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Hace 4 días · Casualties. Death (s) 300–700. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698.
Hace 5 días · Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
Hace 1 día · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
Hace 2 días · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
15 de may. de 2024 · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world, driving changes in energy use, socioeconomics, and culture.
10 de may. de 2024 · Daniel Morgan (born 1736, Hunterdon county, New Jersey [U.S.]—died July 6, 1802, Winchester, Virginia, U.S.) was a general in the American Revolution (1775–83) who won an important victory against the British at the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781).
Hace 3 días · In 1780, in the preface to his History of Birmingham, William Hutton noted that until then Birmingham had 'never manufactured a history of herself who has manufactured everything else'. (fn. 1) Since Hutton's day this lack of histories has been repaired without in any way diminishing the town's fertility in other directions.
