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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"

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...
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...
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...the Spanish at Cape St Vincent in February 1797, and the Dutch at Camperdown in October 1797 confirmed Britain's mastery of the seas. The...1794. A French-backed rebellion in Ireland 1797–8 was also violently suppressed...
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...xFC; cke, oder Ehestand, Tod und Hochzeit des Armenadvokaten Siebenk ä s (1796/1797), Der Jubelsenior (1797), and Das Kampaner Thal (1797). After the death of his mother (1797), Jean Paul left Hof for Leipzig, Weimar, Berlin...
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...
Banneker, Benjamin
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...scientist and inventor From 1792 through 1797 Benjamin Banneker, an African American...were published every year from 1792 until 1797. Communications with Thomas Jefferson...Banneker's almanacs appeared for the year 1797, because of lessening interest in the...
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...

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Gilly, David
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...German architectural journals, published in Berlin from 1797 to 1806. He designed Schloss Paretz (1796–...severe Neo-classical style. Bibliography D. Gilly (1797, 1797–8); D. Gilly (ed.)1797–...
Français, François (Joseph)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...to the army as an officer until October 1797, when he was named professor of mathematics...xC9; cole Polytechnique on 30 December 1797, and from there he went, in March 1800...the Acad é mie des Sciences in 1797, is mentioned by S. F. Lacroix ( Trait...
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...the Spanish at Cape St Vincent in February 1797, and the Dutch at Camperdown in October 1797 confirmed Britain's mastery of the seas. In...peace by the treaty of Campo Formio in October 1797, ended the first coalition. This was followed...
Nelson, Horatio
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...admiralship for his nephew (attained February 1797), while Hood, a friend of Suckling...Mediterranean, broken only by sick leave September 1797 to March 1798, under Hood, Hotham, Jervis...internal rupture at St Vincent February 1797, loss of his right arm at Tenerife the...
Papal States, Diplomatic Service To
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...diplomatic ties to the papal states from 1797 to 1867. Congress established a consulate in Rome in 1797 to facilitate commercial and legal transactions...American Government with the Papal States from 1797 to 1867." Master's thesis, St. John...
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Prussian medical bureacracy from assessor (1782-1797) to councillor (1797-1799), to high councillor (1799-1817). Meanwhile...titanium (1792), strontium (1793,) chromium (1797), mellitic acid (1799), and cerium (1803) and...
Gentz, Heinrich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Architect) in Berlin (1795), and won praise for his entry to the 1797 competition for a monument to King Frederick the Great of Prussia...Greek Doric mausoleum for the beloved Queen Luise of Prussia (1797–1810), Charlottenburg (also 1810). Bibliography...
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...x2014;reigned 1740–86), exhibited in Berlin in 1797, fuelled the young Schinkel's ambition to become an architect...and Schinkel, with Gentz and King Friedrich Wilhelm III (1797–1840), designed the Queen's Greek Doric mausoleum...
Nore mutiny
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Nore mutiny (May 1797) A mutiny by sailors of the British navy stationed at the Nore anchorage in the Thames estuary. Encouraged...the mutiny probably contributed to the decisive defeat of Grey's parliamentary reform motion of May 1797.
Australia, Commonwealth of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...the colony was not self‐sufficient in wheat until 1797. However, the crossing of the Blue Mountains behind Sydney...bearing merino sheep (first imported from the Cape Colony in 1797) spread out and by 1880 it supported over 60 million sheep...

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Registration of LG96-1797 soybean germplasm.(REGISTRATIONS OF GERMPLASMS)
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...L.) Merr.] germplasm line LG96-1797 (Reg. no. GP-316, PI 639282) was...commercially used gene pool in the USA. LG96-1797 is an [F.sub.6] selection from LG89...15 or PI 438206 as a progenitor. LG96-1797 was developed through an early generation...
Privately Funded and Built U.S. Warships in the Quasi-War of 1797-1801
Magazine article from: The Independent Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Charleston, South Carolina, on October 17, 1797.3 In belated response to the accelerating...Early in the Quasi-War with France (1797-1801), citizens in a number of American...take action. From October 1796 to June 1797, the French captured 316 U.S. vessels...
The Meeks cabinetmaking firm in New York City: Part I, 1797-1835.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...by three generations of the family from 1797 until 1869, was one of the principal furniture...be identified, namely the period from 1797 until 1828, when Joseph Meeks (Pl. I) ran the firm on his own (except for 1797-1800, when he was in partnership with...
Privately funded and built U.S. warships in the Quasi-War of 1797-1801.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Charleston, South Carolina, on October 17, 1797. (3) In belated response to the accelerating...Early in the Quasi-War with France (1797-1801), citizens in a number of American...take action. From October 1796 to June 1797, the French captured 316 U.S. vessels...
How England first saw Bonaparte: a painting by Francesco Cossia commissioned by Maria Cosway in 1797 was the first true portrait of Napoleon to be seen in England. It was acquired by Sir John Soane, who, as Xavier F. Salomon and Christopher Woodward explain, juxtaposed it with a miniature by Isabey in a graphic comparison of the youthful hero with the tyrannical dicatator.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Francesco Cossia painted in the spring of 1797 (Fig. 2) and today in the Breakfast...arrived at her house on Oxford Street in 1797 it was the first time anyone in Britain...armies dispatched from Austria. By April 1797 he was within ninety miles of Vienna and...
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...
Mutiny in the Royal Navy at Spithead. (England)(April 15, 1797)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/1997; 700+ words ; The outbreak in April 1797 of mutiny in Britain's Channel fleet...and a financial crisis that led them in 1797 temporarily to suspend payments in gold...navy three months later to the attack in 1797 by Admiral Duncan on the Dutch at Camperdown...
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...
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Mary Ellen Brown. William Motherwell's Cultural Politics 1797-1835. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2001...town most drastically affected by these changes. Paisley in 1797 was a place of highly skilled textile workers, by 1835 machinery...
Security Council authorizes United Nations Organization Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo to organize, conduct local elections; Members Adopt Resolution 1797 (2008), Presidential Statement on Peace Conference.
M2 Presswire; 1/31/2008; 700+ words ; ...local elections; Members Adopt Resolution 1797 (2008), Presidential Statement on Peace...elections. Unanimously adopting resolution 1797 (2008), tabled by France, the Council...Resolution The full text of resolution 1797 (2008) reads as follows: "The Security...