1782 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1782 - Events. January 7 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of N ...

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John Dickinson was the eldest son of Captain Thomas Dickinson RN and his wife Frances. Thomas Dickinson was the superintendent of the Ordnance Transports at Woolwich. Frances Dickenson was the daughter of a French silk-weaver in Spitalfields. At the age of 15, Dickinson started a seven-year apprenticeship as a stationer with Messrs Harrison and Richardson in London. He was admitted to the Livery of the Stationers' Company in 1 ...

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The Earl of Shelburne The Most Honourable William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne PC, KG (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), also known as the Earl of Shelburne (1761–1784), was a British Whig statesman. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. William Petty was a descendant of the Lords of Kerry (dating from 1181), and his grandfather Thomas Fitzmaurice, who was created Earl of Kerry (1723), married the daughter of Sir William Petty. On the death without issue of Sir William Petty’s sons, the first ...

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Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709 – 1782) was a German chemist and pioneer of analytical chemistry. He discovered the formic and phosphoric acids, and in 1746 he isolated zinc by heating calamine and carbon. In 1747 he announced his discovery of sugar in the beet, from which his student Franz Achard later extracted it in its pure form. Other related archives1709, 1746, 1747, 1782, Franz Achard, analytical chemistry, beet, calamine, carbon, chemist, formic, phosphoric, sugar, zinc

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Hippocamelus bisulcus Molina, 1782 Hippocamelus antisensis |} The Huemul is an endangered mammal of the Cervidae family. The Huemul has a stocky, thick, and short-legged body. This mammal lives at higher altitudes in the summer, then moves down the mountains in the fall and spends the winter in more sheltered forested valleys. Areas with fresh water are preferred. The Huemul is a herbivore which feeds primarily on herbaceous plants and shrubs as well as sedges, lichens, and g ...

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Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. It was composed in French in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley, in which form it was published in 1786. Vathek capitalised on the 18th century obsession with all things Oriental (see Orientalism), which was inspired by Antoine Galland's translation of The Arabian Nights (itself re-translated, into English, i ...

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Daniel Carlsson Solander (February 19, 1733 – May 16, 1782) was a Swedish botanist. Solander was born in Piteå, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran rector. He studied under Linnaeus at Uppsala University and traveled to England in 1760 to promote Linnaeus' new system of classification. He was an assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1763, and elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in the following year. Afterwards he held the posi ...

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Obsolete: inoculation against smallpox using material from a vesicle or lesion of a person with smallpox. Originally practiced widely in India and China then spread to the Middle-East, from where Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1782) brought it back to England in 1721. Other related archivesinoculation, lesion, smallpox, vesicle

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The Bank of North America was chartered in 1781 by the Continental Congress and opened on January 7, 1782, at the prodding of Finance Minister Robert Morris, and was rechartered in 1784. This was thus the first modern United States bank. It was succeeded by the First Bank of the United States. After Robert Morris became superintendent of finance in May 1781 continental currency had ceased. Morris persuaded Congress to charter the bank of North America, the first private commercial bank in the United States. He deposited large quantiti

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Benjamin Thorpe (1782 - July, 1870) was an English Anglo-Saxon scholar. After studying for four years at Copenhagen University, under the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask, he returned to England in 1830, and in 1832 published an English version of Caedmon's metrical paraphrase of portions of the Holy Scriptures, which at once established his reputation as an Anglo-Saxon scholar. In 1834 he published Analecta Anglo-Saxonica, which was for many years the standard textbook of Anglo-Saxon in English, but his best-known work is a Northern Mythology in three volumes (1851). His was the fir ...

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Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782 - September 8, 1854), Italian cardinal and philologist, was born of humble parents at Schilpario in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. In 1799 he entered the Society of Jesus, and in 1804 he became a teacher of classics in the college of Naples. After completing his studies at the Collegium Romanum, he lived for some time at Orvieto, where he was engaged in teaching and palaeographical studies. The political events of 1808 necessitated his withdrawal from Rome (to which he had meanwhile returned) to Milan, where in 181 ...

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The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate (Seceder) and the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenantor) churches in Philadelphia in 1782. Presbyterian pastor Ebenezer Erskine led a group of Christians in separating from the Church of Scotland into a separate Associate Presbytery. Other similar offshoots had formed the Reformed Presbytery. These emigrated to Ireland, and later to th ...

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Sir Charles James Napier (August 10, 1782 – August 29, 1853) was a British general and Commander-in-Chief in India. The city of Napier, New Zealand, is named after him. He is famous for conquering Sindh province now in present-day Pakistan. A quote for which Napier is famous involves a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Th ...

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Charles Simeon (1759 - November 13, 1836), was an English evangelical clergyman. He was born at Reading and educated at Eton College and Cambridge. In 1782 he became fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and took orders, receiving the living of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, in the following year. He was at first so unpopular that services were frequently interrupted, and he was often insulted in the streets. Having overcome public prejudice, he subsequently gained a remarkable and lasting ...

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Campbell County is a county located in the state of Virginia. As of 2000, the population is 51,078. Its county seat is Rustburg6. The county is named after General William Campbell of the Revolutionary War. Campbell is an alcohol prohibition or dry county. Campbell County Virginia - History. Campbell County was established in 1782 from Bedford County. The county was named for Revolutionary War hero, General William Campbell, who is known for the 1780 Battle of King's Mountain. < ...

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Incorporated in 1866, the city of San Buenaventura (usually referred to as Ventura) is the county seat of Ventura County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 100,916. Ventura is accessible via U.S. Highway 101, California State Route 33, and California State Route 126. Ventura California - History. Father Junípero Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura in 1782, forming the basis of what would become the city. In 1841, Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado gr ...

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William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot (16 May 1710 – 27 April 1782) was an English nobleman. Talbot earned the title of Baron Talbot of Hensol at his father's death in 1737. He was Lord High Steward at King George III's coronation, and became a member of the Privy Council in 1761. Earls in the Peerage of England. He served from then until his death as Lord Steward of the Household. At his death, the earldom became ...

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William Miller (1782 - 1849) was an American Baptist preacher, hence: Millerists, Millerites. He is credited with the beginning of the Adventist movement of the 1830s and 1840s in North America. Among his spiritual heirs are two major religious denominations today: Seventh-day Adventism and Jehovah's Witnesses. Miller began to preach in 1831. Based on Daniel 8-9, Miller believed that 2,300 years would pass from the time of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem to the Second Coming of Jesus. The commandment was given ...

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On August 1, 1746 the Act of Proscription (19 Geo. 2, c. 39) came into effect in Scotland. This was part of a series of efforts to assimilate the unruly Scottish Highlands while ending their ability to revolt, and the first of the 'King's laws' which sought to crush the Clan system in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 'Forty-Five. These laws were finally repealed in 1782. The British forces under the Duke of Cumberland had been brutal in putting down any hint of Jacobite resistance among Highlanders, and the Act can be seen as Parliament asserting the supremacy of ...

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