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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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L’héritier 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...
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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...
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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 .
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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...
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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...
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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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