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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1755. 1755 (MDCCLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of...
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  • 1755 is the eleventh studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released on 3 November 2017. Unlike previous albums, it is entirely sung in...
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  • The 1755 earthquake may refer to 1755 Lisbon earthquake (great, tsunami), off the coast of Portugal on November 1 or to a style of architecture following...
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    Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (French: le Désiré), was King of France from 1814 to 1824...
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    Borough Market is a wholesale and retail market hall in Southwark, London, England. It is one of the largest and oldest food markets in London, with a...
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    In 1755, the British captured Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia, and they ordered the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–64)...
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    empire had declined, culminating with the Távora affair, the catastrophic 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and the accession of Maria I, the first ruling Queen of...
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  • 1755 (pronounced seventeen fifty-five) is an Acadian band formed in 1975 by Kenneth Saulnier, Pierre Robichaud, Roland Gauvin, Donald Boudreau and Ronald...
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    16 March 1755) of King's Weston, Gloucestershire, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland from 1727 to 1755 and in the...
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  • George Baillie Born 1755 Died 1809 (aged 51–52) Nationality Scottish Occupations Merchant slave trader author...
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    Archibald Gracie (June 25, 1755 – April 11, 1829) was a Scottish-born shipping magnate and early American businessman and merchant in New York City and...
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    Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on July 9, 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War at Braddock's Field in present-day...
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  • (libretto by King Frederick the Great, composed 1754 first performed Jan. 6, 1755) Johann Adolph Hasse – Ezio (Final version premiered Jan. 20 in Dresden)...
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    exchange for being allowed to retain the areas of Cochin they had annexed in 1755 and 1756. As a result of the agreement and because of Travancore's obligation...
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    James Parkinson FGS (11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist. He is best...
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  • from Karnak and Qift which become the nucleus of the Museo Egizio in Turin. 1755: At Bath, England, when the Priory or Abbey house is demolished and the foundations...
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    Agreement, or the Giyanti Treaty) was signed and ratified on February 13, 1755, between Prince Mangkubumi, the Dutch East India Company, and Sunan Pakubuwono...
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    listed road swing bridge over the River Stour in Sandwich, Kent. It opened in 1755 on a site that had been a crossing for centuries, and has had several iterations;...
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  • 1755 Lorbach, provisional designation 1936 VD, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter...
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    Thomas Grenville PC (31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile. Grenville was the second son of Prime Minister George...
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    Events from the year 1755 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Michel-Ange Duquesne...
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    Commodore Alexander Murray (July 12, 1755 – October 6, 1821) was an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United...
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  • The year 1755 in architecture involved some significant events. November 1 – 1755 Lisbon earthquake in Portugal. Among many buildings destroyed is the...
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    a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1755–1759. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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    carried out the Great Expulsion (Le Grand Dérangement) of the Acadians between 1755 and 1764. They forcefully deported approximately 11,500 Acadians from the...
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  • Events in world sport through the years 1751 to 1755. Events 1751 — George Taylor retired from the ring and became the landlord of the Fountain Inn in...
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  • Explanatory Notes was an 1824 study Bible, compiled by Thomas Williams (1755–1839). The Cottage Bible printed text deemed unsuitable for family reading...
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    Count Hans Henric von Essen (26 September 1755 – 28 June 1824) was a Swedish officer, courtier and statesman. Hans Henric von Essen was born at Kavlås...
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  • The year 1755 in science and technology involved some significant events. Immanuel Kant develops the nebular hypothesis in his Universal Natural History...
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