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1780s

NOUN
  1. the decade from 1780 to 1789

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  • The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution.
  • From the late 1780s onwards evangelicals contributed substantially to the pamphlet literature against the slave trade.
  • The first measures to divide the common lands among local communities were taken in the late 1780s.
  • Then, in the mid-1780s, thousands of Loyalists came to the province in the wake of the American Revolution.
  • I have been successful in tracing the Cooper family line back to the 1780s, but so far cannot find any of Mark Cooper's direct descendants.
  • Largely as a result, the first Catholic parish in New York City was not established until the 1780s, St.
  • Masonic lodges set up charitable funds, and in several cities philanthropic societies were established in the 1780s to tap the wealth of the rich for the poor.
  • During the 1780s, community cornhuskings, barn raisings, logrollings, and quilting bees symbolized the overall cooperation among rural New Englanders.
  • Haydn composed many symphonies, divertimentos, and chamber pieces for secular entertainments; several of the late symphonies from the 1780s are in three movements without minuet and some contain fugal finales.
  • While in Europe in the 1780s, he became enamored of pasta — so much so that he stuck a feather in his inkwell, sketched out a design, and called it a “maccaroni” - making machine. All the Presidents’ Doodles
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