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Hace 3 días · 18th century. During the Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century, Methodist and Baptist preachers toured in the South, trying to persuade planters to manumit their slaves on the basis of equality in God's eyes. They also accepted slaves as members and preachers of new chapels and churches.
Hace 4 días · Early modern Britain (16th – 18th century) 33–40: 18th-century male life expectancy at birth was 34 years. Female expectation of remaining years at age 15 rose from ~33 years around the 15th-16th centuries to ~42 in the 18th century. 18th-century England: 25–40: For most of the century it ranged from 35 to 40; but in the 1720s it dipped ...
Hace 2 días · The Qianlong Emperor in his study, painting by Giuseppe Castiglione, 18th century The Qianlong Emperor Viewing Paintings. The Qianlong Emperor, like his predecessors, took his cultural role seriously. First, he worked to preserve the Manchu heritage, which he saw as the basis of the moral character of the Manchus and thus of the dynasty's power.
Hace 22 horas · The East India Company Military Seminary was founded in 1809 at Addiscombe, near Croydon, Surrey, to train young officers for service in the company's armies in India. It was based in Addiscombe Place, an early 18th-century mansion. The government took it over in 1858 and renamed it the Royal Indian Military College.
Hace 4 días · The 18th century saw the beginning of secularization in Europe, rising to notability in the wake of the French Revolution. Immanuel Kant classified his predecessors into two schools: the rationalists and the empiricists , [108] The three main rationalists are normally taken to have been René Descartes , Baruch Spinoza , and Gottfried Leibniz .
Hace 3 días · Other important European mathematicians of the 18th century included Joseph Louis Lagrange, who did pioneering work in number theory, algebra, differential calculus, and the calculus of variations, and Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the age of Napoleon, did important work on the foundations of celestial mechanics and on statistics. Modern
Hace 2 días · 18th-century painting of Dirk Valkenburg showing plantation slaves during a Ceremonial dance. Whitehall in England announced in 1833 that slaves in British colonies would be completely freed by 1838. In the meantime, the government told slaves they had to remain on their plantations and would have the status of "apprentices" for the next six years.
