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Hace 2 días · Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the imperial government led the 13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775.
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Hace 2 días · 1770s. 1770: Richard Salter invents the earliest known design for a weighing scale. 1774: John Wilkinson invents his boring machine, considered by some to be the first machine tool. 1775: Jesse Ramsden invents the modern screw-cutting lathe.
Hace 1 día · Joseph Priestley. Joseph Priestley FRS ( / ˈpriːstli /; [3] 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. [4] He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.
- 6 February 1804 (aged 70), Northumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Hace 5 días · Nathan Ha le, the first man killed for spying for the young United States, didn't grow up thinking he'd be a spy. It just happened that way. He was born on June 6, 1755, into a family that eventually had 12 children. He was the sixth child of Richard and Elizabeth Hale. The family home was a farm in Coventry, Connecticut.
Hace 5 días · Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and Generation. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199565191; 296pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an outstanding book, which will open up a new area of research for historians of the family. We have so many good histories of children and childhood, but Joanne Bailey’s book is the ...
Hace 4 días · In the 1770s and 1780s, aristocratic women were often denigrated as abandoning domesticity for the "bon ton," the world of fashion. In a related work, Dror Wahrman suggests that divisions between a national culture of "Society" and local, provincial culture might have been more relevant than those between the middle class and the aristocracy.
Hace 5 días · The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1804 to fix the problem that had arisen with the election in 1800. it made it so electors were required to vote separately for president and vice president. Perhaps the most significant achievement during his presidency was the Louisiana Territory.
