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1 giorno fa · Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
29 mag 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
1 giorno fa · 1712: Thomas Newcomen builds the first commercial steam engine to pump water out of mines. Newcomen's engine, unlike Thomas Savery's, uses a piston. 1730s. 1730: Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently develop the octant; 1733: John Kay enables one person to operate a loom with the flying shuttle
2 giorni fa · The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire amongst supporters of the claimant Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.
6 giorni fa · The principal acts of the general assembly, holden and begun at Edinburgh, may 1, 1712. I. Sess. 1, May 1, 1712.—Act appointing the Queen's Commission to his Grace John Duke of Atholl to be Recorded. II. The Queen's most gracious Letter to the General Assembly, presented to them the 1st of May 1712.
6 giorni fa · On April 7, 1712, nearly two dozen slaves in the colony of New York rose up in defiance, torching houses and taking to the streets to foment a larger rebellion.
6 giorni fa · The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for repealing an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland , intituled, Act for discharging the Yule Vacance." And, after some Time spent therein, the House was resumed. And the Lord Balmerino reported, from the said Committee, "That they had gone ...
