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- fell out with his congregation and came to London in 1782, where his friends encouraged him to earn his living at writing. === Early Writing === ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- * Aux insurgents d'Amérique (1782) * Salons ==References== *Bremner, G. Order and Change: The Pattern of Diderot’s Thought. Cambridge: ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- The French captured the colony in 1782 and developed this town, making it their capital city, La Nouvelle Ville. To guard against the dangers ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- Murillo (about 1650), bought by Louis XVI about 1782; Bathsheba at Her Bath, Rembrandt (1654); and Ex Voto, Philippe de Champaigne (1662), seized in ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- * Muling for Emperor Daoguang (1782-1850, the 6th emperor) * Chongling for Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908, the 9th emperor) The Western Qing tombs ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1782.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1782]. Retrieved March 21, 2023. In certain situations ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- half-sisters. Martha Jefferson died in 1782, leaving the Hemings family to her husband, Thomas. The Hemings family was at the top of the slave ...27 KB (3,996 words) - 01:50, 23 December 2022
- (1350 – 1767), the Taksin Kingdom (1768 – 1782, also known as the Thonburi Kingdom) and the Chakri Kingdom (1782-present). [http://www.thailandsworld ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- offices in the short-lived ministries of 1782 and 1783. He was under-secretary for foreign affairs in the Rockingham ministry, and a secretary ...24 KB (3,861 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- 175px|Peter Spencer, born a slave in Maryland in 1782, founded the first independent black Christian Church in Delaware in 1813, the A.U.M.P. Church.]] ...25 KB (3,617 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2024
- used today. It was coined by Volta in 1782 (derived from the Italian condensatore), with reference to the device's ability to store a higher ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- *The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782-1865 (1949) *A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 (1950) with Alister Kershaw ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- its name by Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman in 1782. He chose "ammonia" because he had obtained "the gas … from sal ammoniac, salt ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- fell to Spanish forces under General Galvez in 1782. After the American Revolution, the British government issued land grants to a group of British ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- by George Washington on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed to recognize "any singularly meritorious action ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- William Miller (1782-1849), a Baptist who inspired the Seventh Day Adventist movement, had predicted Jesus' return for the year 1843. He ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- criminal judge for the diocese of Arras in March 1782. Though his sister claimed that he immediately resigned to avoid sentencing anyone to death, this ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Its national significance dates back to June 20 1782, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the current design for the Great Seal ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- *1782: Der Erlkönig (The Alder King) *1790: Römische Elegien (Roman Elegies) *1794: Reineke Fuchs *1797: Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- *The Faculty of Medicine, including the Medical School (1782) and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (1867). *Harvard Divinity School (1816) ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- tried to help the younger composer. During the years 1782 to 1785, Mozart wrote a set of string quartets thought to be inspired by Haydn's Opus 33 ...31 KB (4,893 words) - 21:50, 6 May 2024
- *The Nok Kaeo Version (1782) *CS 1145 Version (1783) *Sanggitiyavamsa--Pali chronicle compiled by Phra Phonnarat, generally discussing Buddhism ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- in France. Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854) argued that true certitude comes not from individual reason but from the universal consent ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- *KG: Knight of the Garter, 1782 ===Arms=== His arms were those of his two kingdoms, the United Kingdom and Hanover, superimposed:- Quarterly, ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- continued by John Sell Cotman, of Norfolk, 1782-1842, with his neatness and vigor. [[Image:John Constable 008.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An example ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- fighting in the American Revolution, and, in 1782, married the young woman who had nursed him back to health. The Bowies moved a great deal, first settling ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- a member of the Congress of the Confederation from 1782 to 1783, and then retired to open his own law office in New York City. He founded the Bank of ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- French and published in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. A partial translation into English was attempted by ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- When Ireland experienced an earlier famine in 1782-1783, ports were closed in order to keep home grown food for domestic consumption. Food prices ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- Tokyo was hit by powerful earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923. The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- studies and was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1782. He began to practice in New York City after its evacuation by the British in the following year ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- eighty men on shore to catch Negroes.” Between 1782 and 1807, Britain traded over one million human lives. In the colonies of the British Empire, ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- Board of Trade and Plantations from 1779 until 1782, when the Board was abolished. The subsequent promise of an embassy position in Paris never materialized ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- *John Hanson (November 5, 1781– November 3, 1782) *Elias Boudinot (November 4, 1782– November 2, 1783) *Thomas Mifflin ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- moved the royal capital back to Amarapura in 1782. He was titled Hsinbyumyashin (Lord of the White Elephants), although he became known to posterity ...38 KB (5,866 words) - 22:29, 15 September 2023
- Mozart's Singspiele, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) and Die Zauberflöte (1791) were an important breakthrough in achieving international ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- in recorded history. Prior to 2004, in 1782 the deadliest recorded tsunami in the Pacific Ocean with 40,000 people killed by a tsunami in the ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- retain the purity of their music and dance. In 1782, the Leniency Edict of Charles III restored some freedoms to the Spanish Gypsies. Their music and ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- accorded the rights of belligerents. In 1782, by act of Parliament, they were officially recognized as prisoners of war rather than traitors ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- was elected superior of the Society in 1782. Pius VII during his captivity in France, had resolved to restore the Jesuits universally; and after ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- death of Major Peirson, John Singleton Copley, 1782-1784.]] The eighteenth century was a period of political tension between Britain and France ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782), Trimmer commissioned sets ... *Sacred History (1782–1785) (six volumes) *The Œconomy of Charity (1786) ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- a law limiting each Jewish family to one son. In 1782, Joseph II abolished most of persecution practices in his Toleranzpatent, on the condition that ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- Spanish descent, and Louise Cabrol (1724–1782), from Geneva.René Sigrist ... In 1782, Marat published his "favorite work," a Plan de ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- [[Image:Tipu Sultan BL.jpg|thumb|300px|Tipu Sultan (1782 – 1799), took Mysore to the height of its military power]] Though illiterate, Haider ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- |image=[[Image:Cebdenjab.jpg|300px|Imperial Prince Cebdenjab (1705-1782). The son a Khalkha Mongol Prince Tseren, Cebdenjab was a Manchu general ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- Whigs, led by the Earl of Shelburne, took power in 1782, only to collapse after Rockingham's death. The new government, led by the radical politician ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- foremost in espousing these new ideals. As early as 1782 he issued the Patent of Toleration for the Jews of Lower Austria, thereby establishing the civic ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- Sicily, the Inquisition functioned until March 30, 1782, when it was abolished by king Ferdinand IV. It is estimated that 200 people were executed during ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- [[Image:Robert Morrison 1782-1834.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society]] As a result of contact with foreign ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- * John C. Calhoun (1782 – 1850), born near Abbeville, a statesman and political philosopher. From 1811 until his death, Calhoun served in the ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- annexed to France from 1782 to 1789 were allowed to send deputations. According to its own rule, the Convention elected its President every fortnight ...73 KB (10,932 words) - 21:23, 26 December 2022
- the Bank of San Carlos as it was founded in 1782, it was later renamed to Bank ... pdf The Banco de España, 1782–2017: The history of a central ...75 KB (11,270 words) - 17:52, 8 February 2024
- de Laclos in Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) depicts a group of aristocrats playing games of intrigue and amorality. ===The social context=== ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
