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English caricature by Isaac Cruikshank. The Incroyables ( French: [ɛ̃kʁwajabl], "incredibles") and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses ( French: [mɛʁvɛjøz], "marvelous women"), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795–1799). Whether as catharsis or in a need to reconnect ...
Vigilant was a Baltimore schooner, possibly originally launched in 1794 as Nonsuch. She appeared in the Danish West Indies as Vigilant from 1824. She carried the mail and passenger traffic between St. Croix and St. Thomas in the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century. [1] A storm sank Vigilant on 12 September 1928.
The French Revolutionary Wars ( French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries. The wars are divided into two periods: the War of the ...
This is effectively the birth of the Beijing opera. September 28 – Death of music patron Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, following which his son disbands his orchestra and the players disperse. December 26 – Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven meet for the first time, in Bonn. [1] Georg Joseph Vogler brings his invention, the orchestrion, to ...
Accessed 13 July 2023. ^ "From the Albany Register; Extract of a letter from Quebec, Feb. 1790," (Quebec) Herald, Miscellany & Advertiser, Vol. II, No. 33 ( July 12, 1790 ), Page 7 of 8. (See also Grenville consulting Haldimand about changes in trade after evacuation, and also "State of the Fur Trade in Canada" (PDF frames 32-4)) Accessed 13 ...
List of pirates. This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates .
Britain and Spain were guaranteed freedom of the seas. The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s, which averted a war between the two countries over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America .
