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1758 in art 1758 in literature 1758 in music 1758 in science List of state leaders in 1758 List of religious leaders in 1758 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). 1758 - Events. April 29 - Battle of the Bay of Bengal - A French fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras. May 21 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French ...

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1686 - Events. The League of Augsburg is founded. Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire. September 2 The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from the Ottoman Turkish rule that leads to the end of Turkish rule in Hungary during the subsequent years. New York City and Albany, New York are granted city charters by the colonial governor. A hurricane saves Charleston from attack by Spanish vessels. Including:

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Conservative Christianity - Scholars theologians and writers. Contemporary Conservative Protestant scholars and theologians include: Norman Geisler, FF Bruce, Gary Habermas, N.T. Wright, Kenneth Kitchen, Bruce Metzger, R. C. Sproul, Edwin M. Yamauchi, Merrill Unger, John Warwick Montgomery, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, and Bryant G. Wood. Popular conservative Protestant writers and conservative Christian apologetist include: Josh McDowell ...

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Conservative Christianity, Conservative Christianity - Introduction, Conservative Christianity - Conservative Protestantism, Conservative Christianity - Scholars theologians and writers, Conservative Christianity - Conservative Roman Catholicism, Conservative Christianity - Opus Dei

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The collective term Austrian Crown Jewels or insignia (de: Insignien und Kleinodien) denotes the regalia and vestments worn by the Holy Roman Emperor, and later the Austrian Emperor during the coronation ceremony and at various other state functions. The term refers to the following objects: the crowns, sceptres, orbs, swords, rings, crosses, holy relics, and the royal robes, as well ...

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• Austrian Crown Jewels - The Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
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For a Greek place of this name, see Astakos Astacus astacus Astacus leptodactylus Astacus pachypus Astacus is a genus of crayfish found in Europe and western Asia, comprising three species: Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1758), the noble crayfish, European crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish Astacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823), the Danube crayfish or Galician crayfish

Early history Sukhothai kingdom Ayutthaya kingdom 1768–1932 1932–1973 1973– Regional histories: Srivijaya Haripunchai Lannathai History of Isan The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai kingdom that existed from the 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya (อยุธยา) as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai, 640 km to the north, in 1376. Over the next four centuries the kingdom expanded to ...

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Atta is a genus of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae. Atta - Overview. Commonly known as "Leaf-cutter ants" they comprise one of the two genera of advanced attines within the tribe Attini, along with Acromyrmex spp. Atta is one of the most spectacular of the attines, and colonies can comprise in excess of one million individuals. Atta exhibits a high degree of polymorphism, five castes being present in esablished colonies - minims (or 'garden ants'), minors, mediae and ...

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Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740 – August 11, 1778), Anglican divine, was born at Farnham, Surrey, and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Dublin. Although originally a follower of Wesley, in 1758 he adopted extreme Calvinist opinions. He was ordained in 1762 and became vicar of Harpford with Fenn-Ottery, Devon, in 1766. In 1768 he exchanged to the living of Broadhembury, Devon. He is chiefly known as a writer of hymns and poems, including "Rock of Ages", and the collections entitled Poems on Sac ...

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August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. August 25 - Events. 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. 1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal. 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded. 1758 - Seven Years ...

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August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. August 9 - Events. 48 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. AD 378 - Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with 2/3 of his army. 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a ...

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. August 10 - Events. 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...

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August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. August 22 - Events. 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses 1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immi ...

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April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. April 30 - Events. 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule. 711 - Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). 1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, m ...

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Ali Pasha Tepelenë, commonly known as Ali Pasha, (1741 – January 24, 1822) was the military ruler (pasha) of a large area of the Ottoman Empire's European territories. Known as the Lion of Ioánnina (after his capital in the Greek town of Ioánnina), he achieved a notorious reputation as a cruel and bloodthirsty tyrant. Ali Pasha - The rise of Ali Pasha. Ali was born into a powerful clan in the Albanian town of Tepelenë in 1744, where his father Veli was bey (leader). The family lost much ...

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Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 – January 7, 1758), Scottish poet, was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire to John Ramsay, superintendent of Lord Hopetoun's lead-mines and his wife, Alice Bower, a native of Derbyshire. He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh. He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances. T ...

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Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758 - 10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the “father of Scottish landscape painting". Detail of Edinburgh Castle and Nor'Loch Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the Trustees’ Academy under Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a coachbuilder, he, at the age of sixteen, attracted the attention of Allan Ramsay, who took the youth with him to London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his ...

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Spheniscus demersus (Linnaeus, 1758) The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the Jackass Penguin (after its donkey-like braying call), is found on the south-western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The largest colony is on Dyer Island, near Kleinbaai. The only penguin colonies still in existence on the African mainland are near Cape Town at Boulde ...

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(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia) 2nd millennium - Events. European crusades in Middle East Mongol Empires in Asia The Black Death The Renaissance in Europe The Protestant Reformation The agricultural and industrial revolutions The rise of nationalism and the nation state European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization European colonization and decolonization in Afri ...

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The Right Honourable Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an Englishman, and a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. He is famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he lost his life. He became the greatest naval hero in the history of the United Kingdom, eclipsing Admiral Robert Blake in fame, and is one of the most famous naval commanders in world history. His biography by the poet Robert Southey appeared in 1 ...

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Allegheny County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population is 1,281,666. The county seat is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The county forms the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. Allegheny County Pennsylvania - History. Before it was settled by Europeans, the county was mostly wilderness and uninhabited except for wandering Indians such as the Iroquois, who were the largest tribe in the area. The Allegheny River, Mountains, and County get their name f ...

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