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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that all three ... His third discourse (delivered in 1786 and published in 1788) with ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy ...
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  • Condorcet later wrote Vie de M. Turgot (1786), a biography which spoke ... In 1786, Condorcet worked on ideas for the differential and integral ...
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  • the First Unitarian Church at Boston. In 1786-1787 the family returned to ... Wardle, p. 40. This Hackney College was a short-lived institution ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • In September 1786, commissioners from five states met in the Annapolis Convention to discuss adjustments to the Articles of Confederation intended ...
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  • In May 1786, Charles Pinckney of South Carolina proposed that Congress ... . access October 6, 2007 On January 21, 1786, the Virginia Legislature ...
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  • as Annona dodecapetala by Lamarck (1786), and has since been named ... * Lamarck, J. B. P. A. de. 1786. Encyclopédie Méthodique Botanique ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • | term_end = 17791784–1786 | lieutenant = | predecessor = First GovernorBenjamin ... 1779, an office he held again from 1784-1786. After the Revolution, Henry ...
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  • For the next few years Burns' life was nothing but hardship. ... In the winter of 1786 in Edinburgh Burns met James Johnson, a struggling ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...
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  • In October 1786, Phillip was appointed captain of HMS Sirius and named Governor-designate of New South Wales, the proposed British penal colony ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In 1786 he married Elizabeth Savage, daughter of Thomas Savage, owner of the Silk Hope Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. They had three children: ...
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  • After the war Cornwallis returned to Britain, and in 1786, he was appointed governor-general and commander in chief in India. He instituted land ...
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  • Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war ...
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  • by the American astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1786. Ritterhouse, however, did not draw any conclusions from his discovery. Fraunhofer published his ...
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  • Cowper and Mary Unwin moved to Weston in 1786 and shortly before this Cowper became close with his cousin Harriet (Theodora's sister), now ...
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  • General's authority were made in 1786, presumably by Lord Sydney ... measures to reduce smuggling and fraud. In 1786, he instituted a sinking fund ...
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  • *Marlborough House, Brighton (1786) *Mellerstain House, Kelso, Scottish Borders (1760-1768) *Mistley Towers *Northumberland House, London, alterations ...
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  • noble Salawat Yulayev, but suffered defeat. In 1786, the Bashkirs achieved tax-free status; and in 1798 Russia formed an irregular Bashkir army from ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...
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  • such as the Paris symphonies (1785–1786) and the original orchestral ... * Symphony No. 82, "The Bear" (1786) * Symphony No. 88 (1787) ...
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  • (First Metaphysical Principles of Natural Science, 1786) and also in his famous, Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason, 1783). ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786, respectively, in Hanau near Frankfurt in Hesse. They were educated ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the Gospel. At a ministers' meeting in 1786, Carey raised the question ... *1786 Called to the ministry at Olney, August 10 *1792 Pamphlet "An ...
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  • *John Hancock (November 23, 1785– May 29, 1786) *Nathaniel Gorham (June 6, 1786– November 5, 1786) *Arthur St. Clair ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Handel's works were edited by S. Arnold (40 vols., London, 1786), and by F. Chrysander, for the German Händel-Gesellschaft (100 vols., ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • serving aboard the repeating frigate [[HMS Pegasus (1786)|HMS Pegasus]]]] Although Queen Charlotte pressed on all sail, she was not the first ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • =====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 ...
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  • * 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 ...
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  • [[Image:Joseph Brant by Gilbert Stuart 1786.jpg|thumb|right|Joseph ... took a trip to Paris, returning to Canada in June, 1786. ...
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  • 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 ...
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