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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • were Veronica (1773-1795), Euphemia (1774-ca. 1834) and Elizabeth (1780 ... * Boswell for the Defence, 1769-1774 * Boswell: the Ominous Years, 1774-1776 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 – March 21, 1843) was an English poet and writer of the Romantic school. Southey was intimately linked to all ...
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  • Continental Congress and its President in 1774, Arthur also became a political ... and attending the provincial conventions in 1774 and 1775. ...
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  • From 1765 to 1774, he focused on science. In 1765, he published his ... General of Finance under Louis XVI (in 1774). Condorcet was recognized ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is an example of the author ... * Prometheus 1772–1774 * Götz von Berlichingen (Drama) 1773 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * Catherine Wedgwood (1774–1823) * Sarah Wedgwood (1776–1856) ... in his paperwork and stationery. In 1774 the Empress Catherine of Russia ...
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  • *Register House, Edinburgh (1774-1789) *Saltram House, Plymouth, Devon ... *Stowe, Buckinghamshire (1774) *Syon House interior, Brentford (1762-1769) ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • smallpox in humans, including Benjamin Jestey in 1774 and the German teacher Peter Plett in 1791 (Plett 2006). Two decades before Jenner's inoculation ...
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  • legislature met in Salem on June 17, 1774, Adams locked the doors and ... Intolerable Acts, and adopted in September 1774. Whose "spirited" ...
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  • and served in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1774-1780. ==American Revolution== At the onset of the war in 1775, Wayne raised a militia and, ...
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  • John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was born in Leominster ... John Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26 ...
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  • Congress, which met briefly during 1774. The second Congress managed ... ed.), Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 2:44–48. Retrieved ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • === Tegbessou, 1732-1774 === Tegbessou was the sixth King of Dahomey, ruling from 1740 to 1774 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1774 *This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity (1774) ...
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  • François Quesnay (June 4, 1694 – December 16, 1774) was a French ... Quesnay died on December 16, 1774, in Versailles, France. ...
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  • Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730? – April 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English writers of the eighteenth ...
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  • to add to the collection. During 1773 and 1774, Diderot made a difficult ... * Eléments de physiologie (1773-1774) * Réfutation d'Helvétius ...
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  • Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a nineteenth-century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be ...
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  • In 1774, Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's richest planters ... 1774. 'Diary of John Adams, Volume 2: Monday. Octr. 24. Founding ...
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  • of Excise,” his first political work. In 1774 his petition failed, and Paine ... Paine arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November 1774, carrying ...
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  • From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ... Copley's American years, 1738-1774 an Interpretative History ...
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  • documents for several political events. In 1774 Mason helped George Washington draw up the Fairfax Resolves, in response to Great Britain's ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • committed had been briefly suppressed from 1774-1778, and finally abolished ... in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, the Inquisition brought to ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...
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  • , Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. [http://memory.loc ... Continental and Confederation Congresses, 1774-1789," 76-108, in Inventing ...
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  • His only son, Charles, Viscount Brome, (b. 1774), succeeded as 2nd Marquess Cornwallis. He married Lady Louisa Gordon, daughter of the 4th Duke ...
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  • Patriot, element among the colonists. On July 20, 1774 ... In August 1774, Greene helped organize a local militia, which was ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of Orenburg, and it lasted for six years. In 1774 Bashkiria supported Pugachev's rebellion. Yemelyan Pugachev was a Cossack who declared himself ...
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  • market for still-life painting. Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), eldest son of Revolutionary era painter Charles Willson Peale, was the first American still ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Russian patrons. The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774) gave Russia the right to make "representations" to the Sultan in defense of his Orthodox ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of German letters, Die Gelehrtenrepublik (1774). In 1775 he travelled south, making the acquaintance of Goethe on the way, and spending a year ...
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  • In 1774 he was elected member for Bristol, "England's second ... *On American Taxation (1774): "Whether you were right or wrong ...
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  • by the work of Johann Gottfried Herder (1774-1803) and Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788). Bastian learned the languages and religious rituals of ...
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  • England and Germany (Sevel, Jensen, Jesty 1774, Rendall, Plett 1791) who ... In 1774, during a smallpox epidemic, Dorset farmer, Benjamin Jesty ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , 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 ...
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  • meaning "heavy") was first identified in 1774 by Carl Scheele and extracted in 1808 by Sir Humphry Davy in England. The oxide was initially ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * "The Patriot" (1774) ===Poetry=== * London (1738) * "Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane" (1747) ...
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  • * Anderson, M.S. 1991. The Eastern Question, 1774-1923: A Study in International Relations. Houndmills, UK: Macmillan Education. ISBN 9780333037812. ...
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  • and opened their own upholstery business in 1774. Competition was stiff and business slow. Ross and John attended Christ Church and their pew ...
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  • (called "Patsy"), Jane Randolph (1774-1775), a stillborn or unnamed ... ==Political career from 1774 to 1800== [[Image:Jefferson.jpg|thumb ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who observed the greenish-yellow gas when experimenting with seawater ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Virginia and Kentucky. In the summer of 1774, Boone volunteered to travel ... believed Henderson did not hire Boone until 1774. For doubts that Henderson ...
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  • Johan Gottlieb Gahn, isolated the pure element in 1774 by reduction of the dioxide with carbon. Around the beginning of the nineteenth century ...
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  • Forbes, An Account of the Chapel of Rosslyn (1774). [[Image:Rosslyn Chapel Princes Pillar 1778.jpg|thumb|right|1778 drawing of the inscription.]] ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • England was officially opened on November 1, 1774, and is still going strong today. The Arcade in Providence, Rhode Island introduced the concept to ...
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  • noted. Mandatory education was introduced in 1774; the goal was to form an educated class from which civil servants could be recruited. ...
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  • its role in the Balkans. Beginning in 1774, Russia protected Orthodox Christian within the Balkans had been recognized by the Ottomans. The volunteers ...
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  • * Pointer, Margaret. Niue 1774 1974: 200 Years of Conflict and Change. Otago University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1877578953 * Pule, John, and Nicholas ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Otis Sr. (1702-1778) and Mary Allyne Otis (1702-1774) in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Her mother was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Doty ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the 1774 Continental Congress, and first governor of the state of Virginia. Henry is remembered ...
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  • was the raid on Fort William and Mary, December 14, 1774 in Portsmouth Harbor, which netted the rebellion sizable quantities of gunpowder, small arms ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The original Building Society was formed in the United Kingdom in 1774. Most of the original societies were fully "terminating," meaning ...
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  • Louis XVI’s ascension to the throne in 1774, Marie-Antoinette ordered ... Marie-Antoinette moved into these rooms in 1774, a complete reorganization ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In 1774, Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the war against Spain. While with the Portuguese, Phillip conveyed a fleet ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • less formal dances, particularly the jig. One 1774 account states that: Betwixt the country dances they have what I call everlasting Jigs. A couple ...
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  • Europeans began to encroach on the island in 1774, when rumors of Russian fur traders harvesting sea otters for valuable pelts caused the Spanish ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Système social (1773), Politique naturelle (1773-1774), and Morale universelle (1776), but these later writings were not as popular or influential as ...
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  • #039;s sons at Bowood House near Calne in 1774, he discovered a gas that French scientist Antoine Lavoisier would later name oxygen. Priestley ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • had already abolished it before statehood (1774). The first state to abolish ... html "Thoughts Upon Slavery"] 1774. Retrieved March 16, 2018. ...
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  • #039;s War at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. In the American Revolutionary War, many Shawnee villages were destroyed by American frontiersmen ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Commons representing Liskeard, Cornwall, in 1774, but became a "mute" ... & Co., 1956. vol.1: 1750-1773; vol.2: 1774-1784; vol.3: 1784-1794. ...
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  • *Hills, Richard L. James Watt, His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774 (Vol 1). Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 978-1843060451 *Marsden, Ben. Watt ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Building on this discovery, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and Félix Savart (1791-1841) established that a current-carrying wire exerts a magnetic force ...
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  • traveled into Quechan territory in the winter of 1774, marking the beginning of continuous interaction. Today, Yuman tribes live on reservations ...
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  • Turkish War, against the Ottoman Empire (1768-1774), which saw some of the greatest defeats in Turkish history, including the Battle of Chesma and the ...
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  • Plassey in 1762. Clive later committed suicide in 1774, after being addicted to opium. ===Terms of agreement=== These were the terms agreed between ...
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  • | consortreign =May 10, 1774 – September 21, 1792 | spouse =Louis XVI ... suddenly on the afternoon of May 10, 1774, when King Louis XV died of ...
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  • Turks, but the Bermudians refused to pay it. In 1774, the Bahamians passed another, similar act, and this they submitted for the Crown's assent ...
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  • In 1774, Rutledge was sent to the First Continental Congress. It is not known for certain exactly what John Rutledge contributed during this ...
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  • such as the Macclesfield Grammar School Act 1774 and the Bolton Grammar School Act 1788, but most could not. Such a dispute between the trustees ...
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  • Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt. In May of 1774, his most successful novel, Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams was published ...
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  • discovery by Joseph Priestley on August 1, 1774. Priestley published his discovery in 1775, and Scheele, in 1777; consequently, Priestley is ...
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  • Seabury, Letters of a Westchester Farmer, 1774–1775 (1970), p 61. ... Walker and others, during the winter of 1774–75. They won many inhabitants ...
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  • In 1774, the Quebec Act restored the land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River to Quebec, appeasing the French-speaking ...
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  • studying with different teachers. From about 1774, he started to teach himself. With the initial approval of Nafata the ruler of Gobir, he was allowed ...
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  • and Population Behavior in Liaoning, 1774-1873. Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time, 31. New York: Cambridge University ...
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  • Indians escalated into Dunmore's War in 1774. British diplomats managed to isolate the Shawnees during the conflict: the Iroquois and the Delawares ...
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  • delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, he sided with those who wanted conciliation with Parliament. == Roles in the American Revolution == ...
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  • In 1774, the English had founded a village called Stillwater, just below "Indian Old Town" at the site of a falls. Relations between ...
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  • American Methodist Conference was held in 1774 with membership less than ... Wesley wrote his Thoughts Upon Slavery in 1774. John Wesley, [http://docsouth ...
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  • to starve himself to death. Finally, in 1774, David won the Prix de Rome. Normally, he would have had to attend another school before attending ...
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  • describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774, "erosion" was used outside of medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the ...
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  • also given as Wakunchakookah, born in 1774) was a chief of the Ho-Chunk tribe. Historians state that he and his fellow chiefs were persuaded ...
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  • the area, published his Description of Patagonia in 1774. The expeditions of the HMS Adventure (1826-1830) and the HMS Beagle (1832-1836) under ...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) assisted Laplace in revising the manuscript for the press. Biot tells an interesting story. In 1803 he requested ...
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  • The British explorer James Cook sighted Grande Terre in 1774 and named it “New Caledonia” after the Scottish Highlands, because the purple ...
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  • An early German influence came from Goethe, whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout Europe emulating its protagonist ...
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  • gave way to anti-British sentiment. The passage in 1774 of the Quebec Act, which guaranteed French Canadians free practice of Catholicism in the Province ...
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  • Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. ME 1:209, Papers 1:134. [http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0100.htm Inalienable ...
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  • Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August 31 1880 – November 28 1962) was queen regnant of the Netherlands from ...
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  • * Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) * Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) * Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) * Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) ...
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  • explorer Captain James Cook stopped briefly in 1774, and a French admiral and explorer, Comte de La Pérouse, spent 11 hours on the island in 1786. A ...
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  • avert conflict in Quebec, the Quebec Act of 1774 expanded Quebec's territory ... ca/en/article/quebec-act Quebec Act, 1774]. The Canadian Encyclopedia ...
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  • Part of the Quebec Act of 1774 gave French Canadians continued use of their French civil law and recognized the Roman Catholic Church with the ...
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  • William Buckland's The Hammond-Harwood House (1774) in Annapolis, Maryland, and Thomas Jefferson's first Monticello. The design source for ...
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  • this was achieved with the Quebec Act of 1774. The history of the Seven Years' War, particularly the siege of Québec and the death of British ...
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  • *On the motion of the nodes of a planet's orbit, 1774. *On the stability of the planetary orbits, 1776. *Two papers in which the method of ...
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  • Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1742 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution. Brant ...
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  • 1999, ISBN 0295978376) Mean population decline 1774–1874 was about 66 percent. Lange, 2003. [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id ...
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  • Juliana (Juliana Emma Louise Marie Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau) (April 30, 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the ...
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  • In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec (as the colony was now called) would side with the rebels of the thirteen colonies ...
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  • United States were to convene in Philadelphia in 1774, 12 colonies sent representatives to the First Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress ...
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  • Yellow Thunder (Ho-chunk name Wahkanjahzeegah, born in 1774) was a chief of the Ho-Chunk Winnebago tribe. Historians state that he and his fellow ...
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  • In 1773 or 1774, Thomas Paine visited Franklin in England and enthusiastically discussed his book manuscript critical of many religious doctrines ...
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  • Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774); Doktor Faustus (1947), a deep meditation on the nature of art and morality, told through the ...
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  • *1774: The anatomical text Kaitai shinsho, the first complete Japanese translation of a Western medical work, is published by Sugita Gempaku ...
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  • === Massachusetts, 1774–1776 === [[Image:American Revolution Campaigns ... Massachusetts by the British parliament in 1774. However, popular resistance ...
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  • Gaseous ammonia was first isolated in 1774 by Joseph Priestley, who called it alkaline air. Lyndy Abraham. Marvell and alchemy. (Aldershot Scolar ...
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  • as Lieutenant Governor of Yapeyú beginning in 1774. In 1781, the family moved to Buenos Aires. == Spain == In 1785, his father was transferred ...
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  • Watt. 3 vol Vol. 1, His time in Scotland, 1736-1774. Landmark Publishing Ltd, ISBN 1843060450; Vol. 2, The Years of Toil, 1775-1784. ISBN 1843060469; ...
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  • In May 1774, Barbauld married Rochemont Barbauld, the grandson of a French Hugenot and a former pupil at Warrington, despite some "misgivings ...
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  • The first time flamenco is mentioned in literature is in 1774 in the book Cartas Marruecas by José Cadalso. During this period, according to ...
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  • Maria Theresa of Austria, last Queen of France (1774-1792) *Maria Theresia, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of Bohemia ...
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  • The reign of Umma-Khan (1774-1801) marked the zenith of the Avar ascendancy in the Caucasus. Among the potentates who paid tribute to Umma-Khan ...
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  • Spanish eyes: The Spanish voyages to Alaska, 1774-1792. Heritage Research. ISBN 978-0965900911 *Salisbury, O.M. 1962. The Customs and Legends ...
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  • This was first expressed by François Quesnay (1694-1774) in his Tableau Économique (1759). Quesnay argued that agricultural surpluses, by flowing through ...
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  • Methodism arrived in Jersey in 1774, brought by fishermen returning from Newfoundland. Conflict with the authorities ensued when men refused ...
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  • Dagestan and Chechnya. The reign of Umma-Khan (1774-1801) marked the zenith of the Avar ascendancy in the Caucasus. ===Caucasian wars=== ...
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  • Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present] * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pdio5.html List of Senators who died in office ...
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  • ==American Revolution, 1774–1783== [[Image:Washington Crossing the ... In 1774 Washington was chosen as a delegate from Virginia to the First ...
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  • was claimed for Britain when Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) proved New Holland and New South Wales to be a single land mass by completing a circumnavigation ...
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  • the Brahmo Samaj, was founded by Ram Mohum Roy (1774 – 1833), the first Brahmin to travel to England, where he died. This movement stresses the ...
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  • of its most significant discoveries. Charles Bell (1774-1843) and François Magendie (1783-1855) independently discovered the distinction between sensory ...
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  • Louis XV (reigned 1715-1774) sought escape in pleasure, discredited the monarchy, and was so unpopular that his body was buried secretly. His ...
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  • * Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005 ... Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present] ...
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  • Tibetan lamas who finally expelled them in 1745. In 1774, a Scottish nobleman George Bogle investigating trade for the British East India Company, introduced ...
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  • von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). The hero can not integrate into the new conformist society, ultimately committing suicide ...
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