The Sugar Boycott was led by members of the Quaker faith, including important female voices such as Elizabeth Heyrick from Leicester who recognised the ways in which the sugar trade was helping to support the slave trade.
New York City was the first capital of the United States.
In much of the territory formerly occupied by the Antigonid Kingdom, modern states of Turkey, Syria, and a small part of modern Greece emerged. This area was where Macedonia was, being a Hellenistic dynasty, takes its name by Antígono, who in the distribution of the kingdom of Alexander the Great, after his death, Antígono was named the ruler of Macedonia (fatherland of the family of Alexander the Great and of many of his generals) and the said kingdom. The Antigonid Kingdom, almost occupied the entire territory of present-day Turkey, which means that the Ottoman Empire was the most important state (1299-1923) or kingdom that succeeded it.