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246 relations: Abbeville, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Aguardiente, American Revolution, Antoine Lavoisier, Antonio de Ulloa, April 17, April 22, April 3, April 4, April 6, April 7, April 9, Aranjuez, Archibald Bower, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, August 10, August 13, August 6, Barbara Fritchie, Beast of Gévaudan, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Heath, Bristol Old Vic, Cape Lookout (North Carolina), Carlo Zimech, Catholic Church, Cédula de identidad, Censorship in Sweden, Charles Darwin, Charles Edward Stuart, Charles III of Spain, Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Christian VII of Denmark, Christie's, Decapitation, December 12, December 2, December 23, December 3, December 5, Declaratory Act, Dictionnaire philosophique, Dominique Jean Larrey, Duchy of Lorraine, Dutch East India Company, Ecuador, Edinburgh, Ekkathat, Elisabeth Farnese, ..., Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Empress Joséphine, Falkland Islands, February, February 11, February 13, February 14, February 15, February 18, February 20, February 23, February 5, François-Jean de la Barre, France, František Maxmilián Kaňka, Frederick V of Denmark, Freedom of information laws by country, Freedom of the press, George III of the United Kingdom, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgian Theatre (Stockton-on-Tees), Germaine de Staël, Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter), Gray wolf, Guayaquil, Gustav III of Sweden, Hedvig Strömfelt, Henry Cavendish, Henry Fourdrinier, Henry George Bohn, Hillsborough, North Carolina, House of Stuart, Hydrogen, Iroquois, Jacob Perkins, Jacobitism, James Christie (auctioneer), James Francis Edward Stuart, James Quin, Jane Colden, January 1, January 13, January 14, January 19, January 20, January 21, January 3, January 6, January 9, Jean Astruc, Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, Jean-Marc Nattier, Johann Christoph Gottsched, John Bartram, John Blair (priest), John Dalton, John Mills (encyclopedist), John Penn (governor), John Taylor (classical scholar), Jonathan Mayhew, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, July 1, July 11, July 14, July 17, July 21, July 8, July 9, June 13, June 22, June 24, June 4, Leopold Joseph von Daun, List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church, List of rulers of Lorraine, Lolotte Forssberg, Louisiana (New Spain), Magdalena Rudenschöld, Malagasy people, Malhar Rao Holkar, March 10, March 18, March 5, Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, Martinique, May 20, May 22, May 29, May 30, May 5, May 8, Meermin slave mutiny, Mozart family grand tour, Mustafa III, Myanmar, New Jersey, New Orleans, Nguyễn Du, November 10, November 2, November 27, November 29, November 7, November 9, October 1, October 23, October 4, Orange County, North Carolina, Ottoman Empire, Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, Philip V of Spain, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (city), Phrygian cap, Pietà, Malta, Province of New York, Province of North Carolina, Pyre, Quito, Robert Darwin, Royal Society, Rutgers University, Saint Kitts, Saint-Louis, Senegal, Salzburg, Samuel Chandler, Savanna, September 1, September 13, September 23, September 25, September 3, September 6, Serbian Orthodox Church, Slave ship, Sons of Liberty, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Stamp Act 1765, Stanisław Leszczyński, Sweden, Thomas Birch, Thomas Charles Hope, Thomas Robert Malthus, Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Torture, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Viceroyalty of New Granada, Voltaire, Wilhelm Hisinger, William Franklin, William Hyde Wollaston, Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, Wilmington, North Carolina, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yugoslavia, 1674, 1677, 1678, 1684, 1685, 1686, 1688, 1692, 1693, 1695, 1696, 1700, 1704, 1705, 1720, 1723, 1724, 1726, 1754, 1759, 1817, 1820, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1828, 1834, 1840, 1842, 1844, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1852, 1854, 1858, 1862, 1875, 1920. Expand index (196 more) »

Abbeville

Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Adrien Maurice de Noailles

Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles (29 September 1678 – 24 June 1766) was a French nobleman and soldier.

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Aguardiente

Aguardiente (pattar, aiguardent, augardente, aguardente) is a generic term for alcoholic beverages that contain between 29% and 60% alcohol by volume.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution;; 26 August 17438 May 1794) CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Antonio de Ulloa

Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giral (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general of the navy, explorer, scientist, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana.

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April 17

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April 22

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April 3

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April 4

On the Roman calendar, this was known as the day before the nones of April (Pridie).

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April 6

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April 7

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April 9

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Aranjuez

Aranjuez, also called the Royal Estate of Aranjuez, is a city and municipality, capital of the Las Vegas district, in the southern part of the Community of Madrid, Spain.

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Archibald Bower

Archibald Bower (17 January 1686 – 3 September 1766) was a Scottish historian, now noted for his complicated and varying religious faith, and the accounts he gave of it, now considered by scholars to lack credibility.

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Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

Armand-Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (25 September 176617 May 1822), was a prominent French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration.

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August 10

The term 'the 10th of August' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.

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August 13

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August 6

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Barbara Fritchie

Barbara Fritchie (née Hauer) (December 3, 1766 – December 18, 1862), also known as Barbara Frietchie, and sometimes spelled Frietschie, was a Unionist during the Civil War.

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Beast of Gévaudan

The Beast of Gévaudan (La Bête du Gévaudan;, La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is the historical name associated with the man-eating gray wolf, dog or wolfdog that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (modern-day département of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France between 1764 and 1767.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Benjamin Heath

Benjamin Heath, D.C.L. (April 10, 1704September 13, 1766) was an English classical scholar and bibliophile.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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Cape Lookout (North Carolina)

Cape Lookout is the southern point of the Core Banks, one of the natural barrier islands on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina, USA.

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Carlo Zimech

Don Carlo Zimech (Dun Karlu Zimech, 1696 – 22 June 1766) was a Maltese priest and painter.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cédula de identidad

Cedula (Latin) means, in general, an order or authorization; in earlier times such a document on the authority of a king, or a royal decree, which for Spain and Spanish America was a decree issued directly by the monarch.

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Censorship in Sweden

Sweden protects freedom of speech and was a pioneer in officially abolishing censorship.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII and after 1766 the Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Spanish: Carlos; Italian: Carlo; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain and the Spanish Indies (1759–1788), after ruling Naples as Charles VII and Sicily as Charles V (1734–1759), kingdoms he abdicated to his son Ferdinand.

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Charles Louis de Fourcroy

Charles Louis de Fourcroy (1766–1824) was a French mathematician, scholar and director of fortifications, known from his 1782 treatise, entitled "Essai d’une table poléométrique".

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Christian VII of Denmark

Christian VII (29 January 1749 13 March 1808) was a monarch of the House of Oldenburg who was King of Denmark-Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Decapitation

Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.

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December 12

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December 2

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December 23

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December 3

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December 5

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Declaratory Act

The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo 3 c 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.

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Dictionnaire philosophique

The Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by Voltaire in 1764.

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Dominique Jean Larrey

Dominique Jean Larrey (8 July 1766 – 25 July 1842) was a French surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armée and an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage.

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Duchy of Lorraine

The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English-speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 from a government-backed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Ekkathat

Borommaracha Kasat Bowon Sucharit (บรมราชากษัตริย์บวรสุจริต), Somdet Phra Chao Yu Hua Phra Thi Nang Suriyat Amarin (สมเด็จพระเจ้าอยู่หัวพระที่นั่งสุริยาสน์อมรินทร์), Chaofa Ekathat (เอกทัศ), or Krom Khun Anurak Montri (กรมขุนอนุรักษ์มนตรี), was the 33rd and last monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom, ruling from 1758 to 7 April 1767 prior to the fall of the kingdom.

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Elisabeth Farnese

Elisabeth Farnese (Italian: Elisabetta Farnese, Spanish: Isabel de Farnesio; 25 October 1692 – 11 July 1766) was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy and was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746.

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Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy

Emmanuel de Grouchy, 2ème Marquis de Grouchy (23 October 1766 – 29 May 1847) was a French general and marshal.

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Empress Joséphine

Joséphine de Beauharnais (born Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French as Joséphine.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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February

February is the second and shortest month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar with 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years, with the quadrennial 29th day being called the leap day.

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February 11

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February 13

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February 14

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February 15

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February 18

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February 20

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February 23

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February 5

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François-Jean de la Barre

François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (12 September 17451 July 1766) was a young French nobleman.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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František Maxmilián Kaňka

František Maxmilián Kaňka (9 August 1674 – 14 July 1766, both in Prague) was a Czech architect and builder.

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Frederick V of Denmark

Frederick V (Danish and Norwegian: Frederik; 31 March 172314 January 1766) was king of Denmark–Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 1746 until his death.

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Freedom of information laws by country

Freedom of Information laws (FOI laws) allow access by the general public to data held by national governments.

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Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.

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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Georgian Theatre (Stockton-on-Tees)

The Georgian Theatre is a Grade II listed theatre in Stockton-on-Tees, England and is one of the oldest Georgian provincial theatres in the country (cf Bath, Norwich).

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Germaine de Staël

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker; 22 April 176614 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

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Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni

Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (2 May 1695 – 19 January 1766) was a French decorator, architect, scene-painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist.

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Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter)

Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. (19 July 1688 – 17 July 1766), was an Italian Jesuit brother and a missionary in China, where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three emperors – the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Guayaquil

Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil (St.), is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area, as well as the nation's main port.

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Gustav III of Sweden

Gustav III (– 29 March 1792) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792.

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Hedvig Strömfelt

Hedvig Strömfelt (Stockholm 11 October 1723 - Kersö), 22 May 1766), was a Swedish Baroness and psalm writer. She occupied an important place in the Moravian Church Stockholm congregation in 18th-century Sweden. She composed the psalms number 46, 59 and 63 in Sions Sånger (Songs of Sion) of 1743, and likely 72, 78, 85, 86, 105 and 108 in Sions Nya Sånger (New Songs of Sion) of 1748.

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Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish FRS (10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.

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Henry Fourdrinier

Henry Fourdrinier (11 February 1766 – 3 September 1854) was a British paper-making entrepreneur.

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Henry George Bohn

Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher.

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Hillsborough, North Carolina

The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina.

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House of Stuart

The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a European royal house that originated in Scotland.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.

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Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins (9 July 1766 – 30 July 1849) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism (Seumasachas, Seacaibíteachas, Séamusachas) was a political movement in Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and Ireland (as James VII in Scotland) and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.

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James Christie (auctioneer)

James Christie (1730–1803) was the founder of auction house Christie's. Born 1730 in Perth, Scotland, Christie went on to found Christie's auctioneers on 5 December 1766. Situated at Pall Mall in London, England Christie's Great Rooms dealt with some of the most important sales of the late-eighteenth century.

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James Francis Edward Stuart

James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales (10 June 1688 – 1 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena.

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James Quin

James Quin (24 February 1693 – 21 January 1766) was an English actor of Irish descent.

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Jane Colden

Jane Colden (March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766) was an American botanist,Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by Asa Gray in 1843.

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January 1

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.

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January 13

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January 14

In the 20th and 21st centuries the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, thus January 14 is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (Old New Year) by religious groups who use the Julian calendar.

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January 19

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January 20

In the ancient astronomy, it is the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius.

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January 21

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January 3

Perihelion, the point during the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.

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January 6

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January 9

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Jean Astruc

Jean Astruc (Sauve, France, 19 March 1684 – Paris, 5 May 1766) was a professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.

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Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (March 16, 1766? – April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer.

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Jean-Marc Nattier

Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766), French painter, was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist.

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Johann Christoph Gottsched

Johann Christoph Gottsched (2 February 1700 – 12 December 1766) was a German philosopher, author, and critic.

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John Bartram

John Bartram (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an early American botanist, horticulturist and explorer.

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John Blair (priest)

John Blair FRS, FSA (died 24 June 1782), was a British clergyman, and chronologist.

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John Dalton

John Dalton FRS (6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist.

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John Mills (encyclopedist)

John Mills (c. 1717 – c. 1794) was an English writer on agriculture, translator and editor.

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John Penn (governor)

John Penn (14 July 1729 – 9 February 1795) was the last governor of colonial Pennsylvania, serving in that office from 1763 to 1771 and from 1773 to 1776.

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John Taylor (classical scholar)

John Taylor (22 June 1704 – 4 April 1766), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

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Jonathan Mayhew

Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720 – July 9, 1766) was a noted American Congregational minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts.

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José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

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Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

Johann Josef Wenzel Anton Franz Karl, Graf Radetzky von Radetz (John Joseph Wenceslaus Anthony Francis Charles, Count Radetzky of Radetz; Jan Josef Václav Antonín František Karel hrabě Radecký z Radče 2 November 1766 – 5 January 1858) was a Czech nobleman and field marshal, a member of House of Radetzky in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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July 1

It is the first day of the second half of the year.

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July 11

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July 14

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July 17

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July 21

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July 8

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July 9

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June 13

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June 22

On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

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June 24

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June 4

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Leopold Joseph von Daun

Count Leopold Joseph von Daun (Reichsgraf von und zu Daun; 24 September 17055 February 1766), later Prince of Thiano, was an Austrian field marshal of the Imperial Army in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War.

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List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church

This article lists the heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since the establishment of the church as an autocephalous Archbishopric in 1219 to today's Patriarchate.

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List of rulers of Lorraine

The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions.

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Lolotte Forssberg

Fredrika Charlotte "Lolotte" Forssberg (1766–1840) was a Swedish noble and lady-in-waiting, later countess Stenbock.

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Louisiana (New Spain)

Louisiana (Luisiana, sometimes called Luciana In some Spanish texts of the time the name of Luciana appears instead of Louisiana, as is the case in the Plan of the Internal Provinces of New Spain made in 1817 by the Spanish militar José Caballero.) was the name of an administrative Spanish Governorate belonging to the Captaincy General of Cuba, part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1762 to 1802 that consisted of territory west of the Mississippi River basin, plus New Orleans.

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Magdalena Rudenschöld

Magdalena "Malla" or "Malin" Charlotta Rudenschöld (1 January 1766 – 5 March 1823 in Stockholm, Sweden), was a Swedish countess, lady-in-waiting and conspirator.

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Malagasy people

The Malagasy (Malgache) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the island and country of Madagascar.

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Malhar Rao Holkar

Malhar Rao Holkar (16 March 1693 – 20 May 1766) was a noble of the Maratha Empire, in present-day India.

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March 10

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March 18

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March 5

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Margaret Fownes-Luttrell

Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (7 February 1726 – 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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May 20

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May 22

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May 29

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May 30

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May 5

This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).

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May 8

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Meermin slave mutiny

The Meermin slave mutiny took place in February 1766 and lasted for three weeks.

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Mozart family grand tour

The Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their musically gifted children Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Amadeus from 1763 to 1766.

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Mustafa III

Mustafa III (28 January 1717 – 24 December 1773) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1773.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Nguyễn Du

Nguyễn Du (3 January 1765 – 16 September 1820), pen names Tố Như and Thanh Hiên, is a celebrated Vietnamese poet who wrote in chữ nôm, the ancient writing script of Vietnam.

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November 10

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November 2

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November 27

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November 29

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November 7

This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).

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November 9

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October 1

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October 23

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October 4

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Orange County, North Carolina

Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Pennsylvania Gazette

The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States' most prominent newspapers from 1728, before the time period of the American Revolution, until 1800.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philip V of Spain

Philip V (Felipe V, Philippe, Filippo; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to his abdication in favour of his son Louis on 15 January 1724, and from his reascendancy of the throne upon his son's death on 6 September 1724 to his own death on 9 July 1746.

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Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (city)

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (พระนครศรีอยุธยา,; also spelled "Ayudhya"), or locally and simply Ayutthaya, is the former capital of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province in Thailand.

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Phrygian cap

The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans.

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Pietà, Malta

Pietà (Tal-Pietà) is a small town Central Region of Malta, located on the outskirts of the capital city Valletta.

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Province of New York

The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America.

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Province of North Carolina

For history prior to 1712, see Province of Carolina. King Charles II of England granted the Carolina charter in 1663 for land south of Virginia Colony and north of Spanish Florida.

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Pyre

A pyre (πυρά; pyrá, from πῦρ, pyr, "fire"), also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution.

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Quito

Quito (Kitu; Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of above sea level, it is the second-highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, and the one which is closest to the equator.

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Robert Darwin

Robert Waring Darwin (30 May 1766 – 13 November 1848) was an English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Saint Kitts

Saint Kitts, also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies.

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Saint-Louis, Senegal

Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region.

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Salzburg

Salzburg, literally "salt fortress", is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Salzburg state.

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Samuel Chandler

Samuel Chandler (1693 – 8 May 1766) was an English Nonconformist minister, dissenter and polemicist pamphleteer.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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September 1

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September 13

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September 23

It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

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September 25

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September 3

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September 6

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Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church (Српска православна црква / Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches.

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Slave ship

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves.

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Sons of Liberty

The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies.

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Sophia Magdalena of Denmark

Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (Sofie Magdalene; 3 July 1746 – 21 August 1813) was Queen of Sweden as the spouse of King Gustav III.

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Stamp Act 1765

The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

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Stanisław Leszczyński

Stanisław I Leszczyński (also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, Stanislovas Leščinskis, Stanislas Leszczynski; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Thomas Birch

Thomas Birch (23 November 1705 – 9 January 1766) was an English historian.

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Thomas Charles Hope

Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a Scottish physician, chemist and lecturer.

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Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.

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Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Tiberius Hemsterhuis (9 January 1685 – 7 April 1766) was a Dutch philologist and critic.

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Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

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Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer

Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer Obdam (30 October 1692 - 9 November 1766) was a Dutch nobleman who was a diplomat, composer, and administrator.

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Viceroyalty of New Granada

The Viceroyalty of New Granada (Virreinato de la Nueva Granada) was the name given on 27 May 1717, to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wilhelm Hisinger

Wilhelm Hisinger (December 23, 1766 – June 28, 1852) was a Swedish physicist and chemist who in 1807, working in coordination with Jöns Jakob Berzelius, noted that in electrolysis any given substance always went to the same pole, and that substances attracted to the same pole had other properties in common.

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William Franklin

William Franklin FRSE (1730 – November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator.

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William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston (6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.

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Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.

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Wilmington, North Carolina

Wilmington is a port city and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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1674

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1677

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1678

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1684

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1685

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1686

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1688

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1692

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1693

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1695

It was also a particularly cold and wet year.

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1696

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1700

As of March 1 (O.S. February 19), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until 1799.

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1704

In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

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1705

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

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1720

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1723

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1724

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1726

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1754

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1759

In Great Britain, this year was known as the Annus Mirabilis, because of British victories in the Seven Years' War.

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1817

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1820

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1822

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1823

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1824

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1828

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1834

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1840

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1842

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1844

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1847

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1848

It is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.

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1849

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1852

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1854

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1858

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1862

This year was named by Mitchell Stephens as the greatest year to read newspapers.

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1875

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1920

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