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Hace 1 día · End of European witch-hunts in the 18th century The drowning of an alleged witch, with Thomas Colley as the incitor In England and Scotland between 1542 and 1735, a series of Witchcraft Acts enshrined into law the punishment (often with death, sometimes with incarceration ) of individuals practising or claiming to practice witchcraft and magic. [88]
Hace 3 días · Establishment of the French First Republic (1792) Execution of Louis XVI (1793) Thermidorian Reaction (1794) French Directory (1795) Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799) War of the First Coalition. (1792–1797) Location: Western, Central, and Southern Europe, West Indies. French Republic.
Hace 4 días · Alexander Pope, who had a considerable influence on Walpole, was the first significant poet of the 18th century to write a poem in an authentic Gothic manner. Eloisa to Abelard (1717), a tale of star-crossed lovers, one doomed to a life of seclusion in a convent, and the other in a monastery, abounds in gloomy imagery, religious terror, and suppressed passion.
Hace 16 horas · The American Revolution was part of the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions, an 18th and 19th century revolutionary wave in the Atlantic World. The first shot of the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington and Concord is referred to as the "shot heard 'round the world" due to its historical and global significance. [232]
Hace 16 horas · From the 7th century AD, Islam spread west from Arabia via conquest, intent on spreading monotheism, and via proselytization, mainly through Faqirs, to North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and later southwards to the Swahili coast, then from the Maghreb traversing the Sahara into West Africa, catalysed by the Fulani Jihad in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Hace 1 día · The second half of the 18th century saw the emergence of three major Irish authors: Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) and Laurence Sterne (1713–1768). Goldsmith is the author of The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), a pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) and two plays, The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
Hace 4 días · Early modern Britain (16th – 18th century) 33–40: 18th-century male life expectancy at birth was 34 years. Female expectation of remaining years at age 15 rose from ~33 years around the 15th-16th centuries to ~42 in the 18th century. 18th-century England: 25–40: For most of the century it ranged from 35 to 40; but in the 1720s it dipped ...
