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19 ore fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
19 ore fa · The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States.
2 giorni fa · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
2 giorni fa · The 18th century. As the shifting meaning of the term Anglo-Irish literature during the 20th century demonstrates, there is disagreement about how to characterize 18th-century Irish writing in English. There is little disagreement, however, about the dichotomous nature of Irish society at that time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 giorni fa · From what has been said it will be clear that in a city whose cathedral was dominated by whig churchmen, religious life throughout the 18th century followed the pattern eulogized by Archbishop Sharpe at the beginning of the century: 'both as to doctrine and worship the purest church ... in the world: the most orthodox in faith, the ...
2 giorni fa · Little money was forthcoming from other sources and by the later 18th century the rates may have become inadequate to maintain the standard of relief given earlier; in 1791 the corporation was even prepared to seek a tax on dogs to assist the poor rates.
2 giorni fa · Pennell’s research opens up the possibility that before long historians will be able to investigate the relationship between changes in the kitchen and the industrial revolution in 18th-century England.
