Search results for "1759" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • of the usual classical subjects. Then in 1759, something untoward happened ... into some support from France. In Parma in 1759, he found a number of significant ...
    8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
  • Carl Heinrich Graun (May 7, 1704 - August 8, 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to ...
    2 KB (357 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
  • Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an early American inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol ...
    12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
  • *Dumfries House, Ayrshire (1754-1759) *Edinburgh University Old College ... *Harewood House, West Yorkshire (1759-1771) *Hopetoun House, West Lothian ...
    10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
  • a plantation house on the Potomac River, in 1759. He and his wife had twelve ... House of Burgesses elected Mason in 1759. Mason powerful writing style ...
    8 KB (1,220 words) - 07:53, 11 November 2022
  • Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). because of his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) where he emphasized the important ...
    16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
  • taieb.net/auteurs/Quesnay/Qimages/1759.jpg Tableau Economique] shows ... created are the same (Quesnay 1758, 1759). ==Critique== ...
    15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
  • first volumes of which were published in 1759. Sterne was at work on his ... Shandy was the satire, A Political Romance (1759), aimed at conflicts of interest ...
    13 KB (1,975 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
  • 1759 saw some severe Prussian defeats. At the Battle of Kay, or Paltzig ... The French planned to invade the British Isles during 1759 by accumulating ...
    29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
  • married Colonel George Washington on January 6, 1759. Washington had been commander of the First Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian War and had ...
    10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:57, 6 December 2023
  • George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a leading composer of Baroque concerti grossi, operas, and oratorios. Born ...
    12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
  • *Philotas (1759) *Fables (Fabeln) (1759) *Laokoon oder Ueber die Grenzen der Malerei ...
    10 KB (1,613 words) - 06:09, 31 December 2022
  • of composition." Then Porpora returned in 1759 to Naples. From this time Porpora's career was a series of misfortunes: His florid style ...
    5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
  • Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758. In 1759, the Battle of the Plains ... British public long after Wolfe's death in 1759. The European ...
    30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
  • doctrine was François Quesnay's (1759 - 1766) axiom that only agriculture ... a Frenchman named Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) is reputed to have asked ...
    22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
  • becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute. In 1759, Ferguson became professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1764 ...
    6 KB (883 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
  • *La Cythère assiégée, Vienna, (early 1759) *Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphose (1759) ...
    14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (July 19, 1759 – January 2, 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор ...
    6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
  • Margaret and Mary, Holding a Cat, (about 1759). ===Return to Suffolk=== ... In 1759 he moved his family to Bath. The commissions came quickly ...
    17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
  • and lighter than the Rambler essays. In 1759, Johnson published his satirical ... * The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) * The Plays of ...
    12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)