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Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d(ə) sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the department...

The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...

comédien, 1773, remanié en 1778; Diderot II, Classiques Larousse 1934, p. 56 "Piano nobile - (Architecture): Definition". En.mimi.hu. Retrieved 2011-10-27...

(born 866) 1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (born 1552) 1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of...

(born 1720) 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (born 1778) 1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton...

slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge,...

1833) 1773 – Cassandra Austen, English painter and illustrator (died 1845) 1778 – Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish Ney player and composer (died 1846)...

building originally erected for the Stockholm Stock Exchange between 1773 and 1778 from construction drawings by Erik Palmstedt. The stock exchange moved out...

Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: The Iroquois, allied with Britain, massacre...

HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West...

Radcliffe, English author (born 1764) 1837 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (born 1778) 1849 – Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (born...

Simeonis et Hugonis Illuminatoris ad Terram Sanctam, edited by J. Nasmith, 1778, cited in: Elsie Robert, The earliest references to the existence of the...

(born 1722) 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (born 1724) 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (born 1716) 1816 –...

British peer and Member of Parliament (d. 1775) Mary Jones, English poet (d. 1778) March 20 – Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d. 1782) March 23 Stephen...

van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 1778–1962) was a Dutch learned society in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia).: 12  The society was founded in 1778 by naturalist...

Stewart-Mackenzie (1784–1843) 1840–1843 John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (1778–1863) 1843–1849 Sir Henry George Ward (1797–1860) 1849–1855 Sir John Young...

Voldemar Jannsen fonde le Perno Postimees (devenu Eesti Postimees en 1864, puis Postimees en 1891)." Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library...

1754) June 27 – Paul Jacques Malouin, French chemist and physicist (d. 1778) July 6 – Mary, Countess of Harold, English aristocrat and philanthropist...

bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...

Dittersdorf. It is not related to Mozart's ulterior stay in Strasbourg (1778), where he gave three concert performances on the piano. Havergal Brian's...

by Robert and James Adam, 1778 Design by the Adam brothers for a ceiling in Derby House, 1778 Piano style Adam, fabriqué en 1903 par le facteur de pianos...

Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: US forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia...

Southeast Asia. In his book Observations Made during a Voyage round the World (1778), he posited that the ultimate origins of the Polynesians might have been...

residence for Williem Cornelis Boers of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1778. A rococo fanlight at the entrance of the house has been ascribed to sculptor...

historic opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as il Nuovo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala (lit...

The city of Paris has notable examples of architecture from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It was the birthplace of the Gothic style, and has important...

pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, in the western suburbs of Paris, standing on Rue de Pontoise...

garlands at the top, with a portrait relief on a vase with cover, Sèvres, c.1778, soft-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Neoclassical...

arrived in the city in 1778, directed the reconstruction, and also undertook many smaller projects on churches and architecture within the city such as...