The War of the Austrian Succession (German: Österreichischer Erbfolgekrieg) was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748.Fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic and Mediterranean, related conflicts included King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War and the First and Second …

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (/ ˈ k aʊ f m ə n / KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.

Der Russisch-Schwedische Krieg (auch „Krieg der Hüte“) der Jahre 1741 bis 1743 war der Versuch der schwedischen Partei der Hüte, die Niederlage des Landes im Nordischen Krieg (1700–1721) gegen Russland zu revidieren und die eigene Großmachtstellung wenigstens teilweise wiederherzustellen. Der Konflikt endete mit einer Niederlage Schwedens und …

Alexander Pope, author of The Dunciad The Dunciad / ˈ d ʌ n s i. æ d / is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain. …

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, apodado Sandro Botticelli (Florencia, 1 de marzo de 1445 [1] - Florencia, 17 de mayo de 1510), fue un pintor del Quattrocento italiano.Pertenece, a su vez, a la tercera generación cuatrocentista, encabezada por Lorenzo de Médici el Magnífico y Angelo Poliziano.Procuraron la libertad de conducirse humanamente, recogida de la …

Mittelalter. Erste Siedlungen im heutigen Gebiet der Marktgemeinde Laxenburg lassen sich bis in die Jungsteinzeit nachweisen und waren zumindest bis in die Latènezeit besiedelt. Nach dem Fall des römischen Reiches siedelten Awaren in der Region. Diese Besiedlungen sind jedoch nur archäologisch feststellbar, zeitgenössische, verschriftlichte Quellen liegen nicht vor.

Character reference overview. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;. where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include …

Concerning the lunar month of ~29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles, or described qualitatively using the terminology of the 4 major phases: new moon, first quarter, full moon, last quarter and 4 minor phases: waxing crescent, waxing …

8 July 1741: Text: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) at Wikisource "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by the American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut.

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ ˈ h æ n d əl /; baptised Georg Friedrich Händel, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] (); 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and …

The First Silesian War (German: Erster Schlesischer Krieg) was a war between Prussia and Austria that lasted from 1740 to 1742 and resulted in Prussia's seizing most of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland) from Austria. The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia (the lands of the Bohemian Crown) and formed one theatre of the wider War of the …

The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13% and 20% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people, which was a proportionately greater loss than during the Great Famine of 1845–1852.. The famine of 1740–1741 was due to extremely cold and then dry weather in …

La etimología de Londres es incierta. [7] Es un topónimo muy antiguo que aparece en fuentes del siglo II d. C. Hacia el 121 d. C. aparece citada como Londinium, término que apunta a un origen britanorromano del asentamiento. [7] El primer intento de aclaración, hoy descartado, se atribuye a Godofredo de Monmouth, quien en su Historia Regum Britanniae [7] sostenía que el …

Bethlehem is a city in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, Bethlehem had a total population of 75,781. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County and 19,343 were in Lehigh County. It is Pennsylvania's seventh most populous city.The city is located along the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) …