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2 giorni fa · 1780s. 1780: Hyder Ali of Mysore, India develops the first metal-cylinder rockets. 1783: Claude de Jouffroy builds the first steamboat. 1783: Joseph-Ralf and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier build the first manned hot air balloon. 1783: Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invents and uses the first modern parachute.
4 giorni fa · Manuale. La Rivoluzione francese fu un periodo di sconvolgimento sociale, politico e culturale estremo, e prevalentemente violento, avvenuto in Francia tra il 1789 e il 1799, poi allargatosi in Europa con le guerre rivoluzionarie francesi e le guerre napoleoniche.
3 giorni fa · The French colonial empire in the Americas comprised New France (including Canada and Louisiana ), French West Indies (including Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and other islands) and French Guiana. Pictured above is New France.
1 giorno fa · During his first stint in Congress in the 1780s, Madison came to favor amending the Articles of Confederation to provide for a stronger central government. In the 1790s, he led the opposition to Hamilton's centralizing policies and the Alien and Sedition Acts.
3 giorni fa · There were two areas, however, in which the nobility enjoyed important institutional privileges: the upper ranks of the army and the clergy were, in the main, aristocratic preserves and had become more so in the 1780s.
19 ore fa · By the early 1780s more than 40 regional newspapers with advertising, or affiches, had been founded, a clear sign that France was becoming a consumer society. Cities Commerce rather than industry buoyed up French cities, especially the Atlantic seaports.
2 giorni fa · Political instability in Britain. George II died in October 1760 and was succeeded by his grandson, who became George III. The new king became one of the most controversial British monarchs. In the first 10 years of his reign administrations changed no fewer than seven times.
