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Hace 1 día · The Battle of Culloden ( / kəˈlɒdən /; [4] Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness ...
Hace 1 día · 1740s. 1742: Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin stove. 1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor. 1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process. 1750s. 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. 1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine. 1760s
Hace 5 días · Signature. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé ), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his ...
Hace 5 días · Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780198229100; 396pp.; Price: £118.00. Crime and the law, particularly during the period of the Hanoverian Bloody Code, has been a popular area of research for a quarter of a century. The publications that emerged from Edward Thompson and the ...
Hace 4 días · By the end of his 378 pages of text there can be no question that Jacobitism was indeed the primary political loyalty of the great majority of Irish Catholics up to at least the 1740s, and that the threat it posed had a profound effect on the outlook and behaviour of the ruling Protestant minority.
Hace 4 días · The short answer is yes. As for the history, the NYC Department of Parks writes that Bowling Green served as an informal communal ground until the 1740s, when the Common Council — the area’s ...
Hace 4 días · Roundhouse. Originally 'The uppermost rom or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship. and it is the proper place for the Master; and the deck or cover over it is named the Poop of the ship' (Boteler's Dialogues, 1630) Roundhouse is defined in Blanckey's dictionary (1740s) as spaces under the poop. Smaller ships at that time had small cabins ...
