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* 1767 – The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel establish a church at Carbonear.
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Andrew Jackson ( March 15, 1767 June 8, 1845 ) was the seventh President of the United States ( 1829 – 1837 ).
According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.
* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )
Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.
# On 6 January 1788, to Elisabeth of Württemberg ( 21 April 1767 – 18 February 1790 ), who died bearing a short-lived daughter, Ludovika Elisabeth of Austria ( 1790 – 1791 ).
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Joseph Priestley, then living in Leeds, became associated with the Society in 1767 when Darwin and Wedgwood became involved with his work on electricity.
Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries: he was elected to both bodies in 1767, and afterwards became a vice-president of the latter.
In October 1791 Tone converted these ideas into practical policy by founding, in conjunction with Thomas Russell ( 1767 – 1803 ), Napper Tandy and others, the Society of the United Irishmen.
In 1767, against David Hume's advice, he published his Essay on the History of Civil Society, which was well received and translated into several European languages.
Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society ( 1767 ) drew on classical authors and contemporary travel literature, to analyze modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues.
Runciman's earliest efforts had been in landscape ; he now turned to historical and imaginative subjects, exhibiting his Nausicaa at Play with her Maidens in 1767 at the Free Society of British Artists, Edinburgh.
However, the university's roots go back to 1760, with the foundation of the Trondheim Society, which in 1767 became the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767 and Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy in 1768.
Gough was chosen a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1767, and was its director from 1771 to 1791.
In 1767, however, it was revived, and, on January 2, 1769, it united with the American Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge under the name " American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge ".
In 1761 Bowyer became printer to the Royal Society, and in 1767 printer of the rolls of the House of Lords and the journals of the House of Commons.
For a time he taught at the royal seminary in Madrid and at the Jesuit college of Murcia ; then he went to the Americas as a missionary and remained there until 1767, when in connection with the abolition of the Jesuits the establishments of the Society were taken away from the order.
" The neighborhood's poverty led the Jesuits to found a " Spiritual House " in the area, a charitable and educational mission referred to by San Pedro's indigent as " the Residence ;" the 1767 Suppression of the Society of Jesus led to the mission's closure, however.
The upper Green on Elm is bordered by " Quality Row ", containing some of the oldest structures in New Haven: the federal style white clapboard Nicholas Callahan house, once a tavern ( now the Yale Elihu Senior Society ), the federal Eli W. Blake House ( now the Graduate Club ), the federal John Pierpont house ( now the Yale University Visitor Center ) built in 1767 and the brick Greek Revival Governor Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll House, designed in 1829 by Town and Davis ( future home of Dwight Hall, the student community service organization at Yale ).
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