Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia, by Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787, an early Neoclassicism | neoclassical painting ( National Gallery ( London ) | National Gallery, London )

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck ( 2 July 1714 in Erasbach near Berching ( Upper Palatinate ), Germany – 15 November 1787 in Vienna ) was an opera composer of the early classical period.

The town contains significant examples of early architecture, including the Town Hall, built as a meetinghouse in 1787, the Congregational Church built in 1840, and the first Seventh-day Adventist Church built circa 1843.

* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.

In 1787, Abijah Gilbert and Jacob Morris, early owners of land in the county, were among the first who settled the town, Morris giving Gilbert land of his choice as payment for his services.

The earliest settlers on the section of bottomland that would one day become Philippi were William Anglin ( as early as 1783 or ' 84 ) and Daniel Booth ( 1787 ).

* Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk ( c. 1730 – c. 1787 ), early leader of Hasidic Judaism and primary disciple of Dovber of Mezeritch, also known as " Menachem Mendel of Horodok ".

Thomas Gage ( 1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787 ) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.

Knox in early 1787 sent George Washington a draft proposal for a government that bears significant resemblance to what was eventually adopted.

A less well known, but possibly much older version of the game is Warminster Fives, a game based on Wessex Fives which is thought to have been played at Lord Weymouth's School, now Warminster School from as early as 1787.

Walter Mould was also authorized by New Jersey to strike state coppers with this motto and did so beginning in early 1787 in Morristown, New Jersey.

In 1787 the early geologist James Hutton noted what is now known as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, near Jedburgh.

Because the federal government had been unable to raise any significant number of troops and Bowdoin could no longer trust local militias in the western counties, he proposed in early January 1787 the creation of a private militia to be funded by eastern merchants.

Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal GCB ( 28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860 ), known as Sir Harry Smith, was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century.

After a brief honeymoon on Long Island, the newlyweds returned to New York to live with her father until Congress adjourned. Their first child, Eliza, was born in late 1786 or early 1787 in Virginia.

As early as 1787 Molina mentioned the possibility of South America being populated from south Asia through the " infinite island chains " of the Pacific while North America could have been populated from Siberia.

James Weddell ( Ostend, August 24, 1787 – September 9, 1834 ) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74 ° 15 ' S ( a record 7. 69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle ) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.

Although his early publication of 1787, Observations on Some Parts of Natural History, incorrectly attributed the prehistoric mounds of Ohio to the Danes, in his 1797 work ( mentioned above ) he reconsidered his earlier claim, identifying the Mound builders as Native Americans.

* Thomas Price ( Carnhuanawc ) ( 1787 – 1848 ), historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century

Barnard Elliot Bee, Sr. ( 1787 – 1853 ) was an early settler and political leader in the Republic of Texas.

Admiral Samuel Graves ( 17 April 1713 – 8 March 1787 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who is probably best known for his role early in the American War of Independence.

Justine ( original French title Les infortunes de la vertu ) was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in the Bastille.

José Ignacio Álvarez Thomas ( February 15, 1787 – July 19, 1857 ) was a South American military commander and politician of the early 19th century.

Emancipation of the slaves was proposed as early as 1787, but was not achieved until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 ( effective 1834 ).

Matsudaira Sadanobu ( 1759 – 1829 ) was named the shogun's chief councilor ( rōjū ) in the summer of 1787 ; and early in the next year, he became the regent for the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The Adirondacks blaze brightest in early October, choice routes being 9N from Saratoga up to Lake George and 73 and 86 in the Lake Placid area.

Theresa had seen him through the right college, into the right fraternity, and though pursued by various girls and various mammas of girls, safely married to the right sort, however much in the early years of that match his wife, Anne, had not seemed to understand poor George.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

A drawing of a glider by Sir George Cayley, one of the early attempts at creating an aerodynamic shape.

In early 1578, the regency was taken over by his cousin, George Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ( 1539 – 1603 ).

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the college attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century.

He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.

The next was the hymn book published for the use of Baptised Believers in the Kingdom of God ( an early name for Christadelphians ) by George Dowie in Edinburgh in 1864.

In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 19th century, but the custom hadn't yet spread much beyond the royal family.

The motif is continued in Greek Apollo, and the early Christian narratives about Archangel Michael and Saint George.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Parton toured as a member of Porter Wagoner's road show, as well as with a number of other country musicians, including George Jones and Linda Ronstadt.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

; Forgotten Futures VII: Tsar Wars: Based on the late 19th century novels of George Griffith, Tsar Wars is a setting for the struggle between the anarchist Terror and the forces of oppression in the early 20th Century, and the return of the Tsar's heir to the utopia of 2030 AD.

FileMan is a set of utilities written by George Timson in the late 1970s and early 1980s, using MUMPS, which provide a meta-data function for MUMPS applications.

During the early 1950s, Groucho described his perfect woman: “ Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like George S. Kaufman .”

His oldest son George survived a rare form of leukaemia as a baby in the early 1990s ; Lineker now supports children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and has since appeared in adverts encouraging people to give blood as a result.

As early as 1488, when his father was in East Frisia fighting on behalf of the emperor, George was regent of the ducal possessions, which included the Margraviate of Meissen with the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.