James. Watt (1736 ~ 18 19) was a famous British inventor and an important figure in the first industrial revolution. 1776 made the first practical steam engine. After a series of major improvements, this steam engine has become a "universal prime Mover" and has been widely used in industry. Watt opened a new era of human energy utilization and marked the beginning of the industrial revolution. In memory of this great inventor, later generations set the unit of power as "Watt".
2. The United States issued the famous Declaration of Independence.
1776 In April, the British North American colonies held a famous meeting in North America-the Continental Congress, and issued a famous declaration of independence. In the declaration, "we hold the following truth to be self-evident: all men are created equal, and the creator endowed them with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life, freedom and the right to pursue happiness."
1776 On July 4th, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson, declaring that North America 13 colony broke away from Britain and became an independent country, namely the United States of America.
1776165438+10 In October, the Continental Congress adopted the American Constitution, which was drafted by John Dickinson, the representative of the big bourgeoisie.
3. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (hereinafter referred to as The Wealth of Nations) was published.
1On March 9th, 776, Adam Smith, the father of human economics, published The Nature and Causes of National Wealth (hereinafter referred to as "The Wealth of Nations"), which marked that economics has since become an independent discipline. For more than 200 years, there has been a paranoid but true view in the history of economic thought: all countries that follow Smith's economic theory are rich, and all countries that do not follow Smith's economic theory are poor without exception.
4. The Qing court deleted books.
In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776),1month 16, Emperor Qianlong ordered the relevant yamen to delete and withdraw books. So after that, the Qing court wantonly deleted books and burned them. In the forty-seven years of Qianlong in Zhejiang province alone, books were destroyed 24 times and 538 books were destroyed, 13862 volumes. Hai Cheng, governor of Jiangxi Province, seized more than 8,000 banned books in one year. During the Qianlong period, 700,000 banned books were burned.
5. Jinchuan is flat
1776, that is, in the forty-first year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong finally put down the Jinchuan rebellion. This second Jinchuan campaign, which lasted for five years, killed more than 10,000 people and cost 70 million taels of silver, ended.
The purpose of pacifying Jinchuan is the same as pacifying Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong. The main purpose is to clear away the source of anti-Qing dynasty, search for the Ming Dynasty adherents lurking in Miaoshan Yaodong, and crack down on the southwest minority forces that support anti-Qing dynasty, so as to pacify the southwest and make the mountains and rivers of Qing dynasty long-term stability.
The Jinchuan Rebellion lasted for 29 years and exhausted the savings of our ancestors, but it became the name of "all-round old man".
References:
1776 _ Baidu Encyclopedia