Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

Late 18th century French revolutionary " decimal " clockface.

Due to fires in the 18th century which destroyed much of the medieval architecture, the city was rebuilt along Late Baroque and Neoclassical lines.

In the Late Middle Age, chronicles mention a Tigheci " republic ", predating the establishment of the Principality of Moldavia, situated near the modern town of Cahul in the southwest of Bessarabia, preserving its autonomy even during the later Principality even into the 18th century.

Late 17th c. or early 18th c. silk scroll painting of a scene from chapter 34 of Tale of Genji showing men playing in the garden watched by a woman sitting behind a screen.

Late in the 18th century, colza oil and rapeseed oil came into use as much cheaper substitutes.

* Late Sumerian — 20th – 18th c. BC,

Mills and Incorporation: Late 18th century to mid-19th century

Late 17th or early 18th century.

Late in the 18th century the gold supply which provided the economic base for Minangkabau royalty began to be exhausted.

Posset pot, Netherlands, Late 17th or early 18th century, Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue V & A Museum no.

* Late 18th century In 18th century America, a £ 2 note of North Carolina ( 1771 ) depicted the dove and olive with a motto meaning: " Peace restored ".

However, this form of writing is also attested in monuments of Ramesses II and it would, therefore, not be unexpected to find it in a document from the very late 18th Dynasty since the transition from the Early New Kingdom to the Late New Kingdom Form of writing had already occurred prior to the end of Horemheb's reign, as Frank Yurco once noted.

File: Victory banquet for the distinguished officers and soldiers at the Ziguangge ( Hall of Purple Glaze ). jpg | Late 18th century painting showing the reception for the victorious Qing Army from the Jinchuan Campaign ( 1771-1776 ) at the Hall of Purple Light in Zhongnanhai

* " The Viennese Fortepiano of the Late 18th Century ," Early Music ( April 1980 ), 158-62.

Late 18th century researchers also noted two bagpipes in Lapland: the sak-pipe and the wal-pipe.

Late in the 18th century John Wesley preached in Thame.

The history of the Old World ( Europe in particular, but also the Near East and North Africa ) is commonly divided into Antiquity, up to 476 CE ; the Middle Ages, from the 5th through the 15th centuries, including the Islamic Golden Age ( c. 750 CE – c. 1258 CE ) and the early European Renaissance ; the Early Modern period, from the 15th century to the late 18th, including the Age of Enlightenment ; and the Late Modern period, from the Industrial Revolution to the present, including Contemporary History.

* Late 18th century: John Wesley allowed women to preach within his Methodist movement.

Late 18th to early 19th century European scholarship assumed that the languages of the world reflected various stages in the development from primitive to advanced speech, culminating in the Indo-European languages, seen as the most advanced.

Late 18th and early 19th century London has been seen in a number of films, including Lady Hamilton ( 1941 ), Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ), A Bequest to the Nation ( 1973 ), Princess Caraboo ( 1994 ), Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), and the various versions of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

with a German and an Italian school flowering in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance ( 14th to 16th centuries ), followed by Spanish, French, English and Scottish schools of fencing in the modern period ( 17th and 18th centuries ).

In the 18th century Late Baroque / Rococo period, the French style of fencing with the smallsword and later with the foil ( fleuret ), in origin a training weapon for smallsword fencing.

) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B. C.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Late in the 20th century, caller ID and prepaid cellphone service became commonplace.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

Late in the nineteenth century astronomers such as Richard Proctor and Charles Piazzi Smyth investigated the astronomical orientations of the pyramids.

The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

Late 19th century and the 20th century were marked by large scale economic migrations abroad.

Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Late in the century the name came to be applied to a class of software for converting among digital signal formats, and including compander functions.

This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.

Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

* Late 10th century: Pomerelia was united with Poland.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

Late 15th century BCE, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.

In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.