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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 ...

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 ...

Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that all three ... His third discourse (delivered in 1786 and published in 1788) with ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy ...

Condorcet later wrote Vie de M. Turgot (1786), a biography which spoke ... In 1786, Condorcet worked on ideas for the differential and integral ...

the First Unitarian Church at Boston. In 1786-1787 the family returned to ... Wardle, p. 40. This Hackney College was a short-lived institution ...

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, ...

Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance ...

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. ...

In September 1786, commissioners from five states met in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments to the Articles of Confederation intended ...

In May 1786, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina proposed that Congress ... . access October 6, 2007 On January 21, 1786, the Virginia Legislature ...

as Annona dodecapetala by Lamarck (1786), and has since been named ... * Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de. 1786. Encyclopédie Méthodique Botanique ...

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 ...

| term_end = 17791784–1786 | lieutenant = | predecessor = First GovernorBenjamin ... 1779, an office he held again from 1784-1786. After the Revolution, Henry ...

For the next few years Burns' life was nothing but hardship. ... In the winter of 1786 in Edinburgh Burns met James Johnson, a struggling ...

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 ...

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...

In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of HMS Sirius and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British penal colony ...

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 ...

In 1786 he married Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Thomas Savage, owner of the Silk Hope Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. They had three children: ...

After the war Cornwallis returned to Britain, and in 1786, he was appointed governor-general and commander in chief in India. He instituted land ...

Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war ...

by the American astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1786. Ritterhouse, however, did not draw any conclusions from his discovery. Fraunhofer published his ...

Cowper and Mary Unwin moved to Weston in 1786 and shortly before this Cowper became close with his cousin Harriet (Theodora's sister), now ...

General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney ... measures to reduce smuggling and fraud. In 1786, he instituted a sinking fund ...

*Marlborough House, Brighton (1786) *Mellerstain House, Kelso, Scottish Borders (1760-1768) *Mistley Towers *Northumberland House, London, alterations ...

noble Salawat Yulayev, but suffered defeat. In 1786, the Bashkirs achieved tax-free status; and in 1798 Russia formed an irregular Bashkir army from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...

such as the Paris symphonies (1785–1786) and the original orchestral ... * Symphony No. 82, "The Bear" (1786) * Symphony No. 88 (1787) ...

(First Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science, 1786) and also in his famous, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason, 1783). ...

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 ...

Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786, respectively, in Hanau near Frankfurt in Hesse. They were educated ...

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 ...

the Gospel. At a ministers' meeting in 1786, Carey raised the question ... *1786 Called to the ministry at Olney, August 10 *1792 Pamphlet "An ...

*John Hancock (November 23, 1785– May 29, 1786) *Nathaniel Gorham (June 6, 1786– November 5, 1786) *Arthur St. Clair ...

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 ...

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 ...

Handel's works were edited by S. Arnold (40 vols., London, 1786), and by F. Chrysander, for the German Händel-Gesellschaft (100 vols., ...

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 ...

serving aboard the repeating frigate [[HMS Pegasus (1786)|HMS Pegasus]]]] Although Queen Charlotte pressed on all sail, she was not the first ...

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 ...

(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 ...

=====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 ...

* 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 ...

[[Image:Joseph Brant by Gilbert Stuart 1786.jpg|thumb|right|Joseph ... took a trip to Paris, returning to Canada in June, 1786. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

| years_active = 1786-1843 | module = | website = | portaldisp = ... his other plays. He wrote Philomela in 1786, but it was not published ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John, (the oldest, having received its charter in 1786 from King George III), Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Montreal.Canada's Cities, [http://www.canadascities ...

century. Jansenism also spread to Italy, where in 1786, the Synod of Pistoia, which was later condemned, propounded extreme Jansenist doctrines. ...

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 ...

Fanny in childbirth; tragically, Fanny died. In 1786 Mary was obliged to close the school because of financial problems that had mounted during her ...

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 ...

India Company was established on the island in 1786. ==Legacy== The fact that Sweden lost its colonies before anti-colonial, freedom movements ...

Russian navigator Gavriil Pribilof’s discovery in 1786) became the primary place where seals were harvested en masse. The Aleuts faired well during ...

* Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford ([http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2060 Full text] at [http://www.gutenberg.org Project ...

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 ...

*Der Geisterseher (The Ghost-Seer) (unfinished novel) (started in 1786 and published periodically. Published as a book in 1789) *Über die ästhetische ...

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 ...

Canada, A History of Freemasonry in Nova Scotia (1786). ==Legacy== [[Image:Johnamacdonaldfuneraltrain.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Macdonald's funeral ...

The Miag-ao Church, built in 1786 by Spanish Augustinian missionaries, had been declared as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Baroque ...

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 ...

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 ...

David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 1784-1786. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 039304758X * Eicher, John H. and David J. ...

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 ...

| 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 ...

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 ...

lustige Abenteuer des Freiherren von Münchhausen 1786 Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737–1823) * Gedichte eines Skalden 1766 ...

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 ...

Born in Woolwich, the son of Major-General Henry William Gordon (1786-1865), by his wife Elizabeth, née Enderby (1792-1873), he was educated ...

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 ...

worldwide. Science 306 (5702): 1783-1786. *Zardoya, R., and A. Meyer. 1001. On the origin of and phylogenetic relationships among living amphibians ...

wrote to his friend John Francis Mercer in 1786, "I never mean … to ... Washington to John F. Mercer, September 9, 1786.] George Washington Papers ...

* (1786) Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Metaphysische ... * Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), trans. J. W ...

* 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) ...

1832) and especially Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), both of whom closely interacted with Kant, often critically but with respect, while maintaining ...

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 ...

(1680-1775), Yechiel Michl of Zlotchov (1721-1786), Dov Ber of Mezeritch (1704-1772), Pinchas of Korets (1728-1790), Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl ...

in three sections in 1784, 1785, and 1786. He showed by general considerations that the mutual action of Jupiter and Saturn could never largely ...

Nonetheless, he graduated in 1786. Norman Hampson, [https://archive ... official records show that on July 25, 1786, Thérèse was married to ...

|1786||Lieutenant||Merchant Vessel Britannia |- |1787||colspan=2 |Returns to Royal Navy |- |16 August 1787||Lieutenant||HMAV Bounty ...

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 ...

Portrait of Robespierre by Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1786)]] Despite their unity in the trial and execution of the King and their political opponents ...

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. ...

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 ...

made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1786 and published it in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government ...

of a series of cometary apparitions observed in 1786, 1795, 1805, and 1818. He concluded they were same comet and successfully predicted its return ...

|Princess Amelia Sophia||10 July 1711||31 October 1786||  |- |Princess Caroline Elizabeth||21 June 1713||28 December 1757||  |- |Prince George ...

Moses Mendelssohn (1729 - 1786), a German philosopher of the Jewish Enlightenment, strove to support and sustain the Jewish faith while advancing ...

book Gum-Elastica. Meanwhile, Thomas Hancock (1786-1865), a scientist and engineer, patented the process in the UK on November 21, 1843, eight weeks ...

Benjamin Rush to Richard Price], October 27, 1786. The Founders' Constitution web edition. Retrieved October 31, 2023. However, compromise ...

Portrait of Robespierre by Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1786)]] Robespierre completed his law studies with distinction and was admitted to the bar ...

(평양 - now the capital of North Korea) In 1786, Yi proceeded to establish a hierarchy of lay-priests. Although the Vatican later ruled (in ...

uprising in the western half of the state from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites (or "Regulators"), were ...

Brown, Jr., who was a member of the class of 1786 and contributed $5,000 (which, adjusted for inflation, is approximately $61,000 in 2005, though it ...

She accepted the post in 1786. She developed a warm relationship with the queen and princesses that lasted into her later years, yet her anxieties ...

Frederick the Great of Prussia (ruling 1740-1786), too, maintained the ideals of the Enlightenment, although he still permitted the practice ...

Rico was written by Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra in 1786, 293 years after the first Spaniards arrived on the island. The first indigenous settlers ...

Beatson's Political Index of 1786 gives the list of Prime Ministers and Favorites from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Present Time. ...

the island before settling upon Penang in 1786, the Riau Archipelago was an attractive choice just to the south of the Malay Peninsula, for its ...

were also opened in New York 1771, Philadelphia 1786, and Boston 1796. Michael Marks Davis and Andrew Robert Warner, Dispensaries, Their Management ...

in 1785 and a Captain the following year. In 1786 he was stationed in the West Indies under Horatio Nelson, who wrote of William, "In his professional ...

female who attempted the life of the king in 1786,"] Oxford, UK: J. Munday, 1810, 11-17. Retrieved June 28, 2022. Alphonse de Lamartine devoted ...

attended the Annapolis Convention as a delegate in 1786, and drafted its resolution for a Constitutional Convention. He also served in the New ...

of Quito. Although it hasn't erupted since 1786, it is the only mountain or volcano on earth that lies directly on the equator and has a permanent ...

The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on October 21, 1805, was part of the War of the Third ...

the Great (Frederick II of Prussia 1740 - 1786) is frequently cited as one ... Frederick the Great (1712–1786) expanded Prussia from obscurity ...

II, known as Frederick the Great (1740-1786) came to power, and Berlin became a center of the Enlightenment. Following France's victory ...

St Stephen's Cathedral; it was here, in 1786, that Mozart composed the opera Le nozze di Figaro. ===Mozart and Prague=== Mozart had a special ...

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire to John Dickens (1786–1851), a naval pay clerk, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens neé Barrow (1789–1863 ...

039;) is thought to have been first used in 1785 or 1786 by Ambrosius, the Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav or his predecessor, Nikifor (Nikephoros Theotokis ...

abolition in modern times. On November 30, 1786, after having de facto blocked capital executions (the last was in 1769), Leopold promulgated ...

On September 1786, commissioners from five states met in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments to the Articles of Confederation that ...

of his mind” and, sometime after she died in 1786, he recalled her imparting an avid "taste for books which is still the pleasure and glory ...

from 1776 to 1779, and again from 1784 to 1786. In 1780, the capital was moved to Richmond at the urging of then-Governor Thomas Jefferson, who ...

their shared humanity and common bonds. In 1786, Hammon gave his well-known Address to the Negroes of the State of New York. Hammon wrote the ...

Scherer (1703-1778) and Prudent Thieriot (1732-1786). ===Modern history=== Increasing demands on the capabilities of instruments and players ...

English politician and businessman Henry Drummond (1786-1860) and the American merchant David Nevins Lord (1792-1880) spread premillennialism. ...

* Giovanni Battista Guadagnini of Piacenza (1711-1786) * Jacob Stainer (1617-1683) of Absam in Tyrol Significant changes occurred in the construction ...

year or more on South Georgia Island, beginning in 1786. During the whaling era, which lasted until 1966, the population of that island varied from over ...

for their service in the Revolution. From 1786 through 1797 several groups of wealthy land speculators entered into agreements with one another ...

After a preliminary trip to Berlin in early 1786, he was dispatched that July on a mission to the royal court of Prussia. Upon his return in ...

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786), which was the basis of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution ...

of a slave ship from Thomas Clarkson's 1786 "Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of Human Species"]] The transatlantic slave trade ...

The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. His defeat put a final end to his rule as Emperor ...

*Lady Harriet Pitt (bef. 1770-1786), who married The Hon. Edward James Eliot, oldest son of the 1st Baron Eliot, in 1785; one child. ...

Vermont, 1777. This constitution was amended in 1786, and again in 1793 following Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791.]] ...

, 1786–1855), who is best known for his romantic adventure story Phra Aphai Mani and nine travel pieces called Nirats. Kings Rama V and Rama ...

Abraham Lincoln, who had been scalped in 1786 in an Indian raid. He had no middle name. Lincoln's parents were uneducated, illiterate farmers ...

separate their merits from their defects." In 1786 Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote in his 13th Discourse "...in the buildings of Vanbrugh, who was ...

potting and stamping (for which a patent expired in 1786) or puddling (patented by Henry Cort in 1783 and 1784). These represent three "leading ...

and Puck with Fairies Dancing. William Blake. c.1786.jpg|thumb|250px| Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. By William Blake, c. 1786. Tate ...

and took up his new duties in January 1786, at the age of 16.McLynn, 31. Napoleon served on garrison duty in Valence and Auxonne until after ...

Foundations of Natural Science (1786) that a scientific psychology "properly speaking" is impossible. Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 ...

Society in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on February 2, 1786, said: The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more ...

Founded in 1786 as the site of South Carolina's new capital city, it was one of the first planned cities in the U.S. From its beginnings ...

areas. All parish cemeteries were abolished from 1786, and their contents were taken to abandoned limestone mines outside the southern gates of Paris ...

from Prussia's Frederick II (1712-1786) when she became head of the House of Habsburg in 1740. In 1741, she appeared before the Diet of ...

Meikle's developed a threshing machine in 1786 and in the 1850s and 1860s John Fowler, an agricultural engineer and inventor, produced a steam ...