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The British credit crisis of 1772–1773, also known as the crisis of 1772, or the panic of 1772, was a peacetime financial crisis which originated in London and then spread to Scotland and the Dutch Republic. [1] It has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. [2] New colonies, as Adam Smith observed, had ...
Racknitz was wrong both about the position of the operator and the dimensions of the automaton. [1] The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player ( German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török ), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess -playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a ...
Teraura, also Susan or Susannah Young ( c. 1775 – July 1850), was a Tahitian woman who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young 's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti. A tapa maker, examples of her craft are found in the British Museum and at Kew Gardens .
The 1770s were notable for extreme hairstyles and wigs which were built up very high, and often incorporated decorative objects (sometimes symbolic, as in the case of the famous engraving depicting a lady wearing a large ship in her hair with masts and sails—called the "Coiffure à l'Indépendance ou le Triomphe de la liberté"—to celebrate naval victory in the American war of independence).
Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. 1770s disestablishments in the United States (2 P) 1770s establishments in the United States (6 C, 1 P)
The term Semitic in a racial sense was coined by members of the Göttingen school of history in the early 1770s. Other members of the Göttingen school of history coined the separate term Caucasian in the 1780s. These terms were used and developed by numerous other scholars over the next century.
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