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* 1715 – 1720: Translation of the Iliad
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Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8
* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997
Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).
Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).
1715 and 1720
It has been variously assigned to 1715, 1716, 1720, and 1726, and it is usually added that he left a widow in great poverty.
Around this time he began the work of translating the Iliad, which was a painstaking process – publication began in 1715 and did not end until 1720.
The scene of the Persian ambassador's entry into Paris, 7 February 1715, was described by François Pidou de Saint-Olon ( 1646 – 1720 ), a nobleman who was delegated the diplomatic position of liaison officer to the Persian delegation.
Also in 1720, Sweden regained the remainder of her dominion in the Treaty of Frederiksborg, which had been lost to Denmark in 1715.
Wolf published a number of important books, including France, 1815 to the Present ( 1940 ), The Emergence of the Great Powers ( 1685 – 1715 ) ( 1951 ), Toward a European Balance of Power ( 1640 – 1720 ) ( 1969 ) and his most important study, Louis XIV ( 1968 ).
According to the Austrian censuses from 1715 and 1720, Serbs, Bunjevci, and Šokci comprised most of the region's population ( 97. 6 % of population according to 1715-1720 census data ).
Between 1715 and 1720 he devoted himself to compositions like the " Battle of Pultawa ", which he painted for Peter the Great, and the " Petrification of Phineus and of his Companions ", which led to his election to the Academy.
* Letters 90 – 137 or Letter 8 = 145: the Regency of Philippe d ’ Orléans, covering five years ( from September 1715 to November 1720 ).
He was ambassador in Paris ( 1715 – 1720 ), and, besides seeing service under Marlborough, was commander-in-chief of the British forces on the Continent in 1742, showing great gallantry at Dettingen.
The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's " golden period " between 1700 and 1720.
In 1715, he entered the Irish House of Commons, sitting for Coleraine until 1720, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland with the title Baron Beresford, of Beresford, in the County of Cavan, and further as Viscount Tyrone by King George I of Great Britain.
In response to Wabanaki hostilities toward the expansion, the governor of Nova Scotia, Richard Philipps, built a fort in traditional Mi ' kmaq territory at Canso in 1720, and Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute built forts on traditional Abenaki territory around the mouth of the Kennebec River: Fort George at Brunswick ( 1715 ), St. George's Fort at Thomaston ( 1720 ), and Fort Richmond ( 1721 ) at Richmond.
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