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1780s

NOUN
  1. the decade from 1780 to 1789

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  • They were copied in the late 1780s by Belgians revolting against the headlong rationalisations of Joseph II.
  • The churchlike atmosphere of modern concert halls notwithstanding, Mozart debuted his piano concertos in the 1780s in Vienna's restaurants and guesthouses, where eating, drinking, gambling and sometimes shouting and brawling were not so unusual. Perhaps Some Schubert
  • King's Chapel, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a liberal Christian church in the Unitarian Universalist Association that started out, way back in 1686, as the first Anglican church in New England; it became independent and unitarian in the 1780s, but has continued to use the Book of Common Prayer in its own distinctive way ever since. Philocrites: Philocrites in the pulpit: King's Chapel, Dec. 13.
  • Several prints of the mid- 1780s suggest that his sexual inclinations were flagellatory.
  • Other large banks were chartered in the early 1780s by the various states, primarily to issue paper money called bank notes.
  • The citadel was evacuated to avoid political reprisals in the 1780s, but civilians remained in the fortified town until its decline in the mid-nineteenth century.
  • Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons.
  • This influx revitalized the Scottish Highlands: glens that had lain barren save eagles and rutting stags since the Highland Clearances of the 1780s rang once again with human activity. The Season: Scotland | Edwardian Promenade
  • During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter, as well as builder and architect, of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars.
  • However, this cosy relationship ended when Wilkinson's younger brother, William, returned from Europe in the late 1780s.
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