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Charles Dibdin
Charles Dibdin 1745-1814, English songwriter and theatrical entrepreneur. His best-known songs are from his ballad operas, such as The Bells of Aberdovey from Liberty Hall (1785) and To Bachelors' Hall and Tom Bowling from The Oddities (1789). ... Read more
University of Georgia
University of Georgia at Athens, Ga.; land-grant and state-supported; coeducational; chartered 1785 as the first state-supported university in the United States, opened 1801. The university's library contains the DeRenne and Moore collections of Georgiana and a large mathematics collection. ... Read more
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier
Sir William Francis Patrick Napier 1785-1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier . He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828-40). ... Read more
John Wolcot
John Wolcot , pseud. Peter Pindar, 1738-1819, English poet. He wrote several satires, notably Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians (1782-83), Bozzy and Piozzi (1786), and The Lousiad (1785-95). Bibliography: See study by R. L. Vales (1973). ... Read more
Torbern Olof Bergman
Torbern Olof Bergman , 1735-84, Swedish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. A professor at the Univ. of Uppsala from 1758, he developed a theory of chemical affinity, made improvements in the methods of chemical analysis and in the classification of rocks, and did important research in crystallogr... Read more
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright 1743-1823, English inventor and clergyman. He was the inventor of an imperfect power loom that, when finally patented (1785), became the parent of the modern loom. It was the first machine to make practical the weaving of wide cotton cloth. A few of Cartwright's many other inventi... Read more
David Dale
David Dale 1739-1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist. In 1785 he built New Lanark, a cotton mill and model community that provided his employees with good housing and schools. He was succeeded at New Lanark by his son-in-law, Robert Owen , who later made the community world famous... Read more
William Few
William Few 1748-1828, political leader in the American Revolution, b. near Baltimore. He was raised in North Carolina and was involved in the Regulator movement there. He later moved to Georgia. Few participated in partisan activities in the American Revolution, served in the Continental Congres... Read more
Nachman Krochmal
Nachman Krochmal , 1785-1840, Jewish secular historian and writer, b. Galicia. He was a leader in the movement of the Jewish enlightenment and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship. He applied his synthesis of religion and philosophy to the writing and teaching of Jewish history. His most important... Read more
Lanark
Lanark , town (1991 pop. 9,778), South Lanarkshire, S central Scotland, on the Clyde River. It has cattle markets and textile mills. There are hydroelectric power stations at the Falls of Clyde, just S of Lanark. Sir William Wallace 's first act of rebellion (1297) was the murder of the English she... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1785"

Land Ordinance of 1785
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785 The Land Ordinance of 1785 was the second of three land ordinances passed by the Confederation...in the area. The following year, in the Land Ordinance of 1785, Jefferson's committee established the way in which the territory...
Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819) and Matthew (1794–1858)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785–1819) and Matthew (1794–1858), naval officers.Born in Rhode Island, the sons of Captain Christopher...
Daniel Drake
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Drake The American physician Daniel Drake (1785-1852) was one of the founders of the...Valley. Daniel Drake was born on Oct. 20, 1785, near Plainfield, N.J. His family...Drake is Emmet F. Horine, Daniel Drake, 1785-1852: Pioneer Physician of the Midwest...
Adam Sedgwick
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Sedgwick The English geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was the founder of the Cambrian...Adam Sedgwick was born on March 22, 1785, at Dent in his ancestral region of the...Adam Sedgwick, geologist and dalesman, 1785-1873: a biography in twelve themes...
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Franc¸ois
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Belgium, Poland, Austria, and the Netherlands. On January 7, 1785, Blanchard crossed the English Channel by balloon with American...international air mail, which they delivered successfully. In August of 1785, Blanchard became the first aeronaut to travel more than 200...
José Miguel Carrera
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography José Miguel Carrera José Miguel Carrera (1785-1821), a Chilean revolutionary, was one of the leaders in...José Miguel Carrera was born in Santiago on Oct. 15, 1785, into a wealthy and socially eminent family. Sent to Spain...
John Hancock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He was forced to surrender £16, 000 in 1777. In 1785 Hancock admitted that he still owed his alma mater £...impending financial crisis coincided with his voluntary retirement in 1785. Though he claimed that his retirement was based on illness...
James Kent
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Poughkeepsie, N.Y., attorney, he was admitted to the bar in 1785. In April he married Elizabeth Bailey; it was a most happy...Government," and his career showed this concept to be valid. From 1785 to 1793 Kent practiced in Poughkeepsie. He served two consecutive...
Alessandro Manzoni
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) wrote I promessi sposi, or The Betrothed, Italy's...romanticism. Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan on March 7, 1785. His parents, elderly Count Pietro and young Giulia, separated...
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...began work on Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien, which appeared in 1785 and in its revised form in 1787. In 1784 Schiller completed...which appeared in his Rheinische Thalia, a literary journal, in 1785. The second issue of Thaliacontained Schiller's hymn An die...

Dictionary entries related to "1785"

Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787 ORDINANCES OF 1784, 1785, AND 1787. In a series of ordinances enacted between 1784...The ordinance, eventually adopted by Congress on 20 May 1785, incorporated the prior survey principle, dividing the...
Pilatre De Rozier, Jean François
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Wimille, near Boulogne. France, 15 June 1785) education, aeronautics . The son of...but soon moved to the rue de Valois. By 1785 it had 700 members, including the academicians...English Channel, and early in January 1785 he was at English Channel, and early in...
Land Grants
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...that the public lands were established in 1785 through the end of the twentieth century...undeveloped real estate parcel. First, from 1785 through 1819, the Congress passed a set...historical eras. During the first era, between 1785 and 1820, for example, the Congress legislated...
Legendre, Adrien-Marie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Recueil des savants é trangers (1785). He also submitted to Laplace essays...xE9; termin é e ” (1785) contains, among other things, the demonstration...section he was promoted to associ é (1785). In 1787, along with Cassini IV and...
Lhéritier De Brutelle, Charles Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and the group around the Encyclop é die. In 1785 L ’ H é ritier started his botanical...et iconibus illustravit, 9 fascs . (Paris, 1784-1785 [published 1785-1805]); Sertum anglicum, seu plantae rariores...
Western Lands
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Union in 1791 as the state of Kentucky. In 1785 Massachusetts ceded its claim to land in...Confederation with only political jurisdiction. In 1785 the Confederation adopted a land ordinance...Northwest Territory ; Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787 ; Western Reserve ; Yazoo Fraud...
Geographer's Line
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...States, according to the Ordinance of 1785. The line was to begin at the point at...survey, begun under many difficulties in 1785 – 86, caused it to deviate one...Northwest Territory ; Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787 ; Western Lands .
Land Acts
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Confederation government. The Confederation Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, putting government in the land disposal business. The Land Ordinance of 1785 set the pattern for public land distribution. Public land was to be surveyed...
Carangeot, Arnould
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1784) and Carangeot wrote the text of volumes IV through VIII (1785 – 1793). Although Carangeot remained in Paris throughoutthe...avoided all and any participationin public life. On 10 August 1785 he was elected anassociate member of the Acad é mie de...
Marum, Martin (Martinus) van
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Verhandelingen uitgeven door Teyler ’ s tweede Genootschap (1785, 1787, 1795). These experiments were greatly admired and...From 1782 van Marum regularly made trips abroad. In Paris in 1785 he met Lavoisier and saw his assistants at work. After his return...

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British Satire 1785-1840.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Jones, Consulting Ed., British Satire 1785-1840 (Pickering and Chatto 2003) 5...Thomas Moore ed. Jane Moore British Satire 1785-1840 is a mould-breaking resource for...the valuable lessons which Radical Satire 1785-1840 teaches is that popular satire was...
DINING OUT: ; Tavern 1785 offers fine food experience in historic town
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 10/24/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...that we should try Lewisburg's Tavern 1785, an excellent place for great food. We...invited six people to dinner at Tavern 1785 on West Washington Street. On that late...and horseradish creme fraiche. Tavern 1785 has an extensive wine list. Hess Chardonnay...
Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925
Newspaper article from: Domes; 7/31/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925 Few books have been as eagerly anticipated...Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925 (Brooklyn Museum of Art/I.B...painting of the Qajar period in Iran (1785-1925) with more than one hundred works...
ComReg offers 1785-1805MHz licence to Personal Broadband UK.(Ireland's Commission for Communications Regulation)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Telecomworldwire; 4/30/2007; 700+ words ; ...TELECOMWORLDWIRE-30 April 2007-ComReg offers 1785-1805MHz licence to Personal Broadband...UK Ltd, a broadband operator, for the 1785-1805MHz spectrum band, by the Commission...operator was the winner of the auction for the 1785-1805MHz spectrum, which was the first...
Relaciones talla-peso del barbul (Pimelodus clarias f.c. Bloch, 1785) en la cuenca del rio Sinu, Colombia.
Magazine article from: Revista MVZ (Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia); 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...BARBUL (Pimelodus clarias f.c. Bloch, 1785) IN SINU RIVER BASIN, COLOMBIA RESUMEN...Barbul (Pimelodus clarias f.c. Bloch, 1785) colectados entre enero 2000 y diciembre...Barbul (Pimelodus clarias f.c. Bloch, 1785) collected between january 2000 and december...
"Face Zion Forward": First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...First writers of the black Atlantic, 1785-1798. Edited by JOANNA BROOKS and JOHN...First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798, edited by Joanna Brooks and John...Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant (London, 1785), Marrant's A Sermon Preached on the...
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647-1785.(France and French Cultural Areas)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647-1785. By Downing A. Thomas. (Cambridge Studies...of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647-1785 covers some of the same ground from the...Paris: de l'imprimerie de Monsieur, 1785; reprint, Geneve: Slatkine, 1970...
McMichael, Francis Andrew: Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785-1810 Athens: University of Georgia Press...cultural factors in Spanish West Florida in 1785-1810. One of the book's central themes...history, the West Florida story from 1785 to 1810 is useful and enlightening. McMichael...
An early collection of the red alga Mikamiella ruprechtiana made by Carl Merck on the Billings Expedition to Alaska (1785-94).
Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...collector on the Billings Expedition (1785-94). This marine alga, given the manuscript...botanique de l'expedition Billings (1785-1794). Cette algue marine, que Tilesius...Geographical and Astronomical Expedition" of 1785-94 (Hulten, 1940). Captain Joseph...
Security Council authorizes European Union force in Bosnia and Herzegovina; for further year, unanimously adopting resolution 1785 (2007).
M2 Presswire; 11/22/2007; 700+ words ; ...year, unanimously adopting resolution 1785 (2007)(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...1995. Unanimously adopting resolution 1785 (2007), the Council also authorized...15 a.m. The full text of resolution 1785 (2007) reads as follows: "The Security...