1768
| 1768 • First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopædia Britannica, edited by William Smellie, are published in Edinburgh; one hundred are planned. |
1797
Age: 29y
marriageAbigail Cadigan County Cork, Ireland ⇓ |
| 1797 • The first ship of the United States Navy, the frigate USS United States, is commissioned. |
1798
Age: 30y
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birth of childJohn J Buckley County Cork, Ireland ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1798 • A coup d'état is staged in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede makes an end to the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority). |
1851
Age: 83y
| 1851 • French coup of 1851: In what amounts to a coup, Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves the French National Assembly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. A year later he declares himself as Emperor Napoleon III, ending the Second Republic. |