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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1755. 1755 (MDCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of...
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  • 1755 is the eleventh studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released on 3 November 2017. Unlike previous albums, it is entirely sung in...
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  • The 1755 earthquake may refer to 1755 Lisbon earthquake (great, tsunami), off the coast of Portugal on November 1 or to a style of architecture following...
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  • 1755 (pronounced seventeen fifty-five) is an Acadian band formed in 1975 by Kenneth Saulnier, Pierre Robichaud, Roland Gauvin, Donald Boudreau and Ronald...
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    Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (French: le Désiré), was King of France from 1814 to 1824...
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    In 1755, the British captured Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia, and they ordered the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–64)...
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    16 March 1755) of King's Weston, Gloucestershire, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland from 1727 to 1755 and in the...
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  • George Baillie Born 1755 Died 1809 (aged 51–52) Nationality Scottish Occupations Merchant slave trader author...
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    empire had declined, culminating with the Távora affair, the catastrophic 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and the accession of Maria I, the first ruling Queen of...
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    Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on July 9, 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War at Braddock's Field in present-day...
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    Parliament, the Southwark Market Act 1755 (28 Geo. 2. c. 9). A second act that year, the Southwark Market (No. 2) Act 1755 (28 Geo. 2. c. 23), allowed for...
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    NGC 1755 (also known as ESO 56-SC28) is an open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the Dorado constellation. It is about 120 light years across...
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  • (libretto by King Frederick the Great, composed 1754 first performed Jan. 6, 1755) Johann Adolph Hasse – Ezio (Final version premiered Jan. 20 in Dresden)...
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  • George Templer (?1755–1819), of Shapwick, Somerset, was an English writer, merchant and Member of Parliament. He represented Honiton 1790–1796. "TEMPLER...
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    James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist. He is best...
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    exchange for being allowed to retain the areas of Cochin they had annexed in 1755 and 1756. As a result of the agreement and because of Travancore's obligation...
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    Archibald Gracie (June 25, 1755 – April 11, 1829) was a Scottish-born shipping magnate and early American businessman and merchant in New York City and...
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    Commodore Alexander Murray (July 12, 1755 – October 6, 1821) was an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United...
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    listed road swing bridge over the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent. It opened in 1755 on a site that had been a crossing for centuries, and has had several iterations;...
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    Events from the year 1755 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Michel-Ange Duquesne...
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  • from Karnak and Qift which become the nucleus of the Museo Egizio in Turin. 1755: At Bath, England, when the Priory or Abbey house is demolished and the foundations...
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  • 1755 Lorbach, provisional designation 1936 VD, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter...
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  • Explanatory Notes was an 1824 study Bible, compiled by Thomas Williams (1755–1839). The Cottage Bible printed text deemed unsuitable for family reading...
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    visible in the Alfama district, an old quarter of Lisbon that survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake: many place-names are derived from Arabic and the Alfama...
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    Raisonnable was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1755. On 29 May 1758 she was captured in the Bay of Biscay by HMS Dorsetshire...
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    Count Hans Henric von Essen (26 September 1755 – 28 June 1824) was a Swedish officer, courtier and statesman. Hans Henric von Essen was born at Kavlås...
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    carried out the Great Expulsion (Le Grand Dérangement) of the Acadians between 1755 and 1764. They forcefully deported approximately 11,500 Acadians from the...
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  • The year 1755 in architecture involved some significant events. November 1 – 1755 Lisbon earthquake in Portugal. Among many buildings destroyed is the...
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    Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud (Arabic: ترکي بن عبدالله بن محمد;‎ 1755 – 9 May 1834) was the founder of the Emirate of Najd, also known as Second Saudi State...
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