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unusual facts about Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774



Albanian Pashaliks

The Pashalik of Berat was a pashalik created in modern day central Albania by Ahmet Kurt Pasha in 1774 and dissolved after Ahmet's ally, Ibrahim Pasha of Berat was defeated by Ali Pasha in 1809, thus incorporating the pashalik, with the Pashalik of Janina.

Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Aloys married Karoline Gräfin von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (Köln, 14 November 1768 - Vienna, 11 June 1831) in Feldsberg on 15 November/16 November 1783.

André Grétry

He was, however, not without friends, and by the intercession of Count Gustaf Philip Creutz, the Swedish ambassador, Grétry obtained a libretto from Jean-François Marmontel, which he set to music in less than six weeks, and which, on its performance in August 1768, met with unparalleled success.

Anne Bailey

He served in Lord Dunmore's War and was killed on October 10, 1774 in an encounter with the Shawnee tribe forces led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Anne-Marie Rivier

Anne-Marie Rivier (known to her family as Marinette) was born on 19 December 1768, in Montpezat-sous-Bauzon in the Ardèche Department, south-central France.

Balyan family

Krikor died in 1831 after serving the empire during the reigns of four sultans, Abdul Hamid I (1774–1787), Selim III (1789–1807), Mustafa IV (1807–1808)), and Mahmud II (1808–1839).

Banks' Florilegium

Banks' Florilegium is a collection of copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771.

Benjamin Tasker

Benjamin Tasker, Sr. (1690–1768), Provincial Governor of Maryland (1752–1753)

Cameronian

In 1712 they publicly renewed their covenants at Auchensaugh Hill in Lanarkshire, and in 1713 their first presbytery was founded at Braehead, while a presbytery was formed in North America in 1774.

Caroline Eden

However, Governor Robert Eden disputed Harford's inheritance, and in 1774 tried to claim a part of the estate on behalf of his wife Caroline.

Château de Montgobert

The Château de Montgobert in the midst of the Forest of Retz, near Soissons, in Montgobert, Aisne, Picardy, is a neoclassical French château that was built for Antoine Pierre Desplasses between 1768-1775 on the site of an ancient seigneurie.

Christopher Columbus Foundation

Four "moderate" Scajoliani (Paolo Russo, Pietro Testoni, Andrea Orsini and Guglielmo Picchi) were present at the meeting, but did not sign the letter.

Committee of Sixty

The Committee of Fifty was formed May 16, 1774 in response to the news that the port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act.

Francisco Palóu

In 1774, Palou accompanied Captain Rivera's expedition to the Bay of San Francisco and on December 4, planted the cross on a hill he named "Lobos" (wolves), which sits in clear view of the Golden Gate and Pacific Ocean.

Giovanni Gallini

On 28 June 1774, with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel, he purchased premises in Hanover Square, where the three men built a splendid concert hall—the Hanover Square Rooms—95 feet by 30.

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke (c.1742-26 December 1774), of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, was a British Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

Henry Jerome de Salis

Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook on the Endeavour.

History of Rutgers University

It admitted its first students in 1771—a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor (Frederick Frelinghuysen) —and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

Jafargulu agha Javanshir

Jafargulu Agha was especially distinguished during the Russo-Persian War on 1804-1813, when he destroyed Iranians under Ordubad and Qafan, in 1806, by commanding horse cavalry of Karabakh.

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist and mineralogist, known as Johann Nepomuk Fuchs until 1854

John Ewer

There were replies from Charles Chauncy of Boston, in A Letter to a Friend, dated 10 December 1767, and in a Letter to Ewer himself, by William Livingston, governor of New Jersey, in 1768.

José López Portillo

He was the great-great-great grandson of José María Narváez (1768–1840), a Spanish explorer who was the first to enter Strait of Georgia in present-day British Columbia and the first to view the site now occupied by the city of Vancouver.

Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell

At the age of fourteen, he entered the University of Helmstedt where, after nearly a decade of taking courses offered by the philosophical and medical faculties, he took his M.D. in 1768.

Lycett

Joseph Lycett (1774–1825), portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia

Mehmed Bushati

He is credited with the creation of the Pashalik of Scutari and ruled it from 1768 until 1774, when he was succeeded by Mustafa Pasha Bushati.

Pinkerton Thugs

The band, which initially consisted of drummer/vocalist Paul Russo, guitarist/vocalist Micah Smaldone and bassist James Whitten drew influence from punk bands such as Sham 69, the Clash, Conflict, and Crass as well as Woody Guthrie's political ballads.

Pious Fund of the Californias

In 1768, with the expulsion of all the members of the Society from Spanish territory by the Pragmatic Sanction of King Charles III of Spain, the crown of Spain assumed the administration of the fund and retained it until Mexican independence was achieved in 1821.

Richard Russo

Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman.

Richard Wroughton

His first appearance was made at Covent Garden on 24 September 1768 as Zaphna in ‘Mahomet,’ and not apparently in Altamont in ‘The Fair Penitent’ (acted on the 12th), as all his biographers say.

Russelia equisetiformis

The name Russelia honors the Scottish naturalist Alexander Russell (1715-1768), given to the genus by the Dutch scientist Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin (1727-1817).

Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov

Named after the 18th-century Russian general Prince (Knyaz) Alexander Suvorov, the ship was completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

Savings and loan association

In the United Kingdom, the first savings bank was founded in 1810 by the Reverend Henry Duncan, Doctor of Divinity, the minister of Ruthwell Church in the Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Sazanami

Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1898), a Ikazuchi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Russo-Japanese War

Simeon Magruder Levy

The boy's birth date is not documented, but his bris (ritual circumcision), which is usually done on the eighth day, was performed on January 25, 1774 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

In 1774 his first American customer was the leading Philadelphia merchant, Willing, Morris & Co.; its influential partners included Robert Morris, a future financial architect of American independence from Britain, and Thomas Willing, a future president of the Bank of the United States.

St. Jovan Vladimir's Church

Gregory of Durrës, the archbishop of Dyrrhachium from 1768 to 1772, wrote there the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, the oldest work of Albanian Orthodox literature.

Stoughton Musical Society

From the inspiration of a singing school given in Stoughton in 1774 by Boston composer, William Billings, a group of male singers in town decided to form a singing society.

Suremphaa

In November, 1768 an army of ten thousand soldiers led by Kirtichandra Borbarua was dispatched this time via Raha and the Kachari kingdom accompanied by Jai Singh.

Takabuti

At that time the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as N. mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as Dermestes vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as Dermestes pollinctus Hope, 1834).

Tanna Ground Dove

The better-known was a female which was sketched by Georg Forster at Tanna during the second circumnavigation by James Cook to the South Sea in August 1774.

The Closet

The Celluloid Closet, a 1995 American documentary based on the book of the same name by Vito Russo

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

At the insistence of Talat Pasha, the treaty declared that the territory Russia took from Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned.

Uersfeld

However, for want of any archaeological investigation, it is uncertain from what time they date, but the grave robberies and Court Counsellor Comes’s (1774-1856) resulting collection in Cochem have yielded some idea of the time.

WarGames match

After no WarGames match was held in 1999, Vince Russo brought back WarGames in a new format he called "WarGames 2000", with the tagline "Russo's Revenge".

Whitworth Hall, County Durham

John was the father of Robert Shafto, better known as Bobby Shaftoe, who vastly increased the family fortune by his marriage in 1774 to Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park.

William Selby Lowndes

Richard Lowndes had represented Buckinghamshire in Parliament between 1741–1774.

Wiltshire Museum

The natural history collection includes remains of a plesiosaur called Bathyspondylus found at Swindon in 1774.

Xara

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th-century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.


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