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Hace 5 días · 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. 1776: John Wilkinson invents a mechanical air compressor that would become the prototype for all later ...
Hace 3 días · d. 1770 1718–1720 England After entering into piracy in 1718, Condent later took a prize of £150,000 with his ship Fiery Dragon and retired to France, becoming a wealthy merchant. Known by many names, including Condent, Congdon, Connor or Condell; and by given names including William, Christopher, Edmond or John. Joseph Cooper: d. 1725
Hace 3 días · e. The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
Hace 5 días · The first contact between British explorers and Indigenous Australians came in 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook interacted with the Guugu Yimithirr people around contemporary Cooktown. Cook wrote that he had claimed the east coast of Australia for what was then the Kingdom of Great Britain and named it New South Wales , while on ...
Hace 5 días · The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The project seeks to reveal the ubiquity of slavery in eighteenth-century life from New England to Georgia by republishing advertisements about enslaved people – for sale as individuals or in groups, wanted to purchase or for hire for short periods ...
Hace 3 días · 1770–1772 Russian plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1770–1772 Russia: Bubonic plague: 50,000 1772 North America measles epidemic 1772 North America Measles: 1,080 1772–1773 Persian Plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1772–1773 Persia: Bubonic plague: 2 million 1775–1776 England influenza outbreak 1775–1776 England
Hace 2 días · The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain, primarily supported by Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
