The First Carnatic War (1740–1748) was the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession and the first of a series of Carnatic Wars that established early British dominance on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent. In this conflict the British and French East India Companies vied with each other on land for control of their respective trading posts at Madras, …

Charlotte de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (1744 – 1818), épouse de Georges III et connue aussi comme la reine Charlotte, aurait peut-être donné son nom au fameux dessert [4] ; Charlotte de Robespierre (1760 – 1834), sœur de Maximilien, d'Augustin et d'Henriette ; Charlotte Corday, contre-révolutionnaire française ;

Выйдя в отставку, Фонвизин, несмотря на тяжёлую болезнь (паралич), до конца жизни занимался литературным трудом, но встретил непонимание и резкое неодобрение в лице императрицы Екатерины ii, запретившей Фонвизину ...

ヨハン・ゴットフリート・ヘルダー（Johann Gottfried von Herder, 1744年 8月25日 - 1803年 12月18日）は、ドイツの哲学者・文学者、詩人、神学者。. カントの哲学などに触発され、若きゲーテやシュトゥルム・ウント・ドラング、ドイツ古典主義文学およびドイツロマン主義に多大な影響を残すなどドイツ ...

Opper-Gelre of het Overkwartier van Gelre was het zuidelijke van de vier kwartieren van het hertogdom Gelre.Dit gedeelte van Gelre bleef in de Tachtigjarige Oorlog bij de Spaanse Nederlanden, vanwaar de benaming Spaans-Gelre stamt. Opper-Gelre hield op te bestaan in 1713, toen het in vieren gedeeld werd. Tegenwoordig strekt het zich uit over grote delen van …

This article lists the monarchs of Eswatini (known as Swaziland for most of its history). The King of Eswatini (also known as Ingwenyama) rules alongside the Queen Mother (also known as Ndlovukati).The role of the king has historically been as the head or father of the nation while the Queen Mother is the spiritual leader of the nation.

Johann Gottfried Herder (Mohrungen, 25 agosto 1744 – Weimar, 18 dicembre 1803) è stato un filosofo, teologo e letterato tedesco Biografia. Nato a Mohrungen nella Prussia orientale dal maestro di scuola Gottfried (1706 - 1763) e dalla sua seconda moglie, Anna Elisabeth Peltz (1717 - 1772), dal pietismo ...

初代尾上菊五郎の門弟、1744–1815。父親は大坂祇園で小芝居の裏方をしていた徳次郎なる人物といわれるが、江戸生まれという説もありその出自については不詳。 初代尾上松助 → 初代尾上松緑; 尾上松録（尾上梅鶴）

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have not changed very much in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman Modern version. The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler. Modern versions tend to ...

Die Würde einer Hofdame, auch Ehrendame oder Palastdame genannt, wurde den zu einem Hofstaat gehörenden adeligen Damen aufgrund ihres Standes oder des Standes ihres Ehemanns verliehen.. Hofdamen verrichteten Ehrendienste und fungierten als Gesellschafterinnen.Solche Hofämter wurden nur von hoffähigen Adligen bekleidet. Im Gegensatz etwa zur Zofe waren sie …

Por otro lado, Charles Baudelaire fue uno de los primeros autores que analizaron la relación del arte con la recién surgida era industrial, prefigurando la noción de “belleza moderna”: no existe la belleza eterna y absoluta, sino que cada concepto de lo bello tiene algo de eterno y algo de transitorio, algo de absoluto y algo de particular. La belleza viene de la pasión y, al tener ...

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, Pope is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, …

Dafne is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini survives complete; the mostly lost music was completed by Jacopo Peri, but at least two of the six surviving fragments are by Jacopo Corsi. Dafne was first performed during Carnival of 1598 (1597 old style) at the Palazzo Corsi.

John Coakley Lettsom (1744 – 1 November 1815, also Lettsome) was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands into an early Quaker settlement. The son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother, he grew up to be an abolitionist.He founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, convinced that a combined …