In 1768 King George made him Captain of a ship and sent him to the Pacific. He was gone for nearly three years. When he returned, he was regarded as a national hero. He started his third voyage in 1776. On this trip he visited Hawaii. He was the first European to set foot on ...
Here is a list of bisexuals born in the 1700s. The people on this list have identified themselves as being bisexual and were born in the 18th century. Feel ...
Charles Louis Decrucq, 1822-1884; landlord of the artist in Cuesmes Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1832-1898; English writer Charles Paul Gruppe, 1860-1940; American artist, born in Canada Charles Paul Renouard, 1845-1924; French artist Charles Paul de Kock, 1793-1871; French writ...
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (French: [kɔʁdɛ]), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part respons...
In an age when most Chinese people thought that a lunar eclipse(月食) was a sign of angry gods, Wang Zhenyi(1768-1797), an astronomer and mathematician who worked tirelessly to publish her discoveries about space,said,“Actually, it's definitely because of the Moon. "Wang was born at a...
6.One year after the first edition of the "Kobzar", Shevchenko penned an epic poem on a popular uprising of the Ukrainians against their foreign oppressors in 1768. What was the title of that poem?Hint The Tale of Igor's Campaign ...
Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819. The marriage of Victoria’s parents was merely for financial gain. The end goal was to produce a viable heir to the throne. 1768 Words 8 Pages Good Essays Read More King Alexandra The Great Alexandra the great was a Macedonian king. He was born...
题目Star WomanWang Zhenyi(王贞仪),(1768—1797) Have you ever heard of Wang Zhenyi?Perhaps most of us didn't know this great name until she was introduced in a CCTV programme. Wang Zhenyi was a great Chinese(1) B.She was born in the Qing Dynasty.At that time,gi...
Our story began in 1768 in Madrid, Spain. The king of Spain, Charles the Third, had recently received reports that worried him. The reports said Russian explorers were in the northern part of the territory (领土) called California. 【1】__ But Spain had no settlements in California. King...
The birth of the nation is dated to Prithvi Narayan Shah's conquest of the Kathmandu Valley kingdoms in 1768. The expansionist reigns of Shah and his successors carved out a territory twice the size of modern Nepal. However, territorial clashes with the Chinese in the late eighteenth century ...