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Há 2 dias · Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
Há 1 dia · Frederick the Great. Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
Há 6 dias · 1740s. 1749 in art; 1748 in art – Birth of Jacques-Louis David; 1747 in art; 1746 in art – Birth of Francisco Goya, François-André Vincent; 1745 in art; 1744 in art; 1743 in art; 1742 in art; 1741 in art; 1740 in art; 1730s. 1739 in art; 1738 in art; 1737 in art; 1736 in art; 1735 in art; 1734 in art; 1733 in art – Death of ...
Há 2 dias · Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780198229100; 396pp.; Price: £118.00. Crime and the law, particularly during the period of the Hanoverian Bloody Code, has been a popular area of research for a quarter of a century.
Há 1 dia · In the second and third chapters, Banister turns to a series of military trials that took place in the 1740s and 1750s. The first set, the trials of Admirals Mathews and Lestock in 1746-7, which arose from Lestock’s failure to engage enemy ships in the Mediterranean, highlight the debate over whether soldiers should follow common ...
Há 2 dias · In the early 1740s Benjamin Huntsman developed the crucible process of steelmaking, thereby obtaining a reliable tool steel that by 1830 had earned Sheffield recognition as the world centre of high-grade steel manufacture.
Há 5 dias · New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Excerpt) · SHEC: Resources for Teachers. In the following passage, historian Jill Lepore carefully considers an enslaved man's walk through 1740s Manhattan.
