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Tulipa javana Rumph "Juan de Cuéllar's expedition to the Philippines" (1786-1794); botanical determination: Crinum amabile.

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2020-06-01

(1 June 1794) A British fleet under Richard Howe clash with a French fleet under Villaret-Joyeuse in the Atlantic Ocean around 400 nautical miles west of The action becomes known as the Glorious First of June or the Fourth Battle of Ushant.

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2020-06-01





1794年の今日は『栄光の6月1日』の海戦が行われた日です。
ウェサン島沖西方400海里の大西洋上でイギリス(グレートブリテン王国)と第一共和政フランスの両艦隊が衝突。フランス革命戦争における最初にして最大級の海戦となりました。

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2020-06-01

The 5th most popular book contributed to by an Australian organisation is – drum roll – the 1st volume ever published on Australian fauna: George Shaw's 1794 "Zoology of New Holland" (from 's rare book collection) https://t.co/zTB8aG35PV

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2020-05-30

Born 1770 Princess Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of George III. The family celebrated her 24th in 1794 with music & a late supper before bed at midnight.
She later married the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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2020-05-22

Edward Jones, 'Bardd y Brenin'.

☀️Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards ... (1784, 1794 and 1825 editions)

☀️The Bardic Museum, of primitive British literature ... (1802)

☀️Hên Ganiadau Cymru. Cambro-British melodies ... (1825)

Now online!
https://t.co/ydED1veExw

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2020-05-20

🌄 Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: .
London: Printed and sold by the author . . ;1794-1796.
https://t.co/WKA8FL1Z9v

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2020-05-14

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10 mai 1794: Mort de Madame Élisabeth.

Décrétée coupable d'être la sœur de Louis XVI avant même d'être déférée devant le tribunal révolutionnaire, l'accusateur public, Fouquier-Tinville, obtint aisément la condamnation de la Princesse qui fut guillotinée à Paris

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2020-05-10

Le 10 mai 1794, Élisabeth de France, dite Madame Élisabeth, est guillotinée à 30 ans. Pieuse et fidèle à son frère, Louis XVI, elle fut enfermée à la prison du Temple avant son exécution avec l'ancien roi, sa belle-sœur, Marie-Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse de France et Louis XVII.

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2020-05-10

A portrait of English watercolour painter Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) by George Dance (1798). A close friend of J.M. W Turner, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794 but his stellar career was extinguished by consumption - aged just 27 - He's buried in St Paul's

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2020-04-28

🌄 Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: .
London: Printed and sold by the author . . ;1794-1796.
https://t.co/djItYQgyg0

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2020-04-26

A lady sits reading by the sea.
A beautifully serene image from the October 1795 issue of Niklaus Heideloff’s periodical ‘Gallery of Fashion’. His beautiful coloured engravings were published between 1794 and 1803.

https://t.co/dYomtHM2ie

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2020-04-26

C is for Cheese, well to be exact! From Capodimonte cheese seller with a wheel of it, Italy, c. 1755, and in London, you could buy it from Mrs Holt's on the Strand, along with some Genoese Trade card after Hogarth, engr. c. 1794 by Anna Maria Ireland

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2020-04-22

On this day in 1794, German botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was born. Martius focused most of his work on Brazil - collecting thousands of specimens from the region. https://t.co/7kluizARa8

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2020-04-18

Died 17Apr1794 the pioneering French midwife, Angélique du Coudray. Born in 1712, the same year as the King of Prussia (Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great) and the Enlightenment ... https://t.co/kYW0PXzXRy

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2020-04-17