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Graves' disease
Graves' disease (exophthalmic goitre) (grayvz) n. see thyrotoxicosis. [ R. J. Graves (1797–1853), Irish physician]... Read more
Camperdown
Camperdown , Du. Kamperduin [the dune of Kamp], locality near the village of Kamp, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on the North Sea. In 1797 the British defeated the Dutch in a naval battle off Camperdown. ... Read more
Trumbull
Trumbull town (1990 pop. 32,016), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled in the 1660s, inc. 1797. Largely residential, the town has some light industry. The Nasdaq's data center is there. ... Read more
Bowles, Samuel
Bowles, Samuel (1826–78), son of Samuel Bowles (1797–1851), founder of The Springfield Republican, a spearhead of liberal Republicans. Incisive letters on his travels were reprinted from his paper as Across the Continent (1865) and The Switzerland of America (1869).... Read more
Ceredigion
Ceredigion county, 694 sq mi (1,797 sq km), W Wales. Ceredigion, corresponding to the former county of Cardiganshire, was established in 1996 when the nonmetropolitan county of Dyfed was dissolved. Cardiganshire (Welsh Sir Ceredigion ) had been joined with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in 19... Read more
Spithead
Spithead eastern part of the channel between Hampshire, England, and the Isle of Wight. In 1797 a celebrated wartime mutiny occurred in the fleet stationed at Spithead: the crews sent the officers ashore, ran the ships by committee, and won their demands for better wages and working conditions. ... Read more
Belluno
Belluno , city (1991 pop. 35,572), capital of Belluno prov., Venetia, NE Italy, on the Piave River at the foot of the Dolomites. It is an agricultural and manufacturing center. A Roman town, it later belonged to various lords and was a free commune before voluntarily submitting to Venetian rule (140... Read more
Asher Benjamin
Asher Benjamin 1773-1845, American architect, b. Greenfield, Mass. His Country Builder's Assistant was published in 1797 and The American Builder's Companion, with Daniel Reynard, in 1806. Benjamin designed houses and churches in many New England towns, but his greater influence was through his... Read more
Caleb Bingham
Caleb Bingham , 1757-1817, American textbook writer, b. Salisbury, Conn. He taught until 1796, then became a bookseller and publisher in Boston. He wrote and published some of the earliest grammars, spelling books, and geographies. He was best known for his readers The American Preceptor (1794) an... 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

Encyclopedia entries related to "1797"

Burke, Edmund (1729–1797)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World BURKE, EDMUND (1729 – 1797) BURKE, EDMUND (1729 – 1797), British statesman and orator. Born in Arran Quay, Dublin, Edmund Burke was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied law briefly at the Inns of Court...
Wright, Henry Clarke (1797–1870)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Wright, Henry Clarke (1797 – 1870) Henry Clarke Wright devoted his life to overturning...Lewis. 1980. Childhood, Marriage, and Reform: Henry Clarke Wright 1797 – 1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Walker...
Garinet, Jules (1797-ca. 1877)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Garinet, Jules (1797-ca. 1877) French bibliophile and author of Histoire de la Magie en France (1818), in which he includes a description of...
Frederick William II (Prussia) (1744–1797; Ruled 1786–1797)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World FREDERICK WILLIAM II (PRUSSIA) (1744 – 1797; ruled 1786 – 1797) FREDERICK WILLIAM II (PRUSSIA) (1744 – 1797; ruled 1786 – 1797), king of Prussia. Frederick William II was...
Walpole, Horace (1717–1797)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World WALPOLE, HORACE (1717 – 1797) WALPOLE, HORACE (1717 – 1797), English statesman and man of letters. Although Horace Walpole sat in the House of Commons from 1741 to 1768, he did not pursue an orthodox career as a statesman...
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and priest Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797-1855), who supported the Risorgimento...Serbati was born at Rovereto on March 24, 1797. After the usual studies, he was ordained...F., A short life of Antonio Rosmini, 1797-1855, Stresa, Italy: International...
Napoleon I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of Arcole (Nov., 1796) and Rivoli (Jan., 1797) and the fall of Mantua (Feb., 1797), Bonaparte began to cross the Alps toward Vienna...Paris—the truce of Leoben (Apr., 1797), sealed in October by the Treaty of Campo Formio...
Daniel Drew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Daniel Drew Daniel Drew (1797-1879) was one of America's sensational stock manipulators, speculating particularly in Erie Railroad securities. Born July 29, 1797, at Carmel, N.Y., Daniel Drew Grew up on the family farm. His...
Sir Charles Lyell
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Sir Charles Lyell The Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) established the uniformitarian view of geology. Charles...born at Kinnordy, Forfar, the family estate, on Nov. 14, 1797. During his early childhood, the family moved to Lyndhurst...
Mary Lyon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Mary Lyon Mary Lyon (1797-1849) was the founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and a pioneer...see the birth of his great-granddaughter Mary Lyon on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. As the sixth child of Jemima Shepard...

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Barton, Benjamin Smith
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...largest private natural history library of his time. Between 1797 and 1807 he assembled what was then the largest herbarium of...and from 1802 to 1815 as one of its vice-presidents. In 1797 he married Mary Pennington, by whom he had two children, Thomas...
Anthropology
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by pioneer geologists such as James Hutton (1726 – 1797) and Sir Charles Lyell (1797 – 1875) who laid the groundwork for the study of human evolution. Two major events in the 1850s...
Kidd, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...elected to a student-ship at Christ Church, in 1793, and graduated B.A. in 1797, M .A . in 1800 . He then studied at Guy ’ Hospital, London, from 1797 to 1801, and took his medical degrees at Oxford, M.B. in 1801, and M.D...
La Rive, Charles-Gaspard De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...to Edinburgh to study medicine. He received his doctorate in 1797 with the publication of his thesis, Tentamen physiologicum de...Excepting his work on electricity, his sixteen publications between 1797 and 1833 were predominantly reviews, translations, extracts...
Maclean, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...s Two Lectures on Combustion , published at Philadelphia in 1797, was important in the overthrow of the phlogiston theory. Publication...published work was Two Lectures on Combustion (Philadelphia, 1797). The chief source of biographical information is a memoir...
XYZ Affair
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History XYZ AFFAIR XYZ AFFAIR of 1797 – 1798 led to an undeclared naval war between France and...Charles Pinckney, whom the French refused to accept. As a result, in 1797 Pinckney returned to France accompanied by John Marshall and Elbridge...
Mascheroni, Lorenzo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the twentieth decimal place by Johann von Soldner in 1809. In 1797 Mascheroni was appointed deputy to the legislative body in Milan...Also a poet, Mascheroni dedicated his Geometria del compasso (1797) to Napoleon in verse; his celebrated Invito a Lesbia Cidonia...
Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...fifteenth edition of Linnaeus ’ Systema vegetabilium (1797). He advised F. W. Junghuhn to go to the Dutch East Indies...x2019; s Tentamen dispositionis methodicae fiungorum (Leipzig, 1797) contains the first draft of his classification of fungi. Knowledge...
Camperdown, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Camperdown, battle of, 1797. Camperdown is a coastal village in Holland. Offshore the Dutch fleet...by a British fleet under the command of Admiral Duncan on 11 October 1797. By then the Dutch were effectively under the rule of revolutionary...
Naturphilosophie
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...program Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775 – 1854) initiated with his Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur (1797; Ideas for a philosophy of nature) and to the movement during the German Romantic period that Schelling's work is said to...

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Two Centuries at Mission San Jose, 1797-1997
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1999; ; 699 words ; Two Centuries at Mission San Jose, 1797-1997. Edited by Philip Holmes. (Fremont...of the California missions on June 11, 1797. Dedicated to San Jose, the mission at...book, The History of Mission San Jose, 1797-1835, and Raymond Wood's epilogue...
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835/The Bedesman and the Hodbearer: The Epistolary Friendship of Francis James Child and William Walker
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835 By Mary Ellen Brown Lexington: University Press of Kentucky...ballad editors before Francis James Child was William Motherwell (1797-1835), who preceded Child through many of the rites of passage...
American moral & sentimental magazine (New York, 1797-1798); an annotated catalogue.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 482 words ; ...077346137X American moral & sentimental magazine (New York, 1797-1798); an annotated catalogue. Ed. by Edward W.R. Pitcher...amp; Sentimental Magazine, which was published between July 1797 and May 1998, took on the burden of improving the hearts of...
INN CONTINUES BUSINESS THAT BEGAN IN 1797
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 1/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Maine) 01-01-2004 INN CONTINUES BUSINESS THAT BEGAN IN 1797 Edition: Final Section: Your Neighbors-Lakes Column: Lakes...amp; Doreen Myers How and when did your business begin? From 1797 to the 1950s, the building functioned mostly as an inn. From...
Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x, 262. $45.00. ISBN...the fall of the Venetian Republic at the hands of Napoleon in 1797. Instead, Britons had begun to look to Rome for historical...
The Origins and Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Economic Impact of the First Bank of the United States, 1791-1797. By David Jack Cowen. New York: Garland Press, 2000. 323...In it Cowen focuses on the bank's first six years, 1791 to 1797, and attempts to resurrect the reputation of the First Bank...
MISSION REBUILT BETTER THAN NEW : DOORS AT 1797 SITE STAY OPEN DURING WORK.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/10/1996; 700+ words ; ...citizens to visit its prizes of the past. The construction adds to the mystery of the 199-year-old mission, founded in 1797 by Father Fermin Lasuen, who named it for the canonized 13th-century Spanish king, Ferdinand III. The Federal Emergency...
Coalopolis to Steel City: Perceptions of Newcastle 1797-1859.
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...disadvantage. Meeting Shields' first criterion, Newcastle was `out of the way' geographically in a colony centred on Sydney. In 1797 the presence of coal at the mouth of the Hunter River was noted by Lieutenant John Shortland as he searched for escaped convicts...
The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence, 1797-1837/Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): A Source Book
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; PHILIP OLLESON, ED. The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence, 1797-1837. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 516 + Ixiii, preface, chronology, biographical introduction...
Battle for a stable currency: it all started in 1797
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/27/1997; 249 words ; The pound in your pocket: In 1797 the Bank of England stopped changing its notes into gold following a French invasion scare and later issued pounds 1 and pounds...