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3 giorni fa · The Saint-Domingue slave revolt in 1791. In 1789, the most populous French colonies were Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), Martinique, Guadeloupe, the Île Bourbon (Réunion) and the Île de la France. These colonies produced commodities such as sugar, coffee and cotton for exclusive export to France.
4 mag 2024 · 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.
1 giorno fa · Se stai cercando altri significati, vedi Mozart (disambigua). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Salisburgo, 27 gennaio 1756 – Vienna, 5 dicembre 1791) è stato un compositore austriaco [1] di massima importanza nella storia della musica. La sua fama persistente è legata al profondo influsso della sua arte sul gusto musicale moderno e alla ...
2 giorni fa · In 1786, after expelling Burmese invaders from Southern Siam, Prince Sura Singhanat declared that the Northern Malay sultanates should resume tributary obligations as it had during the Ayutthaya period.
30 apr 2024 · William Beckford was an eccentric English dilettante, author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786). Such writers as George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Stéphane Mallarmé acknowledged his genius. He also is renowned for having built Fonthill Abbey, the most sensational building of the English Gothic Revival.
23 apr 2024 · Sir William Jones was a British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West. Of Welsh parentage, he studied at Harrow and University College, Oxford (1764–68), and learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. By the end of his life, he had learned.
18 apr 2024 · Christian VIII (born Sept. 18, 1786, Copenhagen—died Jan. 20, 1848, Amalienborg, Den.) was the king of Denmark during the rise of the liberal opposition to absolutism in the first half of the 19th century.
