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Isaac Bickerstaffe
Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1735-c.1812, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Included among his comedies and ballad operas are The Maid of the Mill (produced in 1765) and The Padlock (produced in 1768). ... Read more
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Isaac Bickerstaffe c.1735-c.1812, English dramatist, b. Ireland. Included among his comedies and ballad operas are The Maid of the Mill (produced in 1765) and The Padlock (produced in 1768). ... Read more
John Morgan
John Morgan 1735-89, American physician, b. Philadelphia, grad. College of Philadelphia (now Univ. of Pennsylvania), 1751. He founded, in Philadelphia (1765), the first medical school in the United States. In 1775 he became director-general and physician in chief to the general hospital of the Cont... Read more
autobiography
autobiography Narrative account of a person's life, written by the subject. The modern autobiography has become a distinctive literary form. The first important example of the genre was the 4th-century Confessions of Saint Augustine. The modern, introspective autobiography, dealing frankly with al... Read more
Oliver Holden
Oliver Holden , 1765-1844, American composer and compiler of hymns, b. Shirley, Mass. His popular tune Coronation, to Edward Perronet's hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, first appeared in his Union Harmony (1793). With Samuel Holyoke and Hans Gram he edited The Massachusetts Compiler (... Read more
Giovanni Paolo Pannini
Giovanni Paolo Pannini , 1691-1765, Italian painter. Pannini abandoned the study of architecture for painting, becoming famed for his broad cityscapes, or vidute. His commemorative paintings of public events work tiny human figures into vast urban settings. In his paintings of ruins (e.g., Roman ... Read more
William Allen
William Allen 1704-80, American jurist, b. Philadelphia. He and his father-in-law, Andrew Hamilton, decided the choice of Philadelphia instead of Chester as provincial capital, and he helped finance the building of Independence Hall. Allen was (1750-74) chief justice of Pennsylvania, secured (1763)... Read more
Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson 1732-1819, American political leader, b. Calvert co., Md. A lawyer, he served (1762-73) in the Maryland colonial assembly, where he became prominent in the fight against the Stamp Act (1765). He was a member (1774-77) of the Continental Congress, and he nominated (1775) George Washin... Read more
Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne , 1732-1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed astronomer royal at the Royal Observatory in 1765, he held this post for 46 years. He introduced the determination of longitude by lunar distances into En... Read more
Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy 1729-1811, English antiquary and churchman, b. Shropshire. In 1782 he became Protestant bishop of Dromore (Ireland). He achieved literary fame as the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 vol., 1765), a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads. Its publication ini... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1765"

Stamp Act (1765)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History STAMP ACT (1765) The Stamp Act, passed in March, 1765, was the first direct tax ever placed by the British government...colonies. The Act, which was to take effect November 1, 1765, required an official stamp on about 50 different types...
Stukeley, William (1687-1765)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Stukeley, William (1687-1765) William Stukeley, an antiquarian famous for his research on Stonehenge...Now we see through a glass darkly." He died on February 25, 1765, in Queen Square, Kent, where he had retired. Among the artifacts...
Joseph II (Holy Roman Empire) (1741–1790; Ruled 1765–1790)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...EMPIRE) (1741 – 1790; ruled 1765 – 1790) JOSEPH II (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1741 – 1790; ruled 1765 – 1790), the eldest son of...Francis of Lorraine (ruled 1745 – 1765), succeeded his father on the imperial...
Harrison Gray Otis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Harrison Gray Otis Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), American states man, was one...Harrison Gray Otis was born on Oct. 8, 1765, into a distinguished colonial family...Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765-1848 (2 vols., 1913), was superseded...
Grenville, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...he was responsible for the Stamp Act of 1765, which provoked serious rioting in America...southern colonies and the Mutiny Act (1765) permitting limited quartering of troops...played no part in Grenville's fall in July 1765. The atmosphere of suspicion left by Bute...
Sons of Liberty
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, small groups in each colony—...Stamp Act. Between August and December 1765, the Sons of Liberty forced stamp distributors...Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776 , 1972. Edward Countryman...
printmaking
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...was James McArdell (1728/9–1765). McArdell left for London with Brooks...name. Back in Ireland Michael Ford (d. 1765) took over Brooks's shop in Cork Hill...Dublin in 1760. Dixon moved to London about 1765, and engraved many mezzotints after Reynolds...
Stamp Act
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...ACT The Stamp Act was the English act of 1765 requiring that revenue stamps be affixed...documents in the American colonies. In 1765 the British Parliament, under the leadership...Parliament to repeal the act. In October 1765 nine of the thirteen colonies sent delegates...
Antonio Nariño
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...xF1; o Antonio Nari ñ o (1765-1823) was a Colombian patriot and champion...Born in Bogot á on April 9, 1765, of a well-to-do family, Antonio...Parks, Colombia and the United States, 1765-1934 (1935), and Salvador de Madariaga...
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...he was admitted to the Royal Academy in 1765 on the basis of a serious history painting...and idyllic pastoral scenes. Between 1765 and 1770 Fragonard executed several portraits...have "a little more self-respect." By 1765, indeed, the rococo style was under critical...

Dictionary entries related to "1765"

Stamp Act (22 March 1765)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History STAMP ACT (22 March 1765) Maintaining order in the New World proved...with a special stamp), the Stamp Act of 1765 inflamed the colonists, who were not allowed...That from and after [November 1, 1765, ] there shall be raised, levied, collected...
Patrick Henry's Resolves as Printed in the Maryland Gazette (4 July 1765)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...PRINTED IN THE MARYLAND GAZETTE (4 July 1765) A failure as a shopkeeper and farmer...Colonies the much-detested Stamp Act of 1765. In response, Henry, already famous...the House of Burgesses in Virginia, June 1765. That the first Adventurers & Settlers...
Sons of Liberty (American Revolution)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...members of the town elite. On 14 August 1765 these men staged a public drama beneath...Governor Thomas Hutchinson on 26 August 1765. The New Yorkers, however, disavowed...the rioting in the city through October 1765 to May 1766, including the sacking of...
Velten, Georg Friderick
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...designed part of the Small Hermitage (1765–6) and interiors (1770...be mentioned the Alexander Institute (1765–75) and the Old Hermitage...and the Foundling Hospital, Moscow (1765–74). He designed the granite...
Virginia Resolves
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...adopted by the Virginia House of Burgesses on 30 May 1765 except for the last two, which were considered too...by the legislatures of eight colonies by the end of 1765. Earlier in 1765 the British Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which...
Grenville, George
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...he was responsible for the Stamp Act of 1765, which provoked rioting in America. In...played no part in Grenville's fall in July 1765. The prevailing atmosphere of political...Having avoided dismissal in the spring of 1765, Grenville determined to extort public...
North Carolina
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the colony. The Assembly established the Anglican Church in 1765, but it was never strong. New towns sprang up in the back...parliamentary taxation. When Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, pamphleteer Maurice Moore argued that colonists could be taxed...
Revolution, American
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Britons. Parliament's position, given formal statement in 1765 by Sir William Blackstone, was that it possessed power over...and a great deal of smuggling, it took force. The Stamp Act (1765) tried to tap colonial business by requiring official stamps...
Lieutaud, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Versailles infirmary, as well as attending the autopsies of the son of the dauphin (1761), the dauphin (1765), and the dauphine (1765). He used postmortem materials to study both normal anatomy and pathology; he further undertook to determine...
Stamp Act
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Stamp Act (1765) A British taxation measure, introduced by George GRENVILLE to cover part...representation”, it was met with widespread resistance. In October 1765, nine colonial delegations met at the Stamp Act Congress in New York and...

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Stocks exceed 1765 mark on RTS index for first time since May, Gazprom leads growth.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 11/29/2006; 700+ words ; Stocks exceed 1765 mark on RTS index for first time since...Interfax) - Russian stocks broke past the 1765 mark on the benchmark RTS stock market...MICEX). The RTS index climbed 2.09% to 1765.2, the highest since the index hit 1763...
Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765
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The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910.(Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 by David Matthews. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...s popular and influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry in 1765 is a suitable starting point for David Matthews's informative and...
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Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 5/11/2001; 202 words ; ...RELEASE Friday, May 11, 2001 UPTON TO HOLD HEARING ON H.R. 1765 WASHINGTON (May 11) - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman...2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, to discuss H.R. 1765, a bill to increase penalties for common carrier violations...
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Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...des neulateinischen Dichters Johann Gerhard Joseph von Asten (1765-1831). By Hermann Krussel. Noctes Neolatinae, Neo-Latin...Latin poems by Johann Gerhard Joseph von Asten (v.A.), 1765 to 1831, who lived in Aix-la-Chapelle as an administrative...
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Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765. By Faith Wigzell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...sources used are published editions of fortunetelling texts from 1765 to 1918, particularly the "dreambook," "the quintessential...
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