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Hace 2 días · In the late 1760s and early 1770s, several colonies, including Massachusetts and Virginia, attempted to restrict the slave trade, but were prevented from doing so by royally appointed governors. [249] : 245 In 1774, as part of a broader non-importation movement aimed at Britain, the Continental Congress called on all the colonies to ban the importation of slaves, and the colonies passed acts ...
- 1765 to 1783
Hace 1 día · First practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of electricity. 1955: The hovercraft is patented by Christopher Cockerell. 1955: The intermodal container is developed by Malcom McLean. 1957: The laser and optical amplifier are invented and named by Gordon Gould and Charles Townes.
Hace 3 días · Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.
Hace 3 días · Price: £14.99. Dr Nigel Aston, review of The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity, (review no. 415) For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and ...
1 de may. de 2024 · Samuel Adams. Image Source: Wikipedia. Francis Bernard Facts Early Life. Bernard was born in present-day born in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, England. He was born in 1712, but the exact date is unknown. He was christened on July 12, 1712. Bernard’s parents were Reverend Francis Bernard and Margery Winslow. His father died in 1715 and his mother ...
- Randal Rust
4 de may. de 2024 · This book is an English translation by Mark Greengrass of a work first published in French in 1991 and is the companion volume to the author's earlier The Royal French State 1460-1610 (original French edn. 1987). Together the two books comprise the second and third volumes of Blackwell's five volume History of France which covers the period 987 ...
3 de may. de 2024 · In the mid-1760s, committees of correspondence, including Virginia’s, broke with tradition and instructed their agents to join forces. This method of intercolonial communication—legislatures indirectly cooperating through their agents abroad—worked spectacularly well during the winter of 1765–1766 to pressure Parliament to ...
