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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 ...
Maruyama Ōkyo, Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper. Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds. Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost) Jean-Antoine Houdon – Bruno of Cologne (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome)
April 9 – American botanist John Bartram completes his first exploration and cataloging of North American plants after more than nine months. [1]Moses Harris publishes The Aurelian, or, Natural History of English Insects; Namely, Moths and Butterflies.
Free blacks ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia. 1700 – Neutrality treaty between the Iroquois and New France. William Kidd arrested in Boston. 1701 – William Penn issues his last frame of government. Delaware Colony granted charter, separating it from Pennsylvania. Yale University founded.
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.
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
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 ...
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