He met the influential early neoclassical painter Raphael Mengs ( 1728 – 1779 ), and through Mengs was introduced to the pathbreaking theories of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717 – 1768 ).

Less than a month after Sentimental Journey was published, early in 1768, Sterne's strength failed him, and he died in his lodgings at 41 Old Bond Street on the 18 March, at the age of 54.

Prithvi Narayan Shah dedicated himself at an early age to the conquest of the Kathmandu Valley and the creation of a single state, which he achieved in 1768.

The Royal Academy of Arts was formed as the RSA's spin-off organisation in 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, two early members of the RSA, as a result of first exhibition of contemporary art.

They also convinced the Marathas to enter the conflict, and a large force of theirs, under the command of Morari Rao, joined with Colonel Smith at Ooscota in early August 1768.

Cookworthy's factory at Plymouth, established in 1768, used kaolin clay and china stone to make porcelain with a body composition similar to that of the Chinese porcelains of the early eighteenth century.

In early 1768 Balsamo left for Rome, where he managed to land himself a job as a secretary to Cardinal Orsini.

With the resignation of the secretary of state Henry Seymour Conway in early 1768, North became Leader of the Commons as well, and continued to serve under Chatham's successor, the Duke of Grafton.

In 1768, recognizing Allen's early genius, Chew sold Allen, then eight years old, and all members of his immediate family to Stokley Sturgis, a known abolitionist and owner of a neighboring property in Delaware.

In 1768, Chew sold Richard Allen, along with all members of his family, to his friend, neighbor and early abolitionist, Stokeley Sturgis.

As president of the College of New Jersey ( 1768 – 94 ; now Princeton University ), he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration.

Although he had from an early period championed the individuality of cultures-for example, in his This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity ( 1774 ), he also championed the individuality of persons within a culture ; for example, in his On Thomas Abbt's Writings ( 1768 ) and On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul ( 1778 ).

In the early 1770s, the Shawnee towns on the Scioto were the focus a Shawnee-led movement formed to resist British colonial expansion following the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

Some early modern scholars, including A. D. Calumet ( 1672 – 1757 ), Rosenmüller ( 1768 – 1835 ), and Kell ( 1807 – 1888 ), believed the source river Eden was a region of springs: " The Pishon and Gihon were mountain streams.

According to this view, names " Kven " and " Kainu ( u )" may share common roots, in early Umesaami dictionaries Kainolads and Kainahalja described Norwegian and Swedish men and women respectively ( Lexicon Lapponicum 1768 ).

Han Chinese tried to settle in the area as early as 1768.

It is named after the ship San Carlos, which visited in 1768, and grew in the early twentieth century around a factory which froze sheep carcasses.

Born as Giuseppi Bonomi in Rome, he made his early reputation there, then moved to London in 1767 where he was employed as a draughtsman from 1768 until 1781 in the practice of Robert and James Adam before setting up his own business.

Picturesque meaning literally " in the manner of a picture ; fit to be made into a picture " was a word used as early as 1703 ( Oxford English Dictionary ), and derived from an Italian term pittoresco, meaning, " in the manner of a painter ," William Gilpin's Essay on Prints ( 1768 ) defined picturesque as " ... a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture " ( xii ).

Berry was born in 1768, the son of a London merchant who died at an early age leaving a widow, 5 daughters and 2 sons in perilous financial circumstances.

Other early productions by Arnold from 1768 to 1770 display both originality and ingenuity ; this includes a centre seconds watch wound up by depressing the pendant once a day.

The Rapalje Children, 1768, children of trader of early New Amsterdam descent

After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768 there is no further information about the Aché until the end of the 19th century and early 20th century when several writers related the knowledge of local Paraguayan populations concerning the Aché but none observed them directly.

David Sherman Boardman ( 8 December 1768 – 2 December 1864 ) was an American lawyer, judge, and state assemblyman in the early United States.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

* Albert ( automobile ), an early 1920s British automobile

In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.

It arose from the intermingling of children of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English.

To this end, in the early 1880s, he purchased numerous newspapers in England, all of which were to advocate the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of " the British Republic ".

Slavery was introduced to the British colonies in the early 17th century, and enslaved people largely replaced indentured servants as an economic labor force during the 17th century.

It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when soldiers from Athy, County Kildare served the British East India Company.

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

Sources for events after this date are extremely scarce, but a tradition, reported as early as the mid-6th century by a British priest named Gildas, records that the British sent for help against the barbarians to Aetius, a Roman consul, probably in the late 440s.

The American group Vanilla Fudge and British group Yes based their early careers on radical re-arrangements of contemporary hits.

* Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing company in the early 20th century

* Appomattox ( banana boat ), a British steamship of the early 20th century

An early terrace wall supports a precinct in which are a stoa and some remains of temples ; these were excavated by the British School at Athens in 1894, but little was found.

Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

* British Empire, during the 19th to early 20th century

* British Raj, rule of India in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century

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.

The party moved towards social liberalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and came to be seen as being on the centre-left of British politics.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

In the early 19th century, British and Dutch governments signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 to exchange trading ports under their controls and assert spheres of influence, which indirectly set apart the two parts of Borneo into British and Dutch controlled areas.

Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.