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Hace 2 días · In the 18th century, a tremendous number of official academies and societies were founded in Europe, and by 1789 there were over 70 official scientific societies. In reference to this growth, Bernard de Fontenelle coined the term "the Age of Academies" to describe the 18th century.
Hace 1 día · 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s. 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s
Hace 4 días · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre- Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
Hace 1 día · The 18th century was a century of prosperity for the overseas Spanish Empire as trade within grew steadily, particularly in the second half of the century, under the Bourbon reforms. Spain's victory in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias against a British expedition in the Caribbean port of Cartagena de Indias helped Spain secure its ...
Hace 2 días · August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica. Died: May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island (aged 51) Title / Office: emperor (1815-1815), France. emperor (1804-1814), France. Founder: Saint-Cyr.
Hace 5 días · Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History. Mark Lawrence. London, Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9780815351061; 212pp.; Price: £96.00. Reviewer: Dan Royle. University of Sheffield. Citation: Dan Royle, review of Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History, (review no. 2424) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2424. Date accessed: 17 March, 2024.
Hace 4 días · While Hempton doesn’t use the term himself, this book is in some ways an exploration of ‘glocal’ Christianity in the 18th century, exploring the interplay between global and local pushes and pulls in creating a world-wide religion.