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- borders. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers) he was ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- was sent to Old Mill Prison, where he died in March 1782, several months after the surrender of the British commander in the field, General Charles Cornwallis ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- Wedgwood to invest in steam-powered engines, and in 1782, Etruria was the first factory to install such an engine. As a result of the close association ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- of Baron Gottfried van Swieten in Vienna around 1782. Van Swieten, during diplomatic service in Berlin, had taken the opportunity to collect as many manuscripts ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- and saw much active service between 1779 and 1782, including participating in the Battle of the Chesapeake. In the memorable engagement of the Battle ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1782, notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her. * Mutiny on the Bounty happened aboard ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- treaty, which was signed on November 30, 1782. Before these negotiations began, Adams had spent some time in the Netherlands. In July 1780, he ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- meaning "earth") was discovered in 1782 by the Hungarian Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (Müller Ferenc) in Transylvania. Another Hungarian ...14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- and lodging in place of charitable grants. In 1782, the passing of Gilbert’s Union Act simplified the procedure for parishes to establish workhouses ...14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
- |term_start5 =July 10, 1782 |term_end5 =March 31, 1783 ... After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- In 1782, Blake met John Flaxman, who was to become his patron. In the same year he met Catherine Boucher. At the time, Blake was recovering from ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of ... Assembly, which was held in Richmond. In 1782, he was elected sheriff of ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- did not believe in the antiquity of the poems. In 1782 a new edition of Rowley's poems appeared, with a "Commentary, in which the antiquity ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- and genre most typifies the Classical era. In 1782, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, founded his Imperial Wind Ensemble in Vienna. Harmoniemusik had ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- his wife asked for a judicial separation in 1782. She was defended by Jean ... published after his liberation in 1782. It exhibits an accurate knowledge ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- isolated the oxide of the metal from molybdenite. In 1782, Hjelm isolated an impure extract of the metal by reducing the oxide with carbon. Molybdenum ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 19:51, 9 November 2022
- | established_date3 = 1768–1782 | established_event4 = Rattanakosin ... the Great, until a coup d'etat in 1782. The current Ratthanakosin ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- In 1782, poor law reformer Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an act that established poor houses solely for the aged and the infirmed ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- of State for the Southern Department from 1779 to 1782, and Lord President of the Council in 1783. He supported Lord Camden's decision against ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- Tory Lord North subsequently resigned in 1782. George III finally accepted ... In 1782, after 12 years in office, the ministry of Lord North collapsed ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- In 1782 he returned to the legislature of his native state, where he served until 1796. Edward was one of the most powerful political leaders ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- finally promoted to full general on November 20, 1782, and later transferred to command the 11th dragoons. Gage died on the Isle of Portland on April ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- John C. Calhoun was born near there on March 18, 1782. Calhoun practiced law in the city before beginning his political career. Calhoun became a congressman ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782 and served in the Continental Congress (1783–1786). As a youthful politician ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- | caption = Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782. | birthname = Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée | birthdate = 1755|4|16|mf=y ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- *Jane, born in 1782, died in 1897 *Jesse, born in 1784 or 1785; killed by his half-brother, John, in 1812 (No reason is given for the deaths of ...17 KB (2,909 words) - 16:09, 7 November 2022
- married a widow, Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-1782). [https://www.whitehouse ... (1780-1781), and a second Lucy Elizabeth (1782-1785). Martha Wayles Skelton ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- language "Methodical Encyclopaedia" of 1782 defines a menagerie as an "establishment of luxury and curiosity." Later on the term was ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- feeling. After her mother’s death in 1782, Mary moved in with Fanny and her family, and worked to support them as well as her younger sisters. ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence . 1782. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199570737 * Bentham, Jeremy. Panopticon. 1785. Verso ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit (1782-3) *God. Some Conversations (1787) 1785-95 *Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- William Cowper wrote a popular poem, "Boadicea, an Ode" in 1782. [http://www.bartleby.com/41/320.html Boadicea, an ode], Bartleby.com ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- Thonburi. When Taksin's reign ended in 1782, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ... is the Grand Palace, which dates to 1782 and has housed Thailand's ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- Street. The main building was constructed between 1782 and 1793 to a Neo-Palladian design by Matvei Kazakov and rebuilt after Fire of Moscow (1812) ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- In 1782, a gentleman by the name of John Locust discovered the coffin of Queen Catherine at the ruins of the Sudeley Castle chapel. He opened ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- The last eruptive period took place in 1781-1782. This episode ended shortly before the arrival of Lewis and Clark in 1805. The U.S. Geological ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- in controversy over religion and politics. In 1782, he published The History of the Corruption of Christianity, which was officially burned by the ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- of Greek and Roman artifacts to the museum in 1782. In the early nineteenth century, the foundations for the extensive collection of sculptures ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- In June 1782, Jones was appointed to command the 74-gun America, however Congress decided to give the America to the French as replacement for ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- attention was The Nightmare, exhibited in 1782. He painted this after a failed romance with Lavater's niece Anna Landolt and it is thought ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- Two more patents were granted for these in 1781 and 1782. Numerous other improvements that made for easier manufacture and installation were continually ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
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- From 1782 to 1818, a wave of slaveholders inspired by the Revolutionary ... Selected Virginia Counties, ca. 1782-1818,] Utah State University ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Mozart (unfinished) by Lange 1782.jpg|thumb|350px|Unfinished ... * John Field (1782-1837) * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- * Vom Geist der Hebräischen Poesie 1782–1783 * Ideen zur Philosophie ... *Symphony in C sharp minor VB 140 (1782) *Symphony in C minor VB 142 (1783) ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- extorted from the British government in 1782; and, himself an Anglican, he urged co-operation between the different religious sects in Ireland ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- It was translated into a European language in 1782 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, as Art Militaire des Chinois, and that name probably ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- concerns the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1782) and Swedenborgian writers on Sadhu Sundar Singh. Sharpe refers to correspondence between Singh ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- In 1782, Marshall entered politics, winning a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, in which he served until 1789, and again from 1795–1796 ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
