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Great Britain accepted the principle in 1805 ; Russia, in 1824 ; and the United States ( tacitly ) in 1894.
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He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;
director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.
Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.
Besides the editors there were many contributors in the United States and Great Britain to Volumes 1, and 2.
For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.
The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.
On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.
Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.
The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.
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In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.
With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.
* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").
The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.
Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.
* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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* October 10, 1880-The Pearl of Great Price was unanimously accepted as scripture.
* April 3, 1976-Two visions ( one received by Joseph Smith and the other by Joseph F. Smith ) were accepted as scripture and added to the Pearl of Great Price.
The revelations were earlier accepted as scripture when added to The Pearl of Great Price in April 1976.
The remaining church at large – clergy, monks and assembly of believers – accepted the council in spite of its failure to heal the rift of the Great Schism.
Lionel Robbins himself, who had embraced the Austrian theory of the business cycle in The Great Depression ( 1934 ), later regretted having written that book and accepted many of the Keynesian counter-arguments.
In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.
The situation in Russia had improved greatly since the accession to the throne of Catherine the Great, and in 1766 Euler accepted an invitation to return to the St. Petersburg Academy and spent the rest of his life in Russia.
Scattered across 800 years, the British constitution consists of many documents — such as Magna Carta ( 1215 ), the Great Reform Bill ( 1832 ), and the Parliament Act ( 1911 )— and, most important for the evolution of the office of Prime Minister, customs known as conventions that became accepted practice.
With this victory, the Turks accepted Taizong as their Khagan, or Great Khan ( 天可汗 ), in addition to his rule as the Son of Heaven.
On 6 February, the Covenanter Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II as King of Great Britain in succession to his father, but refused to allow him to enter Scotland unless he accepted Presbyterianism throughout the British Isles.
signatory to the Treaty of Klosterberg ( 1666 ) whereby Magdeburg accepted a garrison of Brandenburg troops and the obligation to pay dues to the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg.
* 1899-Open Door Policy for equal trading rights inside China ; accepted by Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Japan
This modified design, called " Great Model ", was accepted by the King and the construction started in November, 1673.
The Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 gave to farmers who accepted more marginal lands, especially in the Great Plains, which could not be irrigated.
The League of Nations decried Italy's participation in this war and the Italian claim on Ethiopia's conquest was disputed by some members of the international community ( namely the United States and the Soviet Union ) but accepted by Great Britain and France in 1938.
Justin accepted after the traditional token show of reluctance, and with his wife Sophia, he was escorted to the Great Palace of Constantinople.
Three of the remaining non-football members ( Alderson – Broaddus, Davis & Elkins, and Ohio Valley ) accepted invitations to join the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.
Just after this, Dallas accepted an offer to be the private secretary of Albert Gallatin, and he went to Russia with Gallatin who was sent there to try to secure its aid in peace negotiations between Great Britain and the United States.
It is commonly accepted that Cyrus the Great was buried at Pasargadae.
As the Great Depression continued to ravage the United States, Dawes accepted President Herbert Hoover's appeal to leave diplomatic office and head the newly created Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
This was generally accepted to be all the land claimed by the French from the mouth of the Ohio River, north to the Great Lakes, and including the valleys of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers.
Over Great Western's protests, in May 1839 Parry accepted Cunard's tender of £ 55, 000 for a three-ship Liverpool – Halifax service with an extension to Boston and a supplementary service to Montreal.
Before James J. Hill bought the Great Northern Railway in 1879 and accepted the task of completing the line from Crookston to the Canadian border, a French-Canadian man founded a town named Louisa, after the French king, in the path of the railroad.
The concept of a grid being the ideal method of town-planning became widely accepted by the time of Alexander the Great.
Orthodox Christian population mostly originates from local Montenegrin and Serb population, which accepted Orthodox Christianity in Middle Ages after a major split during The Great Schism.
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