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The sudden onset of significant ocular pain, the absence of light perception in the final stages point to a glaucoma complicated by hemorrhage and probably infectious complications leading to death.
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It was a document signed by Ferdinand VI of Spain and John V of Portugal on January 13, 1750 to define the boundaries between their respective colonies in South America. -
Painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Executed in oil on canvas, the allegorical work uses human figures to represent the members of the Greco-Roman pantheon, the planets and the four continents. -
A series of international conflicts between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India.
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Called the “Triennium” by historiography, the Italian campaign, led by the young general Napoleon Bonaparte, led the French armies to invade Piedmont, Lombardy, the Republic of Venice and the Papal States.
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Is Thorvaldsen's revolutionary work, begun in Rome, finished in plaster and commissioned in marble.
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French troops decide to take the Royal Family out of Madrid, while a crowd of people protesting outside the palace gates watches them. The crowd is dissolved by a battalion of grenadiers, and the news causes a violent reaction of the people of Madrid against the French.