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  • John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...
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  • Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...
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  • height and seeming invulnerability. In 1782, the French, under Admiral ... Admiral Hood. Shortly afterward, in April 1782, he was defeated and taken ...
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  • His career included service at the Continental Congress of 1781-1782; member of the state house of representatives 1778-1780, 1785, and 1786; ...
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  • Hyder Ali or Haidar 'Ali (c. 1722 - 1782), was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. A soldier-adventurer, Haider ...
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  • seven others. All of them were published in 1782 under the title Poems by William ... * John Gilpin, 1782 * The Task, 1785 * Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ...
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  • (Ch'ing) Hsüan-Tsung) (September 16, 1782 – February 25, 1850) was ... The Daoguang Emperor was born Mianning (綿寧) on September 16, 1782 ...
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  • From 1769 until 1782, she was an annual exhibitor at the Academy, ... more than any artist he knew. In 1782 she lost her father, but became ...
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  • Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary ...
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  • Mathews, and sister of Governor John Mathews (1782-1783). They had five children but only their son Daniel survived childhood. Elizabeth died in Philadelphia ...
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  • * Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 * Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 * Boswell: The English ...
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  • elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1782, he met personally with King ... the first of these being published in 1782. He orignally tracked double ...
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  • of the Académie des Sciences, and, in 1782, secretary of the Académie ... title= Seat 39Académie française | years=1782–1794 | ...
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  • Pietro Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his songs ...
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  • known as the Treaty of Salbai, was signed in May 1782, and was ratified by Hastings in June 1782 and by Phadnis in February 1783. The treaty also returned ...
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  • thirteenth century and last carried out in 1782, although not abolished until 1867. ... man was drawn and quartered was in August 1782. The victim, Scottish spy ...
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  • John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...
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  • Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel) (April 21, 1782 ... The Story of Friedrich Froebel, 1782-1852. Autolycus Publications ...
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  • Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...
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  • friend and associate until his premature death in 1782. ... Under the Tory administration of Lord Frederick North (1770 – 1782 ...
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