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1720 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1720 - Events. January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Sto ...

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1800 - Ongoing events. French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1800 - Events. March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope as Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII is ordained. April 24 - U.S. Library of Congress founded. May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January ...

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Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה "reception", Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Kaballah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, "soul" of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature. Kabbalah is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, God's creation of the universe and the laws of nature, and the path by whic ...

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Field Marshal and Count Arvid Bernhard Horn (April 6, 1664 – April 17, 1742) was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish empire during the period of Sweden-Finland. He was born in Vuorentaka, Finland, of a noble but indigent Horn family. Arvid Horn - Soldier and diplomat. After completing his studies at Åbo, he entered the Swedish Army and served for several years in the Netherlands, in Hungary under Prince Eugene, and in Flanders under Wa ...

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August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. August 1 - Events. 527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor. 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1498 - Christop ...

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August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. August 12 - Events. 490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invasion army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 Septe ...

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August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 136 days remaining. August 17 - Events. 1427 - First band of gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris 1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1850 - Argentine's War of Independence hero, Genera ...

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The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library of France. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. Bibliothèque nationale de France - History. The National Library of France traces its origin to the royal library founded at the Louvre by Charles V in 1368. It expanded under Louis XIV and opened to the public in 1720. Following the series of regime changes in France, it became the Imperial National Library and in 1868 was moved to newl ...

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April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining. April 14 - Events. 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed. AD 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne. 1028 - Henry III, son of Conra ...

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April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). There are 253 days remaining. April 22 - Events. 1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. 1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father. 1529 - Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas. < ...

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April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). There are 252 days remaining. April 23 - Events. 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. 1014 - Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's ...

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Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 - January 27, 1732) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori - Life. The available source materials on Cristofori's life include his birth and death records, two wills, the bills he submitted to his employers, and a single interview done by Scipione Maffei. From the latter, we have both Maffei's notes and the published journal article. Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic ...

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April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). There are 254 days remaining. April 21 - Events. 753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional). 1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. 1863 - B ...

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Rt Rev Beilby Porteus, DD, Bishop of Chester and London (May 8, 1731 – May 13, 1809) was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist. Beilby Porteus was the son of Robert Porteus, a native of Virginia, US who had returned to England in 1720. Educated at York and Ripon, he was a classics scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge University, becoming a fellow in 1752. In 1759 he won the Seatonian Prize for his poem Death: A Poetical Essay, a work for which he is still remembered. He was ordained as a priest in 1757, and by 1762 had been appointed domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbisho ...

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Barre is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,113. For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Barre, please see the article Barre (CDP), Massachusetts. Barre Massachusetts - History. Barre was first settled in 1720 and was officially incorporated in 1774. Barre Massachusetts - Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of ...

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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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2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. April 2 - Events. 69 - Galba, governor of Spain, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Caesar and Augustus. 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to ...

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August III the Saxon or the Corpulent (Polish: August III Sas, August III Gruby; 1696-1763) was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1734-1763) and Elector of Saxony (1733-1763, as Friedrich August II). August III was born in Dresden in 1696, son of August II the Strong, Imperial Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was groomed to succeed his father as King of the Polish-Li ...

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August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. August 31 - Events. 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia. 1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his bro ...

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