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1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is named the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917. 1754 – English writer Sir Horace Walpole uses the word serendipity in a letter to a friend. 1871 – In the final denouement…
If France had not suffered so greatly under the reign of King Louis XV, with catastrophic losses such as those that stemmed from the Seven Years’ War between 1756 and 1763, the French Revolution would never have occurred and France today, like Britain, would continue to have a monarch as head of state. What do…
