1780 Man of Two Worlds. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815601824. *Lawson, John. [1718 ...
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  • adapted to the capacities of children (1780), which built on the revolution ... | 26 December 1780 | 1785 | |} ==List of works== This list of works ...
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  • several important satirical works published between 1780 and 1799. In Spanish literature, the Dialogues of Valdés (1528) and those on Painting (1633 ...
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  • Royal Navy frigates of the late eighteenth century were based on the 1780-vintage Perseverance class, which displaced around 900 tons and carried ...
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  • ===Federalist Era: 1780–1815=== and the people ratified it on June 15, 1780. At that time, Adams along ...
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  • faculty began charity medical activities. In 1780, the first general clinic (Allgemeines Kranken-Spital) was established. In the nineteenth century a ...
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  • Bonhomme Richard" by Richard Paton, published 1780.]] With Bonhomme Richard burning and sinking, it is believed her ensign was shot away ...
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  • between the United Provinces and Great Britain (1780–1784), the VOC got into financial trouble, and in 1800, M. C. Rickles, A History of Modern ...
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  • [[Image:1780 Map of West Point Defenses.jpg|thumb|right|West Point ... post in the United States. Between 1778 and 1780, Polish engineer and military ...
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  • #039;s boyhood home in the Battle of Piqua in 1780. Tecumseh was raised by his older brother Cheeseekau (Chiksika), an important war leader whom Tecumseh ...
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  • to 1763, part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1780, and part of Spanish West Florida from 1780 to 1814. Northern and central Alabama was part of ...
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  • Red Jacket (c. 1750 - January 20, 1830), known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe ...
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  • In 1780 the Pawnee are thought to have numbered around 10,000, but by the nineteenth century, epidemics of smallpox and cholera wiped out most ...
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  • by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-1780) and the start of the management ... * 1780 – establishment of the first manufacture * 1783 – Joseph ...
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  • to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. In 1780, the capital was moved to ... of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary ...
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  • (1778-1779) between Prussia and Austria. In 1780 she set up a group designed to defend neutral shipping against Great Britain during the American ...
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  • The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) ...
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  • McDonough, 1780. ==Further reading== * Frank, Joseph Allan, and George ... S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1775-1780. New York: W. W. Norton & ...
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