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Hace 3 días · 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 5 días · Their introduction reconsiders the age of reform in the light of the new historiography of the eighteenth century that shows the extent of governmental and institutional reforms, the vitality of ‘pressure from without’ and the emergence of social criticism in the period caricatured by nineteenth-century reformers as ‘Old ...
Hace 1 día · In the second half of the 18th century, difficulties arose from the shortage of good farmland, periodic money problems, and downward price pressures in the export market. The colonial government from time to time attempted to promote various commodities such as hemp, potash, and lumber as export items to bolster its economy and improve its balance of trade with Great Britain.
Hace 2 días · Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. 1,143,000–3,429,000 (estimated 30–90% of population) [68] [69] 1629–1631 Italian plague (part of the second plague pandemic ) 1629–1631. Italy. Bubonic plague.
Hace 4 días · Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History. London, Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9780815351061; 212pp.; Price: £96.00. At a time when the study of 19th-century history in general is becoming an increasingly marginal pursuit, writing a synthetic volume about Spain—which has never enjoyed much scholarly attention—may seem optimistic.
Hace 5 días · Louis XV (born February 15, 1710, Versailles, France—died May 10, 1774, Versailles) was the king of France from 1715 to 1774, whose ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
Hace 5 días · The essays by Jeremy Black, Rosemary Sweet and Edward Chaney, comprise an introduction to the Grand Tour as a subject, a ‘tour’ through the changing perceptions of Italian cities during the 18th century, and a historiographical account of Grand Tour scholarship since 1900 respectively.
