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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 (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- 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
- returned to Mount Vernon and in 1785-1786 spent a great deal of effort ... since he refused to separate families. In 1786, the earliest completed census ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- In 1786 he married Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Thomas Savage, owner of the Silk Hope Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. They had three children: ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- After the war Cornwallis returned to Britain, and in 1786, he was appointed governor-general and commander in chief in India. He instituted land ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- by the American astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1786. Ritterhouse, however, did not draw any conclusions from his discovery. Fraunhofer published his ...10 KB (1,534 words) - 02:14, 11 August 2022
- Cowper and Mary Unwin moved to Weston in 1786 and shortly before this Cowper became close with his cousin Harriet (Theodora's sister), now ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney ... measures to reduce smuggling and fraud. In 1786, he instituted a sinking fund ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- *Marlborough House, Brighton (1786) *Mellerstain House, Kelso, Scottish Borders (1760-1768) *Mistley Towers *Northumberland House, London, alterations ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- noble Salawat Yulayev, but suffered defeat. In 1786, the Bashkirs achieved tax-free status; and in 1798 Russia formed an irregular Bashkir army from ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- In 1786, in the middle of this period of maturation, Goethe took his ... of the leaf; during his Italian journey (1786-1788), in July of 1787, he ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- for poor children in Old Brentford in 1786. She and two of the ministers ... and adults, such as The Servant’s Friend (1786–1787), which was meant to ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- such as the Paris symphonies (1785–1786) and the original orchestral ... * Symphony No. 82, "The Bear" (1786) * Symphony No. 88 (1787) ...31 KB (4,893 words) - 21:50, 6 May 2024
- (First Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science, 1786) and also in his famous, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason, 1783). ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- him and even inserted in his own words. In 1786, Mrs. Price died. They had ... Correspondence of Richard Price: February 1786–February 1791. Duke University ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786, respectively, in Hanau near Frankfurt in Hesse. They were educated ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- with his only child, his beloved daughter, who in 1786, married the ambassador of Sweden and became Madame de Staël. But neither Necker nor his wife ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- the Gospel. At a ministers' meeting in 1786, Carey raised the question ... *1786 Called to the ministry at Olney, August 10 *1792 Pamphlet "An ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- *John Hancock (November 23, 1785– May 29, 1786) *Nathaniel Gorham (June 6, 1786– November 5, 1786) *Arthur St. Clair ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was published in 1786). Their visit to the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides took place when pacification after the Jacobite ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- at Fort Resolution on the lake’s south shore in 1786. In 1789 Alexander Mackenzie, still in the early stages of his 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- Handel's works were edited by S. Arnold (40 vols., London, 1786), and by F. Chrysander, for the German Händel-Gesellschaft (100 vols., ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- moved to Clay Hall in Old Windsor. On April 3, 1786, they moved again to a new residence on Windsor Road in Slough. He lived the rest of his life in ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- serving aboard the repeating frigate [[HMS Pegasus (1786)|HMS Pegasus]]]] Although Queen Charlotte pressed on all sail, she was not the first ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- A relative of the Chông family Yi Pyôk (1754-1786) is supposed to have introduced the Catholic doctrine to Tasan who was very moved and attended ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- (Arouca) were resettled to Arima between 1784 and 1786. The SRCC was incorporated in 1973 to preserve the culture of the Caribs of Arima and maintain ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- =====Act of 1786===== This Act (26 Geo. III c. 16) enacted the demand of Lord Cornwallis, that the powers of the governor general be enlarged ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- * Sparman, A. 1786. Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. Perth. * Stow, G.W. 1905. Native Races of South Africa. New York * van Reeth, A. 1994. Encyclopedie ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- [[Image:Joseph Brant by Gilbert Stuart 1786.jpg|thumb|right|Joseph ... took a trip to Paris, returning to Canada in June, 1786. ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- The Voyage of Life for Samuel Ward (1786-1839) (father of Julia Ward Howe) who, like Cole's patron, Luman Reed (1787-1836), had a gallery ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- editions in his lifetime, the title was changed in 1786 to The American Spelling Book, and again in 1829 to The Elementary Spelling Book. Most people ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- Seattle (also Sealth, Seathl or See-ahth) (c. 1786 – June 7, 1866), was a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes in what is now the state of Washington ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- with a herdsman, cows and sheep near a pool (circa 1786), considered one of the most beautiful Gainsborough landscapes, was auctioned in 2008 for $5 ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- | years_active = 1786-1843 | module = | website = | portaldisp = ... his other plays. He wrote Philomela in 1786, but it was not published ...31 KB (4,830 words) - 07:40, 12 March 2024
- quarries for the storage of bones was established in 1786, by the order of Monsieur Thiroux de Crosne, Lt. General of Police, and by Monsieur Guillaumot ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- Louis Spohr (1784-1859), Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-1860), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), all of whom were also ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Limestone (renamed Maysville, Kentucky in 1786), then a booming Ohio River ... the Ohio River soon resumed. In September 1786, Boone took part in a military ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- the Great (January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) was a king of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty, reigning from 1740 to 1786. He was one ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- married Elizabeth Kortright on February 16, 1786, at the Trinity Church in New York. ... served in the Continental Congress (1783–1786). As a youthful politician ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- John, (the oldest, having received its charter in 1786 from King George III), Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Montreal.Canada's Cities, [http://www.canadascities ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- century. Jansenism also spread to Italy, where in 1786, the Synod of Pistoia, which was later condemned, propounded extreme Jansenist doctrines. ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- rich in medieval manuscripts and prints. In 1786, he also acquired the collection of the duc de la Vallière, but then sold the entire library ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- Fanny in childbirth; tragically, Fanny died. In 1786 Mary was obliged to close the school because of financial problems that had mounted during her ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- peaceful serenity came over him on Easter Day, 1786. Wilberforce went into the fields to pray when, as he said in a letter to his sister Sally, "amidst ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- India Company was established on the island in 1786. ==Legacy== The fact that Sweden lost its colonies before anti-colonial, freedom movements ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- Russian navigator Gavriil Pribilof’s discovery in 1786) became the primary place where seals were harvested en masse. The Aleuts faired well during ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- * Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford ([http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2060 Full text] at [http://www.gutenberg.org Project ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- Choctaws and the United States between the years of 1786 and 1830. Ferguson writes, "nine treaties were signed during a forty-four-year period, from ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
- *Der Geisterseher (The Ghost-Seer) (unfinished novel) (started in 1786 and published periodically. Published as a book in 1789) *Über die ästhetische ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- arts and law and was apprenticed to his father in 1786. In 1792 he was called to the bar, and in 1799, appointed sheriff depute of the county of Selkirk ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Canada, A History of Freemasonry in Nova Scotia (1786). ==Legacy== [[Image:Johnamacdonaldfuneraltrain.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Macdonald's funeral ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- The Miag-ao Church, built in 1786 by Spanish Augustinian missionaries, had been declared as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Baroque ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- the most prosperous states in Italy. On November 30, 1786, he promulgated a penal reform making Tuscany the first sovereign state to abolish the death ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- painter of his time, Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), William Etty (1787-1849), and Edwin Landseer (1802-73), who first exhibited at the age of twelve ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1784-1786. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 039304758X * Eicher, John H. and David J. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- reign of Frederick II of Prussia (1740–1786). During the nineteenth century ... In the last 23 years of his reign until 1786, Frederick II, who understood ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- | Last eruption = 1786 | Age=~ 593 kyr | First ascent = 1854 by E. D. Pearce and party | Easiest route = rock/ice }} Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- Duke of Normandy in 1785 and Sophie-Béatrix in 1786. Marie Antoinette ... parlement of Paris as judges. On May 31, 1786, the trial resulted in the ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- lustige Abenteuer des Freiherren von Münchhausen 1786 Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737–1823) * Gedichte eines Skalden 1766 ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- seized the Bermuda sloops Friendship and Fanny in 1786. Shortly after, three Bermudian vessels were seized at Grand Caicos, with $35,000 worth of goods ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Born in Woolwich, the son of Major-General Henry William Gordon (1786-1865), by his wife Elizabeth, née Enderby (1792-1873), he was educated ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- the heirs of Lord Fairfax in Hite v. Fairfax (1786), an important Virginia Supreme Court case involving a large tract of land in the Northern Neck ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- worldwide. Science 306 (5702): 1783-1786. *Zardoya, R., and A. Meyer. 1001. On the origin of and phylogenetic relationships among living amphibians ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- wrote to his friend John Francis Mercer in 1786, "I never mean … to ... Washington to John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786.] George Washington Papers ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- * (1786) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Metaphysische ... * Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), trans. J. W ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- * 1740–1786: Frederick II the Great (son of, later also King of Prussia) ... * Frederick II of Prussia (1740–1786) (son of, before King in Prussia) ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- 1832) and especially Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), both of whom closely interacted with Kant, often critically but with respect, while maintaining ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- Nabob of Arcot's Debts, and in the next year (1786) he moved for papers in regard to the Indian government of Warren Hastings, the consequence of ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- (1680-1775), Yechiel Michl of Zlotchov (1721-1786), Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1704-1772), Pinchas of Korets (1728-1790), Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- in three sections in 1784, 1785, and 1786. He showed by general considerations that the mutual action of Jupiter and Saturn could never largely ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- Nonetheless, he graduated in 1786. Norman Hampson, [https://archive ... official records show that on July 25, 1786, Thérèse was married to ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- |1786||Lieutenant||Merchant Vessel Britannia |- |1787||colspan=2 |Returns to Royal Navy |- |16 August 1787||Lieutenant||HMAV Bounty ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- church in 1789. Work on the first book began in 1786 and was subsequently finished and published in 1789. The preface thereto mentions that "this ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Portrait of Robespierre by Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1786)]] Despite their unity in the trial and execution of the King and their political opponents ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 23:01, 28 October 2022
- As of 1564, Yucatan became a captaincy general and from 1786 an intendencia, as a result of the Bourbon Reforms in the administration of the Indies. ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- de La Pérouse, spent 11 hours on the island in 1786. A bay on the north coast has been named after him. The behavior of visiting European sailors ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1786 and published it in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- of a series of cometary apparitions observed in 1786, 1795, 1805, and 1818. He concluded they were same comet and successfully predicted its return ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- |Princess Amelia Sophia||10 July 1711||31 October 1786|| |- |Princess Caroline Elizabeth||21 June 1713||28 December 1757|| |- |Prince George ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729 - 1786), a German philosopher of the Jewish Enlightenment, strove to support and sustain the Jewish faith while advancing ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
