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Hace 2 días · In February 1768, the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay Colony issued a circular letter to the other colonies urging them to coordinate resistance. The governor dissolved the assembly when it refused to rescind the letter.
Hace 3 días · Charlotte, city, seat (1774) of Mecklenburg county, south-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies just east of the Catawba River in the Piedmont region. Settled about 1750, it was incorporated in 1768 and named for Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III ’s queen.
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Hace 3 días · In 1768, Jefferson began constructing his primary residence, Monticello, whose name in Italian means "Little Mountain", on a hilltop overlooking his 5,000-acre (20 km 2; 7.8 sq mi) plantation. [d] He spent most of his adult life designing Monticello as architect and was quoted as saying, "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling ...
Hace 5 días · John Witherspoon, President of the college (1768–94) and signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1756, the college moved again to its present home in Princeton, New Jersey, because Newark was felt to be too close to New York. Princeton was chosen for its location in central New Jersey and by strong recommendation by Belcher.
Hace 3 días · Lavien contracted yellow fever and died on February 19, 1768, leaving Hamilton orphaned. Lavien's death may have had a severe emotional impact on Hamilton, even by the standards of an 18th-century childhood.
Hace 1 día · Franz Joseph von Plettenberg-Wittem (1714–1779) Reichsgraf Franz Joseph Maria von Plettenberg und Wittem (* 19. März 1714; † 29. April 1779 in Wien) war kaiserlicher Kämmerer sowie münsterischer Erbmarschall und Kurkölnischer Erbkämmerer .
Hace 3 días · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
