* Paris sent a corps of 2000 men, 1750 of which fought on the battlefield.

* Il mondo della luna ( The World on the Moon ) ( 1750 )

Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, c. 1750 ( note reflected light on glass / silver )

ET, in turn, can now be seen ( in light of modern results ) as close to the average mean solar time between 1750 and 1890 ( centered on 1820 ), because that was the period during which the observations on which Newcomb's tables were based were performed.

This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

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.

Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical and biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital ( 1750 ) the critique ended.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).

Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

Hammurabi died and passed the reins of the empire on to his son Samsu-iluna in c. 1750 BC.

The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times.

Rousseau's 1750 " Discourse on the Arts and Sciences " was awarded the first prize and gained him significant fame.

* Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( Discours sur les sciences et les arts ), 1750

The Earth's motion was described in Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), which provided a formula for estimating the motion of the Sun relative to the epoch 1900 based on astronomical observations made between 1750 and 1892.

Before the Enclosure Acts of 1750, the Ridgeway existed as an informal series of tracks across the chalk downs, chosen by travellers based on path conditions.

According to one widely accepted dating, he was born on 20 November 1750 ( Friday, 10th Dhu al-Hijjah, 1163 AH ).

His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.

Although Penn began operating as an academy or secondary school in 1751 and obtained its collegiate charter in 1755, it initially designated 1750 as its founding date ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal.

Such a book fell within the broad tradition of natural theology works written during the Enlightenment ; and this explains why Paley based much of his thought on Ray ( 1691 ) and Derham ( 1711 ) and Nieuwentyt ( 1750 ).

Connecticut Hall, oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753.

Year 1750 ( MDCCL ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Pachelbel's death in 1750 was apparently caused by some sort of illness, referred to as a " lameness in the hands " in the documents.

Soon after ordination he was appointed parish priest at Waldulm ( 1726 ), and in 1730 at Kappelrodeck, but in 1750, on account of severe illness, he was obliged to resign his position.

For instance, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour ended their sexual relationship after 1750 but she remained his official mistress for fourteen more years, until her death.

Pepperrell himself built an elaborate wooden house called the Sparhawk Mansion at Kittery Point as a gift to his daughter on her marriage to Nathaniel Sparhawk in 1750.

He died about 1750 leaving his property to his only child Elizabeth and her heirs.

On May 15, 1750 at age 18 Martha married Daniel Parke Custis, a rich planter two decades her senior.

Although they had ceased being lovers after 1750, they remained friends, and Louis XV was devoted to her until her death from tuberculosis in 1764 at the age of forty-two.

Harrington must have been pleased by the meeting as, by 1750, Bridget Gunning had persuaded him to grant her a pension, which she then used to transport herself, Maria, and Elizabeth, back to their original home in Huntingdon, England.

Harrington must have been pleased by the meeting as, by 1750, Bridget Gunning had persuaded him to grant her a pension, which she then used to transport herself, Maria, and Elizabeth, back to their original home in Huntingdon, England.

His mother joined the Quaker religious sect in 1750, bringing her sons with her into that religion.

In 1750, Gage became engaged to a " lady of rank and fortune, whom he persuaded to yield her hand in an honourable way ".

In 1750, her unit returned to Britain and traveled from Portsmouth to London, where she revealed her sex to her shipmates on 2 June.

She was honorably discharged and the Royal Hospital, Chelsea officially recognized Snell's military service in the November and granted her a pension in 1750 ( increased in 1785 ), a rare thing in those days.

When her father succeeded to the throne in 1750 as José I, Maria was declared his heiress-presumptive and given the traditional title of Princess of Brazil and Duchess of Braganza.

The viscountcy of Cobham and its junior title the barony of Cobham were created with remainder, failing male issue, to ( 1 ) Lord Cobham's eldest sister Hester Grenville ( who succeeded as second Viscountess in 1749 and was created Earl Temple in 1750 ) and the heirs male of her body and ( 2 ) to his third sister Christian, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.

She was rebuilt in 1710 and 1730 before being renamed HMS Torbay in her new incarnation as a third rate in 1750.

Spain having raised objections to the Asiento clauses, the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was supplemented by Treaty of Madrid ( 5 October 1750 ), by which Great Britain surrendered her claims under those clauses in return for a sum of 100, 000.

* Report on the papers of J. Southcott, 1750 – 1814, religious fanatic, and of her followers, 1801 – 1896.

In 1750 the newly-ascended Joseph I ( believing that no sons would be forthcoming-and indeed, his wife and he produced no further issue after 1746, as we truly know with hindsight ) proclaimed his eldest daughter the official heiress and granted her the " crown-princely " title Princess of Brazil ( but apparently not that Duke of Braganza ).

Still needing to perform to pay her creditors, she was again in London in 1750, where Burney heard her " thin cracked voice " in a concert on 18 May.