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Hace 2 días · The War of the Austrian Succession [f] was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War, and the First and Second Silesian Wars .
- 16 December 1740 – 18 October 1748, (7 years, 10 months and 2 days)
Hace 2 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 ...
Hace 2 días · Religion. Opposition and resistance. Related. v. t. e. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
Hace 3 días · A man of destiny. In the second part of our series on Britain’s rise as a naval power, Graham Goodlad explains how supremacy at sea became closely linked with the 18th-century career of Admiral Edward Vernon. In the first half of the 18th century, Britain’s future as the world’s leading maritime nation was not yet assured.
Hace 5 días · Archaeologists at George Washington ’s home in Virginia, Mount Vernon, have discovered two glass bottles filled with a cherry liquid buried beneath a brick floor laid in the 1770s. The project ...
Hace 5 días · Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom. 116 votes. This swashbuckling adventure set in the golden age of piracy sees Captain Jack Sparrow embark on a thrilling quest to recover the cursed treasure of the Black Pearl.
Hace 5 días · Archaeologists discovered centuries-old cherries surprisingly well-preserved inside two glass bottles stashed in George Washington’s historic Virginia home. They found the bottles during excavations as part of a major revitalization of the first US president’s mansion, known as Mount Vernon, the Washington Post reported. According to a ...
