• The List of shipwrecks in the 1750s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1750s. Unknown date 2 September 14 October Unknown date...
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    The 1750s (pronounced "seventeen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1750, and ended on December 31, 1759. The 1750s...
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    the 1740s List of shipwrecks in the 1750s List of maritime disasters List of maritime disasters in the 19th century List of maritime disasters in the...
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    complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1750–1754. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...
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  • members. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates. "CHRISTIANITY", The Roman World...
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    shipwrecks in Louisbourg Harbour and an unknown 1750s schooner at Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. The results of treasure hunting are also featured in a...
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    Kiska (redirect from History of Kiska)
    thousands of years. Kiska, and the other Rat Islands, were reached by independent Russian traders in the 1750s. After the initial exploitation of the sea otter...
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    Landguard Fort (category Grade I listed buildings in Suffolk)
    started in 1745 to a pentagonal bastioned trace. New batteries were built in the 1750s and 1780s. The biggest change occurred in the 1870s when the interior...
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  • This is a list of organisations with a British royal charter. It includes organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in chronological order, that...
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    Britain or France. Of an estimated 14,100 Acadians, approximately 11,500 were deported, of whom 5,000 died of disease, starvation or shipwrecks. Their land was...
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  • property in the care of English Heritage. List of Cadw properties (Wales) List of Historic Scotland properties List of abbeys and priories List of castles...
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    take prisoner the remaining 151 Acadians. They reached Georges Island with them on June 29. Following the Acadian Expulsion in the 1750s, the island was...
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  • the mid-1750s. Although never occupying the territory, Spain considered it part of its Central American territories, which then included portions of present-day...
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  • in the 1750s, after the destruction of Crawford's Town. Most of its new inhabitants were the supporters of Ned Crawford, who made up the majority of the...
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    in form with minor changes until the 1750s. The word cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning "large tube", which came from the Latin...
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    improvement-minded farmers of all different backgrounds began using new agricultural practices to raise their output. During the 1750s, these agricultural innovators...
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    enslaved people. The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives, in alphabetical order by first name. Several...
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    the coast from shipwrecked slave ships, notably one in the mid-seventeenth century. The survivors of shipwrecks and escaped slaves from the Providence Island...
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    in the U.S. Virgin Islands which were previously the Danish West Indies. .. The town is dominated by the red and white Fort Frederik from the 1750s....
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    Fairview Lawn Cemetery (category Cemeteries established in the 1890s)
    at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people. The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land...
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    prior. The design persisted, and cannons of the 1480s show little difference and surprising similarity with cannons three centuries later in the 1750s. This...
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    Jamestown, Virginia (category 1607 establishments in the Colony of Virginia)
    who lived in the general area attended services at Jamestown's church until the 1750s, when it was abandoned. By the mid-18th century, the land was heavily...
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  • Saint-Domingue, where he meets the future mother of his child, Bastienne Josèphe. During the events of Rogue in the 1750s, Adéwalé travels to Port-au-Prince...
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  • History of the United States dollar Recessions in the United States List of disasters in the United States by death toll List of natural disasters in the United...
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    established by William Nicholson in the 1750s. More formally, Nicholson's Packet Service began in 1765 or 1766, and the Post Office mail contract was secured...
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    lost cargo and shipwrecks. Approximately 40 minutes after the earthquake, a tsunami engulfed the harbor and downtown area, rushing up the Tagus river "so...
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    Dürer's Rhinoceros (category Prints and drawings in the British Museum)
    those of Clara the rhinoceros, who toured Europe in the 1740s and 1750s. On 20 May 1515, an Indian rhinoceros named Ulysses arrived in Lisbon from the Far...
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    III. By the 1750s the land was owned and heavily cultivated, primarily by the Travis and Ambler families. A military post was located on the island during...
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    known as a superintendent. Among the population of Africans trafficked for slavery, one was named Ancoma. In the 1750s, one captive named Ancoma escaped...
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    discovered in the early 18th century by British whalers and since late 1750s was used for seal hunting. The hunting was especially intensive in the 19th century...
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