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Hace 1 día · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
9 de may. de 2024 · Pre-Romanticism, cultural movement in Europe from about the 1740s onward that preceded and presaged the artistic movement known as Romanticism (q.v.). Chief among these trends was a shift in public taste away from the grandeur, austerity, nobility, idealization, and elevated sentiments of
Hace 2 días · 1740s. 1742: Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin stove. 1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor. 1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process. 1750s. 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. 1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine. 1760s
Hace 3 días · Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.
27 de abr. de 2024 · The term Rococo is sometimes used to denote the light, elegant, and highly ornamental music composed at the end of the Baroque period—i.e., from the 1740s until the 1770s.
3 de may. de 2024 · SUMMARY. The backcountry frontier of colonial Virginia reached westward from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the farthest extent of Virginia settlement in the eighteenth century. By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms “backcountry” or “back settlements ...
Hace 2 días · Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN: 9781137328199; 216pp.; Price: £53.00. Until about 15 years ago the complex history of the links between the north of Ireland and colonial America was something of a brackish backwater in 18th-century Atlantic studies.
