1715 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1715 - Events. July 24 - Spanish treasure fleet of ten ships under admiral Ubilla leave Havana, Cuba for Spain. Three days later nine of them sink in a storm off the co ...

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The causes of the French Revolution, the uprising which brought the regime of King Louis XVI to an end, were manifold. France in 1789 was one of the richest and most powerful nations in Europe; only in Great Britain and the Netherlands did the common people have more freedom and less chance of arbitrary punishment. Nevertheless, the ancien régime was brought down, partly by its own rigidity in the face of a changing world, partly by the ambitions of a rising bourgeoisie, allied with aggrieved peasants and wage-earners and with ...

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• Causes of the French Revolution - Debt
• Causes of the French Revolution - Taxation
• Causes of the French Revolution - Attempts at reforms
• Causes of the French Revolution - The nobility's reaction
• Causes of the French Revolution - Famine

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The Right Reverend William Talbot (1658–October 10, 1730) was Bishop of Oxford from 1699 to 1715, Bishop of Salisbury from 1715 to 1722 and Bishop of Durham from 1722 to 1730. Talbot married Catherine King and they had three children: Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot (c. 1685–1737) Venerable Edward Talbot (c. 1693–1720), Archdeacon of Berkshire. Maj-Gen ...

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Colley Cibber (June 11, 1671 – November 12, 1757) was an English playwright, actor, and Poet Laureate. His status as the first in a long line of actor-managers established his importance in theater history, and his colorful memoir (Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber) was key in starting the British tradition of rambling autobiographical style. Cibber's works provide valuable documentation of London stage practices for today's historians, and two of his original comedies are particularly useful records of the chan ...

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• Colley Cibber - Love's Last Shift
• Colley Cibber - The Careless Husband
• Colley Cibber - Other plays
• Colley Cibber - Cibber as manager
• Colley Cibber - Cibber as poet
• Colley Cibber - Cibber as dunce
• Colley Cibber - Pamphlet wars
• Colley Cibber - The King of Dunces
• Colley Cibber - Plays
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While the Whigs (along with the Tories) are often described as one of the two political parties in late 17th to mid 19th century Great Britain, it is more accurate to describe them as loose political groupings or tendencies. The formal name of the Whigs was originally the Country Party (as opposed to the Tories, the Court Party); this was changed in the 19th Century to the Liberal Party (and the Tories to the Conservative Party). Whig - Name. The term Whig originates in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ...

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The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (named The Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch) before 1931) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. Part of the Scottish Division, it is the senior regiment of highlanders. The regiment's name comes from the extremely dark tartan that they wear and from its role to "watch" the Highlands. 'Black Watch' was originally just a nickname for the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, but was used more and more so that, in 1881, when the 42nd amalgamated with the 73rd Foot, the new ...

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The Battle of Preston (9 November–14 November 1715), also refered to as the Preston Fight, was fought during the Jacobite Rising of 1715 (often referred to as the First Jacobite Rising, or Rebellion by supporters of the Hanoverian government). The Jacobites moved south into England with little opposition, and by the time they reached Preston in Lancashire had grown to about 4,000 in numbe ...

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William Watson (3 April 1715 – 10 May 1787) was an English physician and scientist who was born and died in London. His early work was in botany, and he helped to introduce the work of Carolus Linnaeus into England. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1741 and vice president in 1772. In 1746 he showed that the capacity of the Leyden jar could be increased by coating it inside and out with lead foil. In the same year he proposed that the two types of electricity—vitreous and resinous—posited by DuFay were actually a ...

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The House of Bourbon is an important European royal house. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty held thrones in Spain and southern Italy; other Bourbons held important duchies. Spain currently has a Bourbon monarch. Bourbon monarchs ruled Navarre (from 1555) and France (from 1589 until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the sen ...

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• House of Bourbon - The rise of Henry IV
• House of Bourbon - The Early Bourbon Kings of France
• House of Bourbon - Early Bourbons of Spain and Italy
• House of Bourbon - The Bourbons During the French Revolution
• House of Bourbon - The Bourbon Restoration in France and its aftermath
• House of Bourbon - Later Bourbon monarchs outside France
• House of Bourbon - List of Bourbon rulers
• House of Bourbon - Monarchs of France
• House of Bourbon - Monarchs of Spain
• House of Bourbon - Other signifigant Bourbon branches

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This is a list of the counts of Burgundy (i.e., of the region known as "Franche-Comté", not to be confused with the Duchy of Burgundy) from 867 to 1678. Odo (count of Mâcon, Dijon, Autun, and Burgundy, 867-870) Rodfried (870-895) Hugh the Black (921-952) Otto William (986-1026) Renaud I (1026-1057) William I the Great (1057-1087, also count of Mâcon, 1078-1085 Renaud II (1087-1097, also count of Mâcon, 1085) Stephen I (titular count, 1097-1102) Re ...

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Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He was born in the town of Horsens in Denmark and died at Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. After a voyage to the East Indies, he joined the Russian Navy in 1703, serving in the Baltic Fleet during the Great Northern War. In 1710–1712 he served in the Azov Sea Fleet in Taganro ...

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British cabinet minister responsible for all financial matters. Often simply called The Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister for Finance or Secretary of the Treasury in other jurisdictions. The position is considered one of the four great offices of state. The Chancellor holds third oldest major state office in English and United Kingdom history, one which originally carried responsibility f ...

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Braemar (Scottish Gaelic, Braigh Mhàrr) is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, around 58 miles west of Aberdeen, the closest significantly-sized settlement to the upper course of the River Dee. Braemar holds an annual Highland Games Gathering in late summer, traditionally attended by the British Royal Family. Braemar, or Braigh Mharr in Gaelic (not spoken locally since about 1900), is not only redolent with Scottish history, but is a land of superlatives. It is the highest and most mountainous parish in the UK, ...

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Baron Baltimore is a defunct title in the Peerage of Ireland. The barony was created in 1625 and became extinct following the death of the sixth baron in 1771. The title was held by several members of the Calvert family who were the proprietors of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and the Province of Maryland, later the U.S. state of Maryland. In the context of United States history, the name Lord Baltimore usually refers to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore after whom the city of Baltimore, Maryland is named. His younger broth ...

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Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS (16 April 1661–19 May 1715) was a British poet and statesman. Charles Montagu 1st Earl of Halifax - Early Life. He was born at Horton, in Northamptonshire, the son of George Montagu, fifth son of the 1st Earl of Manchester. He was educated first in the country, and then removed to Westminster, where, in 1677, he was chosen as a King's Scholar. It was at this time he contracted a very intimate friendship with George Stepney. In 1682, when Ste ...

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The Chinese Rites controversy was a dispute within the Catholic Church in the early 18th century about whether Chinese folk religion rites and offerings to the emperor constituted idolatry or not. Pope Clement XI decided in favor of the Dominicans (who argued that Chinese folk religion and offerings to the emperor were incompatible with Catholicism), which greatly reduced Catholic missionary activity in China. At the time, there was fascination among European intellectuals with Chinese culture, Confucianism, and the Chinese language. Some even pr ...

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Clan MacDonell of Glengarry is a Scottish clan, sometimes considered a branch of Clan Donald, taking its name from Glen Garry where the river Garry runs eastwards through Loch Garry to join the Great Glen about 16 miles (25 km) north of Fort William. The principal families descended from the house of Glengarry were the McDonnells of Barrisdale, in Knoydart, Greenfield, and Lundie. Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Origin of the Name. Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Gaelic Names.

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• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Pipe Music
• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Tartans
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• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Clan Seat
• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - History
• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Jacobite Risings
• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Colonel Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry
• Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry - Bishop Alexander MacDonell

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Cao Xueqin (Chinese: 曹雪芹; Hanyu Pinyin: Cáo Xuěqín) (? 1715 - c. 1763) is the author of famous Chinese work Dream of the Red Chamber. His given name was Cao Zhan (曹霑). A Han Chinese clan assimilated into Manchurian ethnicity, Cao’s family had become so rich as to be able to play host four times to the Emperor Kangxi in his itinerant trips down south in Nanjing. In 1727 they suffered the first of a series of reversals to their fortunes that saw the family properties confisca ...

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Clare College is a college of the University of Cambridge, the second oldest surviving college after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and also for its gardens, which form part of what is known as the Backs (essentially the rear part of colleges which are next to the River Cam). The current Master is Anthony (Tony) J Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History. Clare College Cambridge - History. The college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard de Bad ...

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August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. August 3 - Events. 8 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. 435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of the Christological "heresy" (at the time) known as Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail f ...

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