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Hace 1 día · The Duchy of Venice was born in the 9th century from the Byzantine territories of Maritime Venice. According to tradition, the first doge was elected in 697, but this figure is of dubious historicity and comparable to that of the exarch Paul, who, similarly to the doge, was assassinated in 727 following a revolt.
Hace 1 día · Early life. Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.
Hace 2 horas · In mid-18th century Britain there was assistance available for women who were not able to raise their children. The Foundling Hospital opened in 1756 and was able to take in some of the illegitimate children. However, the conditions within the hospital caused Parliament to withdraw funding and the governors to live off of their own incomes.
Hace 2 horas · In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume came in to refute this very wave of positivism by introducing the concept of probability. Do you remember Hume? He is the philosopher who brings disquiet, and as Immanuel Kant would later say of him, he is the one who “woke him up from his dogmatic sleep”.
Hace 1 día · 18th century With the ending of the Nine Years' War in 1697, and the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713 with the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , France had made substantial concessions. Among the treaty's many provisions, it required France to relinquish all claims to Great Britain on the Hudson Bay, which again became a British possession. [42] (
Hace 1 día · After the 18th century With the onset of the Industrial Revolution , living standards amongst the working population began to worsen, with cramped and unsanitary urban conditions. In the first four decades of the 19th century alone, London 's population doubled and even greater growth rates were recorded in the new industrial towns, such as Leeds and Manchester .
