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5 giorni fa · To improve its amenities, St. George's Close, through which the walk ran, was hedged in 1741 and in the following year persons were forbidden to bathe naked in the river beside the walk. Between 1749 and 1753 a well, known as Pikeing Well, and a fountain were constructed adjoining the walk with a well-head and grotto designed by Carr.
2 giorni fa · In 1741, he requested permission to leave to Berlin, arguing he was in need of a milder climate for his eyesight. The Russian academy gave its consent and would pay him 200 rubles per year as one of its active members. Berlin
2 giorni fa · James Townsend, in 1741, gave the interest of 100£. to be distributed in coals. Charity-school . A charity-school was instituted at Brentford, by subscription, in the year 1703, and a school-house built on the Butts Common, the freehold of which is vested in feoffees.
3 giorni fa · Early modern European history is usually seen to span from the start of the 15th century, through the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.
3 giorni fa · The traveller Celia Fiennes died at a house in Mare Street near Well Street in 1741. In 1745 buildings lined both sides of Mare Street between Mutton Lane and London Lane, leading respectively to the south and north ends of London Fields.
4 giorni fa · After the Napoleonic Wars there were at last signs of progress. New initiatives culminated in 1827 in the opening of the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, which gave the city a major role in seagoing trade and laid the basis for its commercial and industrial expansion in the Victorian era.
3 giorni fa · 1956 1st Eurovision Song Contest: Lys Assia for Switzerland wins singing "Refrain" in Lugano. 1956 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna. 1957 Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan. 1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia.
