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1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1766th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 766th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1766, the ...
A historic map by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey that has been georeferenced by the Regional Plan Association for mapping historic wetlands in OpenHistoricalMap. OpenHistoricalMap allows anyone with a free account to contribute directly to the map through an editor such as the iD Web application or the JOSM desktop application.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Atlanta is a city in Cass County, northeastern Texas, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. census , the city had a population of 5,675, [ 4 ] which decreased to 5,433 as of 2020 . [ 5 ]
Previously allied with France, they were dissatisfied by the policies of the British under Amherst (April 25, 1763 – July 25, 1766) Royal Proclamation of 1763 establishes royal control in territories newly ceded by France. To prevent further violence between White settlers and Native Americans, the Proclamation sets a western boundary on the ...
Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations (2006). Harvey, Bruce, and Lynn Watson-Powers. "The eyes of the world are upon us: A look at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895." Atlanta History 39#1 (1995): 5-11. Hanley, John. The Archdiocese of Atlanta. A History (2006), The Roman ...
1926 - Atlanta Historical Society founded. 1927 - Atlanta Historical Bulletin begins publication. 1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication. 1929 Atlanta University Center Consortium established. City Hall built. [2] January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. is born. WGST radio begins broadcasting. [35] 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro ...
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...