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The Scottish Militia Bill 1708 (known formerly as the Scotch Militia Bill) was a bill that was passed by the House of Commons and House of Lords of the...

revolts in 1715, 1719 and 1745; abortive French-backed invasion attempts in 1708 and 1744; and several unsuccessful plots. While the 1745 rising briefly threatened...

The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events. Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks...

The Rajput rebellion began in 1708, due to the harsh treatment of the Rajput Rajas by the Mughal emperor. It erupted into a two-year rebellion that forced...

The 1708 British general election was the first general election to be held after the Acts of Union had united the Parliaments of England and Scotland...

зауэ, romanized: Qəndjal zawə) or Crimean-Circassian War of 1708 was military conflict in 1708 fought between 7,000 Circassians led by Kurgoqo Atajuq and...

The administrative division reform of 1708 was carried out by Russian Tsar Peter the Great in an attempt to improve the manageability of the vast territory...

Cossack Hetmanate Zaporizhian Host. After the extremely harsh Great Frost of 1708–1709, the weakened Swedish army resumed operations in the spring of 1709...

launched by Richard Burchett of Rotherhithe on 5 August 1708. She was commissioned in July 1708 under the command of Captain Henry Lawson, who commanded...

7906827.01) is a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-1708, located in the constellation of Cygnus approximately 5,600 light years away...

of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1708 (as Azov Governorate) to 1779 and again from 1796 to 1928. Its capital was...

Whitehaven Harbour Act 1708 Act of Parliament Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act for preserving and enlarging the Harbour of Whitehaven, in...

Hercules Langford Rowley PC (c. 1714 – 25 March 1794) was an Irish politician and landowner. Rowley was born c. 1714. He was the only son of Frances (née...

1708 Pólit, provisional designation 1929 XA, is a very dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 29 kilometers in diameter...

The Murat Kuchukov Movement, also known as the 1708 Insurgency in Chechnya or the 1708 Insurgency in the North Caucasus, was caused by the oppressive...

renamed A-3 and patrolled Manila Bay during World War I USS Grampus (SP-1708), originally named Boothbay, was 1,708 tons and 126 feet long, built by Neafie...

Principalities and Sloboda Ukraine, thus extending its territory far south. In 1708, the Oka principalities and Sloboda Ukraine were incorporated into the first...

Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United...

the seventeenth century, enshrined by the typographical reform of 1708. Until 1708, the iotated /ja/ was written ⟨ꙗ⟩ at the beginning of a word. This...

"Vulgar Era". The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708, and became more widely used in the mid-19th century by Jewish religious...

Holy Roman Emperor the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne in September 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The British would later annex the...

Malta, and Sardinia. Athlone until 1703, Overkirk from 1704 to 1708 and Tilly from 1708. This was in part possible due to the help from Flemish citizens...

Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge (née Villiers; c. 1654 – 19 September 1708) was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne of Great Britain and governess to Prince...

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the Queen. The division within the ministry came to a head on 8 February 1708, when Godolphin and the Marlboroughs insisted that the Queen had to either...

1635), "Christian Era" (in English, in 1652), "Common Era" (in English, 1708), and "Current Era". Since 1856, the alternative abbreviations CE and BCE...

domains during his lifetime; he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover in 1708. As the senior Protestant descendant of James VI and I, George's great-grandfather...

in 1708. The game was originally part of the four-game collection The Art of Siege, and was also released as a stand-alone "folio" game. In 1708, during...

Species Plantarum, but the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) is considered "the founder of the modern concept of genera". The scientific...