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2 giorni fa · 1741: Russians begin settling the Aleutian Islands. 1741: Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa Pastorum principis against slavery. 1742: The rebellion of Juan Santos Atahualpa. 1742: Marvel's Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill, begins operation in England.
5 giorni fa · Large electorates could be found, however, in some areas. The northern English county constituency of Yorkshire had 15,000 voters in 1741. In Bristol, a major port on the western coast of England, 5,000 men had the vote—approximately one-third of the city’s adult male population.
1 giorno fa · In an effort to quell the mounting rebellion in the colonies, which was particularly severe in Massachusetts Bay Colony, King George III deployed troops to Boston. A local fracas resulted in the troops killing protesters in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. The Thirteen Colonies responded assertively.
2 giorni fa · The tradition of princely authority, an instrument of national greatness in western Europe, encouraged divisiveness in Germany. The country’s petty rulers legislated at will, levied taxes, concluded alliances, and waged wars against each other and against the emperor.
5 giorni fa · This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1700 AD until 1799 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles .
4 giorni fa · The earliest-known Coventry newspaper was Jopson's Coventry Mercury first issued by James Jopson of Hay Lane in 1741. It contained advertisements and foreign but no local news and was intended for a wider public than just Coventry.
3 giorni fa · Bitter boundary feuds with Massachusetts and New York over the part of the New Hampshire grant that became Vermont continued almost until the American Revolution. Benning Wentworth held the post of colonial governor from 1741 to 1767, the longest tenure of any royal governor in any of the colonies.
