George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr /; 1580 – 15 April 1632), was an English politician and colonial administrator.He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I.He lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish House …

Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675), also often known as Cecilius Calvert, was an English nobleman, who was the first Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, ninth Proprietary Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland, and second of the colony of Province of Avalon to its southeast. His full title was "First Lord Proprietary, Earl Palatine of the …

Charles was born in England on August 27, 1637, and witnessed the religious conflicts of the English Civil War.His father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), was the first Proprietor Governor of Maryland, and 9th Proprietor Governor of Newfoundland (including "Avalon", the Calvert's earliest colony). His mother was Anne Arundell, (c. 1615/16–1649), …

John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, PC (13 October 1696 – 5 August 1743) was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court intrigues and literary quarrels, being apparently caricatured by Pope and Fielding.His memoirs of the early reign of George II were too revealing to be published in his …

Die Stadt wurde im Jahr 1729 gegründet und nach dem ersten und zweiten Baron Baltimore benannt, den britischen Begründern der Maryland-Kolonie.. Der Name Baltimore ist irischen Ursprungs und nach einem anderen Baltimore in der irischen Grafschaft County Longford benannt. Zugrunde liegt das irische „Baile an Tí Mhóir“, was „Ort des großen Hauses“ bedeutet.

Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615/1616 – 23 July 1649) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Lord Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland colony. Anne Arundel County in the US state of Maryland was named for her. In addition, U.S. …

Baltimore (en anglais /ˈbɔl.tɨˌmɔɹ/) est une ville du nord-est des États-Unis située dans l'État du Maryland.Constituant un des plus grands ports maritimes de la côte est, la ville abrite la prestigieuse université Johns-Hopkins et, dans sa banlieue, un campus de l'université du Maryland.Toutefois, un quart de sa population (24,3 % en octobre 2013) vit sous le seuil de …

Baltimore County (/ ˈ b ɔː l t ɪ m ɔːr / BAWL-tim-or, locally: / b ɔː l d ə ˈ m ɔːr / bawl-da-MOR or / ˈ b ɔː l m ər / BAWL-mər) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland and is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area.Baltimore County (which partially surrounds, though does not include, the independent City of Baltimore) is part of the Northeast ...

Michel Boyron, dit Michel Baron, est un comédien et dramaturge français, né le 7 ou le 8 octobre 1653 [1], [a] à Paris, où il est mort le 22 décembre 1729.. Élève de Molière avant de devenir son camarade de scène, interprète des plus grands auteurs dramatiques du règne de Louis XIV — Pierre et Thomas Corneille, Racine, Regnard, Dancourt —, et considéré par ses …

William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin oder kurz Lord Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE, (* 26. Juni 1824 in Belfast, Provinz Ulster, Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Irland; † 17. Dezember 1907 in Netherhall bei Largs, Schottland) war ein britischer Physiker auf den Gebieten der Elektrizitätslehre und der Thermodynamik.Die Einheit Kelvin wurde nach William Thomson …