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The 1750s was a pioneering decade. Waves of settlers flooded the New World (specifically the Americas) in hopes of re-establishing life away from European control, and electricity was a field of novelty that had yet to be merged with the studies of chemistry and engineering.
- Años 1750
La Guerra de los Siete Años ( 1756 - 1763) entre dos...
- 1750–1775 in Western fashion
After reaching their maximum size in the 1750s, hoop skirts...
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January–March
1. January 13 – The Treaty of Madrid between Spain and Portugal authorizes a larger Brazil than had the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, which originally established the boundaries of the Portuguese and Spanish territories in South America. 2. January 24 – A fire in Istanbuldestroys 10,000 homes. 3. February 15 – After Spain and Portugal agree that the Uruguay Riverwill be the boundary line between the two kingdoms' territory in South America, the Spanish Governor orders the Jesuits to vacate s...
April–June
1. April 7 – Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone, a polygar in Tamil Nadu raise slogans launches a rebellion against Company rule in India due to his opposition to the East India Company's tax collection policies. 2. April 13 – Dr. Thomas Walker and five other men (Ambrose Powell, Colby Chew, William Tomlinson, Henry Lawless and John Hughes) cross through the Cumberland Gap, a mountain pass through the Appalachian Mountains, to become the first white people to venture into territories that had been inha...
July–September
1. July 9 – Traveller Jonas Hanway leaves St. Petersburg to return home, via Germany and the Netherlands. Later the same year, Hanway reputedly becomes the first Englishman to use an umbrella(a French fashion). 2. July 11 – Halifax, Nova Scotiais almost completely destroyed by fire. 3. July 31 – José I takes over the throne of Portugal from his deceased father, João V. King José Manuel appoints the Marquis of Pombal as his Chief Minister, who then strips the Inquisitionof its power. 4. August...
January 24 – Nicolas Bergasse, French lawyer (d. 1832)January 24 – Helen Gloag, Scottish-born slave Empress of Morocco (d. 1790)March 16 – Caroline Herschel, German astronomer (d. 1848)April – Joanna Southcott, British religious fanatic (d. 1814)January 16 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)January 22 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)January 23 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (b. 1672)January 26 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1750". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n– via Hathi Trust.
The 1770s (pronounced "seventeen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1770, and ended on December 31, 1779. A period full of discoveries, breakthroughs happened in all walks of life, as what emerged at this period brought life to most innovations we know today.
The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783.
March 12. Arauco War: Battle of Penco – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche in modern-day Chile. Acapulco is founded by 30 families sent from Mexico City. [4]
