A graph of the populations of Ireland and Europe indexed against 1750 showing the disastrous consequence of the 1845 — 49 famine.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

1750 BCE — Hammurabi ( middle chronology )

By the middle of the 19th century, subsequent to the Industrial Revolution ( 1750 – 1850 ), the great expansion of the bourgeoisie social class caused its self-stratification — by business activity and by economic function — into the haute bourgeoisie ( bankers and industrialists ) and the petite bourgeoisie ( tradesmen and white-collar workers ).

In checking with the Historical Society, there are two maps of early Rockland County homesteads — the earlier one dated 1750.

His writings can be divided into three periods, during which he produced mainly history, 1711 — 1718 ; mainly satirical poetry and stage comedies, 1719 — 1731 ; and mainly philosophy, 1731 — 1750.

During the peak European importation of Chinese white-copper from 1750 to 1800, increased attention was made to its discovering its constituents — Peat and Cookson found: " the darkest proved to contain 7. 7 % nickel and the lightest said to be indistinguishable from silver with a characteristic bell-like resonance when struck and considerable resistance to corrosion, 11. 1 %".

Ahmed Al-Jazzar, the Ottoman military man mainly known for his role in the Siege of Acre, spent the earlier part of his career at Jeddah — where in 1750 he killed some seventy rioting nomads in retaliation for the killing of his commander, Abdullah Beg.

Baptists later emerged in the 18th century — in 1750 at Keiss, where the leader was William Sinclair and the church was established on the English Baptist pattern.

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In 1750, the palace became a museum — the forerunner of the Louvre —, and was open two days a week until 1779.

Some 1750 drawings in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle attest to the assiduous study underlying Domenichino's work — figural, architectural, decorative, landscape, even caricature — and to the painter's brilliance as a draftsman.

He was famous, in part, for his 1750 and 1754 election sermons espousing American rights — the cause of liberty and the right and duty to resist tyranny ; other famous sermons included " The Snare Broken ," 1766.

During this period ( until 1750 ), some 16 missions were established on the peninsula — mostly on the east coast of the peninsula, with a handful on the Pacific coast, in the northwestern part of the peninsula.

One of the main pillars of the Transylvanian School, Petru Maior, was a connected with the city — according to research, his father Gheorghe Maior, lived in Târnăveni by 1750, serving as a Greek-Catholic priest in the Seuca parish.

St. Nahi's was rebuilt several times — in 950, 1650 and 1750.

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

* Mariam ( c. 1750 — 1829 ), married 1777 Davit Tsitsishvili, Prince of Zemo-Satsitsiano

* In Masovia known from 1750, Antoni and Józef Nowak — Lt Generals of Polish Army in Napoleon's Campaign ; Aleksander Nowak — Lt Gen in Polish-Russian War of 1831

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.

# 1746 – 1750 Thomas Knapp

* 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor ( d. 1823 )

Thomas married Hannah Harrison Ludwell ( 1701 – 1750 ).

Image: Mr and Mrs Andrews 1748-49. jpg | Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, 1750

* Thomas Stock ( 1750 – 1803 ), English clergyman

* Thomas Pinckney ( 1750 – 1828 ), early American statesman and diplomat

In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker of Virginia publicized the location of Cumberland Gap, which brought a stream of long hunters down the Clinch and Powell valleys into what is now Claiborne County.

The original survey and plat of the Town of Smithfield was made by Jordan Thomas, County Surveyor, for Captain Arthur Smith in 1750.

The land on which the town of Abingdon is situated was originally surveyed between the years 1748 and 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker and was part of the Great Road that Colonel William Byrd III ordered cut through the wilderness on to Kingsport, Tennessee.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

A notable example that established the genre in English literature is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ( 1750 ).

The Forest Service investigated the name ' Cumberland ', and found it came to Kentucky in 1750 when Thomas Walker named the Cumberland River in honor of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

Chelsea takes its name from the estate and Georgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750.

In 1750, he attacked Thomas Sherlock's notions of antediluvian prophecy, which had been published 25 years before.

Also included is Thomas Gray's, " Elegy on a Country Churchyard " ( 1750 ).

Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse ( 29 May 1750 – 24 July 1812 ) was a French admiral.

* Thomas Brown ( loyalist ) ( 1750 – 1825 ), American Revolution commander of King's Rangers in Georgia

Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

* Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton, 6th Baron Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ) ( created Marquess of Rockingham in 1746 )