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Hace 3 días · Signature. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé ), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his ...
- 1 September 1715 – 10 May 1774
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
Hace 3 días · 1740s. 1742: Benjamin Franklin invents the Franklin stove. 1745: Musschenbroek and Kleist independently develop the Leyden jar, an early form of capacitor. 1746: John Roebuck invents the lead chamber process. 1750s. 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod. 1755: William Cullen invents the first artificial refrigeration machine. 1760s
Hace 1 día · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
Hace 2 días · Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780198229100; 396pp.; Price: £118.00. Crime and the law, particularly during the period of the Hanoverian Bloody Code, has been a popular area of research for a quarter of a century. The publications that emerged from Edward Thompson and the ...
Hace 4 días · Price: £29.95. In this interesting and readable book, Jo Guldi explores the origins and rise of the ‘infrastructure state’ (1) through an historical analysis of centralised road planning, investment and regulation in Britain. The book’s chronological boundaries are fixed by the changing dimensions of state involvement in road-transport ...
Hace 3 días · The Battle of Nashville (December 15–16, 1864) was a major Union victory and sealed the fate of the Confederacy. More than 64,000 Confederate soldiers and 59,000 Union soldiers died in Tennessee. In 1868, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton.
Hace 2 días · In her stunning book, The Art of Domestic Life, Kate Retford shows that from the 1740s to 1790s the genre of family portraiture was transformed. In the early-eighteenth century, the family was self-aware and aware of the viewer; it was formally posed against a dominating background, and often included members of the wider family. By the later ...
