The Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 108) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Kingdom of Great Britain. During the...
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Inland Revenue (redirect from Inland Revenue Act of 1849)
excise licence duty in 1867) Clocks and watches tax (1797-1798) Armorial Bearings tax (1798-1944) (converted to excise licence duty in 1869) Income Tax (1799-1802...
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History of taxation in the United Kingdom (redirect from Duties on Income Act 1800)
to 80 percent in 1917. Excise taxes were added on luxury imports such as automobiles, clocks and watches. There was no sales tax or value-added tax. The...
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Bath about six weeks after their first meeting. July – Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 imposed; it is repealed the following year. 24 July – Horatio...
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1798. Restrictions on Cash Payments Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 91) Bank (Scotland) Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 137) Importation Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 72) Incitement...
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3. c. 42) Aliens Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c. 50) Duties on Servants, etc. Act 1798 (38 Geo. 3. c. 41) Thomas Macklin's Paintings Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. ?)...
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list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. The number shown after each act's title is its...
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Guangxu Emperor (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
with watches and clocks, which had been a childhood fascination, some say in an effort to pass the time until Cixi's death. He also read widely and spent...
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Isaac Doolittle (section French and Indian War)
Wallingford on November 10, 1743. He opened a shop across from Yale College on Chapel Street, where he repaired, made, and sold not only clocks and watches, but...
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Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (redirect from On the beach (nautical))
usage, additional duties in running the ship's routine are included. 2. US Navy enlisted rating (QM) who, in addition to the above duties, assists with the...
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Peter the Great (redirect from List of people on the postage stamps of Batumi)
he left after being shown how to make watches, and carpeting coffins. Back in Holland he visited Harderwijk and Cleves. The Embassy next went to Leipzig...
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armories eventually spread the technology to other industries, such as clocks and watches, especially in the New England area. It wasn't until late in the 19th...
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Paris in the 18th century (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
palace on the Île de la Cité by Charles V in about 1370, and it also sounded the hour. Wealthy and noble Parisians began to have pocket watches, and needed...
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death." (6) Bailey, Chris H. (1975). Two Hundred Years of American Clocks & Watches. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 0139351302...
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Laneham (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
'Hood'). Draper was an eccentric collector of old coins, swords, pistols and watches. "For anything that might take his fancy, he was not particular as to...
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East Room (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1797. It was purchased by the White House in 1800, and hung in the East Room. (Rescued from the 1814 fire...
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History of Paris (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
French government buildings. Signs in German were placed on the main boulevards, and the clocks of Paris were reset to Berlin time. The German military...
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Protection (Restriction on Use of Lead Shot) (Wales) Regulations 2001 SI 2001/4003 The Radioactive Substances (Clocks and Watches) (England and Wales) Regulations...
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First Russian circumnavigation (section Nadezhda on Kamchatka, Sakhalin and in Japan (July 1804 – 1805))
occupations, mired in conflicts and gambling. On the contrary, all the officers had the hardest time since they had to keep watches and make weather observations...
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