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5 days ago · 13 June 1739. An Act for granting a Liberty to carry Sugars, of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America, from the said Colonies directly to Foreign Parts, in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law. (Repealed by Prize Act 1794) Bath Hospital Act 1738.
May 20, 2024 · The War of the Austrian Succession [f] was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War, and the First and Second Silesian Wars .
3 days ago · Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America. Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German ...
4 days ago · Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is ...
4 days ago · Southern South Carolina. Spanish Florida ( Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba, the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Apr 30, 2024 · American Revolution. John Montagu, 4th earl of Sandwich (born November 13, 1718—died April 30, 1792, London, England) was a British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution (1776–81) and the man for whom the sandwich was named. Having succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, the 3rd earl, in 1729, he studied at Eton and ...
Apr 30, 2024 · William Hewson (born Nov. 14, 1739, Hexham, Northumberland, Eng.—died May 1, 1774, London) was a British anatomist and physiologist who described blood coagulation and isolated a key protein in the coagulation process, fibrinogen, which he called coagulable lymph. He also investigated the structure of the lymphatic system and described red ...
