Anne was the younger of the two surviving children of James, Duke of York (the future King James II of England) and his first wife Anne Hyde. In 1683, Anne married Prince George of Denmark, son of King Frederik III of Denmark and brother of King Christian V of Denmark. Even though th...
December 13, 1759 — The first music store in America opened today in Philadelphia by Michael Hillegas. In 1757, the first public concert took place in town. And historians tell us that as early as 1730 music lessons began to be advertised in what... ...
he has lived and worked in Vienna, where he completed a degree in art history. His artistic practice moves fluidly between the fields of drawing, installation, film, and performance.The Carlone Contemporary Seriesshowcases contemporary works in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere...
Canaletto, The Grand Canal with the Scalzi and S. Simeone Piccolo, oil on canvas, 1730s, oil on canvas, 124.5×204.6 cm, National Gallery, London.6 Antonio Visentino, Album, plate 11: view of the Grand Canal from the Carmelitani Scalzi to the Tintore Molin, pen and brown ink. ...
1744Died: John Hadley, English mathematician best known for the invention of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, in the 1730s. 1349In Strasbourg, several hundred Jews were publicly burned to death, and the rest were expelled from the city. It was one of the first and worst pogroms in...
This chapter reviews the history of the so-called Golden Age of piracy, which lasted from ca. 1690 to 1730 and occurred primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Seas. Many pirates during this time had previously been commissioned as privateers or agents of national governments charged...
When Samuel Pepys sampled his first cup of tea in 1660 the ‘China drink’ was an expensive novelty, promoted mainly for its medicinal qualities. At the time of the Restoration, the British imbibed ten times as much coffee as tea. By 1730 that position had reversed and the great British ...
Alongside the physical damage, psychiatrists have long urged upon the harm reading could also do to your mind. For one thing, it encouraged hypochondria. In his Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730), the aformentioned Bernard Mandeville laid bare the psychopathology of print...
A Brief History of Markets photo:Old Photos Blog The first documented farmers markets arecredited to Egypt, when, about 5000 years ago, farming yields surged beyond the needs of the producers’ families. In North America, instances of these markets first appeared in1600s Boston. In ...
Letters were significant even in the period of telegrams and telephones, until fax and email further eroded their primacy, especially since the turn of the 21st Century. As communication technology has advanced in recent history, postal letters on paper have been less important as a routine means...