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1649/--/-- 0 *** Harlan, George - Born England
1649/--/-- 0 - Charles I is executed; the English Commonwealth (republic) begins.
1649/--/-- 0 - French artist Georges de La Tour paints Saint Irene Mourning Saint Sebastian.
1649/--/-- 0 - Oliver Cromwell suppresses a Catholic rebellion in Ireland.
1649/01/-- 0 - Cromwellian interregnum begins.
1650/--/-- 1 - Charles II lands in Scotland to renew the English Civil War.
1650/--/-- 1 - Dutch landscape artist Aelbert Cuyp paints the View of Dordrecht.
1650/--/-- 1 - Irish Bishop James Ussher establishes the date of creation at 4004 BC.
1650/--/-- 1 - Oratorios become a popular form of musical performance in Italy.
1650/--/-- 1 - The Holy Roman Empire and Sweden sign the Treaty of Nuremberg.
1650/--/-- 1 - The Ukiyo-e school of art begins to flourish in Japan about this time.
1650/--/-- 1 - The first coffeehouses are opened in London about this time.
1650/--/-- 1 - Whaling becomes an important industry in New England about this time.
1651/--/-- 2 - Charles II is crowned by the Scots; defeated at Worcester, he escapes to France.
1651/--/-- 2 - Navigation Acts affecting Colonies
1651/--/-- 2 - Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan, a defense of absolute monarchy.
1652/--/-- 3 - Cape Town is founded by the Dutch in South Africa.
1652/--/-- 3 - The English Navigation Acts (1651) lead to the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1653/--/-- 4 - English writer Izaak Walton publishes The Compleat Angler.
1653/--/-- 4 - French composer Jean Baptiste Lully writes the first minuet.
1653/--/-- 4 - Louis XIV becomes known as the Sun King after his role in the Ballet de la Nuit.
1653/--/-- 4 - Oliver Cromwell becomes the lord protector of England.
1654/--/-- 5 - Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat collaborate on theories of probability.
1654/--/-- 5 - French philosopher Blaise Pascal joins the Jansenist sect at Port-Royal.
1654/--/-- 5 - Poland and Russia are at war over possession of the Ukraine.
1654/--/-- 5 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and becomes a Roman Catholic.
1654/--/-- 5 - The Portuguese drive the Dutch from Brazil.
1654/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Westminster ends the first Anglo-Dutch War.
1655/--/-- 6 - Civil War, MD (Catholic & Protestant)
1655/--/-- 6 - Conquest of New Sweden, DL
1655/--/-- 6 - Dutch colonists under Peter Stuyvesant seize Swedish settlements in Delaware.
1655/--/-- 6 - The English capture Jamaica from Spain.
1655/--/-- 6 - The Little Northern War begins with Sweden invading Poland and capturing Warsaw.
1656/--/-- 7 - Diego Velazquez paints The Maids of Honor at the court of Spain.
1656/--/-- 7 - Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza is expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam.
1656/--/-- 7 - Dutch philosopher Christiaan Huygens patents the first pendulum clock.
1656/--/-- 7 - England joins France in the war against Spain.
1656/--/-- 7 - Italian artist and architect Giovanni Bernini designs the Piazza of St. Peter's, Rome.
1656/--/-- 7 - Quaker Persecution, MASS, VA, CONN
1656/--/-- 7 - The Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Denmark declare war on Sweden.
1657/--/-- 8 - Otto von Guericke demonstrates that it is possible for a vacuum to exist.
1657/--/-- 8 - The Swedes attack Denmark and besiege Copenhagen.
1658/--/-- 9 - Aurangzeb deposes his father Shah Jahan as Mogul emperor of India.
1658/--/-- 9 - Dutch genre artist Jan Vermeer paints The Milkmaid.
1658/--/-- 9 - Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam describes red blood cells.
1658/--/-- 9 - French colonists found the city of Saint-Louis on the Senegal River in Africa.
1658/--/-- 9 - Leopold I succeeds Ferdinand III as Holy Roman Emperor.
1658/--/-- 9 - Oliver Cromwell dies; he is succeeded by his son Richard as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 10 - French explorers Radisson and Groseilliers explore Minnesota.
1659/--/-- 10 - Richard Cromwell resigns as lord protector of England.
1659/--/-- 10 - The Peace of the Pyrenees ends a 24-year war between France and Spain.
1660/--/-- 11 *** Duck, Elizabeth (Harlan) [Wife] - Born to Duck, Ezekeliah and Hoope, Hannah (Duck) Shankill, Armaugh, Ireland
1660/--/-- 11 - Charles II is restored to the English throne by Parliament.
1660/--/-- 11 - Dutch farmers (Boers) settle in South Africa.
1660/--/-- 11 - Dutch genre artist Gabriel Metsu paints The Sick Child.
1660/--/-- 11 - English public servant Samuel Pepys begins his Diary.
1660/--/-- 11 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, gains control of Prussia from Poland.
1660/--/-- 11 - Louis XIV of France marries Marie Therese of Spain.
1660/--/-- 11 - Peter Stuyvesant founds the first permanent settlement in New Jersey at Bergen (Jersey City).
1660/--/-- 11 - The Bambara kingdom begins to flourish on the upper Niger about this time.
1660/--/-- 11 - The Peace of Copenhagen ends the war between Sweden and Denmark.
1660/--/-- 11 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 11 - The Peace of Oliva ends the war between Sweden, Poland, Austria and Brandenburg.
1660/--/-- 11 - Theaters are reopened in England; the period of Restoration drama begins.
1660/05/09 11 - Charles Stuart restored to throne of England as Charles II.
1661/--/-- 12 - Charles II orders that Cromwell's corpse be disinterred, hanged and beheaded.
1661/--/-- 12 - Chinese pirate Koxinga drives the Dutch from Formosa (Taiwan).
1661/--/-- 12 - Dutch-born artist Peter Lely is made court painter to Charles II.
1661/--/-- 12 - Emperor K'ang-hsi succeeds to the throne in China.
1661/--/-- 12 - The English acquire Bombay from Portugal.
1661/--/-- 12 - The first Bible printed in North America is John Elliot's translation into Algonquian.
1661/04/03 12 - Charles II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William
1662/--/-- 13 - Charles II grants a charter to the Royal Society of London for Natural Knowledge.
1662/--/-- 13 - France purchases Dunkerque from England.
1662/--/-- 13 - French architect Andre Le Notre designs the gardens for the Palace of Versailles.
1662/--/-- 13 - Robert Boyle develops his theory of gases (now known as Boyle's Law).
1662/--/-- 13 - The Portuguese surrender Tangier to England.
1662/--/-- 13 - The Theatre Royal is built in Drury Lane, London.
1663/--/-- 14 - Dutch genre artist Jan Steen paints the Woman Undressing.
1663/--/-- 14 - The Ottoman Turks invade Hungary.
1663/--/-- 14 - The first turnpike (toll) roads are established in England.
1664/--/-- 15 - England seizes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York.
1664/--/-- 15 - The Austrians defeat the Turks at Saint Gotthard and conclude a 20-year truce.
1664/--/-- 15 - The French East India Company is founded.
1664/--/-- 15 - The Trappists order of monks is founded at La Trappe in France.
1665/--/-- 16 - An outbreak of the Great Plague begins in London.
1665/--/-- 16 - Charles II succeeds Philip IV as king of Spain.
1665/--/-- 16 - Dutch genre artist Gerard Ter Borch paints the Flea Hunt.
1665/--/-- 16 - England and Portugal defeat Spain and establish Portuguese independence.
1665/--/-- 16 - Jean Baptiste Colbert becomes minister of finance for Louis XIV.
1665/--/-- 16 - Robert Hooke publishes his microscope observations in Micrographia.
1665/--/-- 16 - The Portuguese invade the Kingdom of Kongo and kill the monarch Antonio I.
1665/--/-- 16 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.
1665/--/-- 16 - The first horse race track in North America is constructed on Long Island.
1666/--/-- 17 - British scientist Isaac Newton completes his theory of fluxional calculus.
1666/--/-- 17 - Large sections of London are destroyed in the Great Fire.
1666/--/-- 17 - Moliere's play The Misanthrope is performed for the first time.
1666/--/-- 17 - Puritans from Connecticut settle in New Jersey.
1666/--/-- 17 - Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the messiah and founds a Jewish sect.
1666/--/-- 17 - The Alawite dynasty assumes power in Morocco.
1666/--/-- 17 - The French join the Dutch in the war with England.
1667/--/-- 18 - English poet John Milton writes Paradise Lost.
1667/--/-- 18 - Japanese poet Basho begins to compose his haiku poetry.
1667/--/-- 18 - Louis XIV begins the War of Devolution and captures the Spanish Netherlands.
1667/--/-- 18 - Louis XIV sponsors the first official Salon art exhibition at the Louvre.
1667/--/-- 18 - Mexico City Cathedral is completed.
1667/--/-- 18 - Suleiman succeeds Abbas II as shah of Persia (Iran).
1667/--/-- 18 - The Dutch acquire Suriname from the British in exchange for Manhattan.
1667/--/-- 18 - The Dutch destroy the English fleet at anchor in the Medway.
1667/--/-- 18 - The Peace of Breda ends the war between the English, French and Dutch.
1667/--/-- 18 - The building of the Paris Observatory is begun.
1668/--/-- 19 - A Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic is formed against France.
1668/--/-- 19 - By the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle France gives up its conquests but keeps Flanders.
1668/--/-- 19 - By the Treaty of Lisbon Spain recognizes the independence of Portugal.
1668/--/-- 19 - French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine begins publishing his Fables.
1668/--/-- 19 - Jacques Marquette founds the first settlement in Michigan at Sault Saint Marie.
1668/--/-- 19 - King John II of Poland abdicates; he is succeeded by Michael Wisniowiecki.
1669/--/-- 20 - French courtesan Madame de Sevigne begins writing her Letters.
1669/--/-- 20 - German Alchemist Hennig Brandt makes phosphorus for the first time.
1669/--/-- 20 - Louis Le Vau begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles for Louis XIV.
1669/--/-- 20 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, killing 20,000.
1669/--/-- 20 - Venice surrenders Crete to the Ottoman Turks.
1670/--/-- 21 - English architect Sir Christopher Wren begins rebuilding Saint Paul's Cathedral.
1670/--/-- 21 - The Don Cossacks under Stenka Razin rebel against Russian rule.
1670/--/-- 21 - The English establish a settlement at Charles Towne (Charleston), South Carolina.
1670/--/-- 21 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded.
1671/--/-- 22 - Buccaneers under Sir Henry Morgan capture the city of Panama.
1672/--/-- 23 - Astronomer Giovanni Cassini becomes the first director of the Paris Observatory.
1672/--/-- 23 - Grenades become an important weapon; the French army forms grenadier companies.
1672/--/-- 23 - Jean Baptiste Lully produces the first French operas.
1672/--/-- 23 - Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban founds the French army engineering corps.
1672/--/-- 23 - The French and British declare war on the Dutch.
1672/--/-- 23 - William III prince of Orange leads the defense of the Netherlands.
1673/--/-- 24 - Leibniz begins to develop his theories of differential and integral calculus.
1673/--/-- 24 - Marquette and Jolliet explore the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River.
1673/--/-- 24 - The Polish army under John Sobieski defeats the Turks at Cochim (Khotin).
1673/--/-- 24 - The Test Act excludes Catholics from public office in England.
1673/--/-- 24 - The first mail service in North America is established between New York and Boston.
1674/--/-- 25 - Early American artist the Freake limner paints portraits of the Freake family.
1674/--/-- 25 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France.
1674/--/-- 25 - John Sobieski is elected as King John III of Poland.
1674/--/-- 25 - Maratha leader Sivaji establishes a kingdom in Maharashtra, India.
1674/--/-- 25 - The Dutch under William III make peace with England.
1674/--/-- 25 - The Treaty of Westminster establishes New Yorkers as British subjects.
1675/--/-- 26 - Conflict begins between the Indians under King Philip and New England settlers .
1675/--/-- 26 - Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza finishes his Ethics.
1675/--/-- 26 - English dramatist William Wycherley writes The Country Wife.
1675/--/-- 26 - King Philip's War (Indian) MASS, RI
1675/--/-- 26 - The Prussians under Frederick William defeat the Swedes at Fehrbellin.
1675/--/-- 26 - The Royal Observatory is established at Greenwich.
1676/--/-- 27 - Bacon's Rebellion, VA
1676/--/-- 27 - English playwright Sir George Etherege writes Man of Mode.
1676/--/-- 27 - German astronomer Ole Romer discovers the velocity of light.
1676/--/-- 27 - Indians in New England are subdued after the year-long King Philip's War.
1676/--/-- 27 - The Sikhs under Guru Gobind Singh revolt against Mogul rule in India.
1676/--/-- 27 - The Swedes defeat the Danes at the Battle of Lunden.
1677/--/-- 28 - Charles II appoints Henry Purcell as court composer.
1677/--/-- 28 - English author John Dryden writes the tragedy All for Love.
1677/--/-- 28 - French dramatist Jean Racine writes the tragedy of Phedre.
1677/--/-- 28 - William III prince of Orange marries Mary, daughter of the Duke of York.
1678/--/-- 29 - Charles Le Brun designs the Hall of Mirrors for the Palace of Versailles.
1678/--/-- 29 - Comtesse de La Fayette writes the novel La Princesse de Cleves.
1678/--/-- 29 - French explorer Louis Hennepin discovers Niagara Falls.
1678/--/-- 29 - John Bunyan publishes the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress.
1678/--/-- 29 - The Hungarians rebel against Habsburg rule.
1678/--/-- 29 - The Treaty of Nijmegen establishes peace between France, the Dutch and Spain.
1679/--/-- 30 - The English Parliament passes the Habeas Corpus Act.
1680/--/-- 31 - Antonio Stradivari opens his violin workshop in Cremona, Italy.
1680/--/-- 31 - Sadler's Wells theater opens in London.
1680/--/-- 31 - The Comedie Francaise is founded in Paris.
1681/--/-- 32 - Aurangzeb suppresses a Rajput revolt and campaigns against Hindu kingdoms in India.
1681/--/-- 32 - English Quaker William Penn is granted the Providence of Pennsylvania.
1681/--/-- 32 - John Dryden publishes his satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel.
1681/--/-- 32 - The dodo, a large flightless bird, becomes extinct.
1682/--/-- 33 - Edmund Halley observes the Great Comet, which is later named for him.
1682/--/-- 33 - French explorer La Salle navigates the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
1682/--/-- 33 - Peter the Great succeeds Fyodor III as tsar of Russia.
1682/--/-- 33 - The Palace of Versailles becomes the French royal residence.
1682/--/-- 33 - The Spanish establish the first settlement in Texas at Yselta (near El Paso).
1682/--/-- 33 - William Penn founds the city of Philadelphia.
1683/--/-- 34 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi conquers Formosa (Taiwan).
1683/--/-- 34 - Louis XIV secretly marries Madame de Maintenon .
1683/--/-- 34 - The Turks lay siege to Vienna but are defeated by Imperial and Polish forces.
1683/--/-- 34 - Van Leeuwenhoek's microscope drawings of Protozoa are published.
1683/--/-- 34 - William Penn makes a peace treaty with the Delaware Indians.
1684/--/-- 35 - England abandons Tangier to the Moroccans.
1684/--/-- 35 - La Salle claims Louisiana, a region from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, for France.
1684/--/-- 35 - The Dutch whaling fleet at Spitsbergen (Svalbard) numbers 246 vessels.
1685/--/-- 36 - Charles II of England dies; he is succeeded by his brother James II.
1685/--/-- 36 - Increase Mather becomes president of Harvard College.
1685/--/-- 36 - Japanese Bunraku (puppet theater) is performed in Osaka about this time.
1685/--/-- 36 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes and exiles thousands of French Huguenots.
1685/--/-- 36 - Rice cultivation begins in North America.
1685/--/-- 36 - The Duke of Monmouth rebels against James II; he is captured and executed.
1685/--/-- 36 - The Huguenots begin a silk industry in London and settle in the American colonies.
1685/04/03 36 - James II crowned King of England and Scotland at Westminster Abbey by William Sa
1686/--/-- 37 - Henri de Tonty establishes the first European settlement in Arkansas.
1686/--/-- 37 - The League of Augsburg is formed as a coalition of European states against France.
1686/--/-- 37 - The Turks are expelled from Budapest by a Habsburg army.
1687/--/-- 38 - English actress and royal mistress Nell Gwynne dies.
1687/--/-- 38 - Isaac Newton publishes Principia, establishing his laws of motion and gravity.
1687/--/-- 38 - James II issues a Declaration of Indulgence suspending the laws against Catholics.
1687/--/-- 38 - The city of Lima, Peru, is virtually destroyed by an earthquake.
1688/--/-- 39 - English Protestants demand a Glorious Revolution against Catholicism.
1688/--/-- 39 - Insurance underwriters begin meeting at Lloyd's Coffee House in London.
1688/--/-- 39 - Louis XIV declares war on the Holy Roman Empire and captures Heidelberg.
1688/--/-- 39 - William of Orange is invited to England as king; James II escapes to France.
1689/--/-- 40 - British composer Henry Purcell writes the opera Dido and Aeneas.
1689/--/-- 40 - Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
1689/--/-- 40 - England and the Netherlands join the Grand Alliance against France.
1689/--/-- 40 - French and Indian allies attack English colonists during King William's War.
1689/--/-- 40 - William and Mary are proclaimed king and queen of England.
1689/01/08 40 - James II declared to have abdicated by Parliament.
1689/02/03 40 - William III and Mary II proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Irel
1689/04/01 40 - William III and Mary II crowned King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
1690/--/-- 41 - Benjamin Harris publishes the first American newspaper in Boston.
1690/--/-- 41 - Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora publishes The Misadventures of Alfonso Ramirez.
1690/--/-- 41 - Jose Churriguera becomes court architect to Philip V of Spain.
1690/--/-- 41 - Philosopher John Locke publishes his Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1690/--/-- 41 - Spain joins the War of Grand Alliance against France.
1690/--/-- 41 - The French defeat the English fleet at the Battle of Beachy Head.
1690/--/-- 41 - William III defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1691/--/-- 42 - Juana Ines de la Cruz writes a defense of women's rights Reply to Sister Philotea.
1691/--/-- 42 - The Irish rebellion ends with the Treaty of Limerick.
1692/--/-- 43 *** Harlan, James [Son] - Born to Harlan, George and Duck, Elizabeth (Harlan) Pennsylvania
1692/--/-- 43 - Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an earthquake; the city of Kingston is founded.
1692/--/-- 43 - Salem Witchcraft Trials, MASS
1692/--/-- 43 - The Macdonald clan are massacred by the Campbells at Glencoe in Scotland.
1692/--/-- 43 - The first English patent for a wallpaper design is issued.
1692/--/-- 43 - Witchcraft trials are held at Salem in New England.
1693/--/-- 44 - James Blair founds William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1693/--/-- 44 - John Ray publishes the first major classification of animals.
1694/--/-- 45 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- 45 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/12/28 45 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 47 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 47 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 47 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 47 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 48 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 48 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 48 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 48 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 48 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 48 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 49 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 49 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 49 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
1699/--/-- 50 - Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice sign the Peace of Karlowitz treaty with Turkey.
1699/--/-- 50 - Francis Moore's Vox stellarum, known as Old Moore's Almanac, is published.
1699/--/-- 50 - Japanese master ceramicist Ogata Kenzan opens his kiln at Narutaki.
1699/--/-- 50 - Peter the Great changes the Russian New Year from September 1 to January 1.
1699/--/-- 50 - William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
1700/--/-- 51 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 51 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 51 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 51 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 51 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 51 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 51 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 51 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 51 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 52 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 52 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 52 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 52 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 52 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 52 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 53 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 53 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 53 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 53 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 53 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 53 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 53 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 53 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 53 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 54 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 54 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 54 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
1704/--/-- 55 - Augustus II is deposed; Stanislaw I is crowned king of Poland.
1704/--/-- 55 - Issac Newton publishes his theory of color and light in Opticks.
1704/--/-- 55 - John Campbell founds the Boston News-Letter, the first successful American newspaper.
1704/--/-- 55 - The Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the French at Blenheim.
1704/--/-- 55 - The English capture Gibraltar from Spain.
1704/--/-- 55 - The Indians and the French massacre British settlers in Deerfield, Mass.
1705/--/-- 56 - Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1758.
1705/--/-- 56 - Nicolas Hawksmoor designs Blenheim Palace for the Duke of Marlborough.
1705/--/-- 56 - The English Navy occupies Barcelona.
1706/--/-- 57 - Eugene of Savoy defeats the French at Turin and drives them from Italy.
1706/--/-- 57 - George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer is produced.
1706/--/-- 57 - The Duke of Marlborough conquers the Spanish Netherlands.
1707/--/-- 58 - Emperor Aurangzeb dies; the Mogul empire begins to decline in India.
1707/--/-- 58 - Great Britain is formed by the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
1707/--/-- 58 - John V succeeds Peter II as king of Portugal.
1707/--/-- 58 - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan; an earthquake kills 200,000 in Tokyo.
1707/--/-- 58 - The British attack the French colony of Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1707/--/-- 58 - The Duke of Berwick routs the allied forces at Almanza in Spain.
1707/03/-- 58 - Act of Union combines England and Scotland as Kingdom of Great Britain.
1708/--/-- 59 - French forces under Vendome are defeated by Marlborough at Oudenarde.
1708/--/-- 59 - Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh is assassinated; the Moguls persecute the Sikhs.
1708/--/-- 59 - The British capture the island of Minorca from Spain.
1709/--/-- 60 - Abraham Darby builds a blast furnace using coke for casting iron.
1709/--/-- 60 - Charles XII of Sweden flees to the Ottoman Empire.
1709/--/-- 60 - Italian musician Bartolommeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709/--/-- 60 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava.
1709/--/-- 60 - Steele and Addison's periodical The Tatler is published in London.
1709/--/-- 60 - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet.
1709/--/-- 60 - The first Copyright Act becomes law in Britain.
1710/--/-- 61 - Augustus II regains the Polish throne.
1710/--/-- 61 - Charles XII persuades the Turks to attack Russia.
1710/--/-- 61 - French forces under Vendome defeat the allies at Villaviciosa in Spain.
1710/--/-- 61 - George Berkeley publishes a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
1710/--/-- 61 - The British seize Acadia (Nova Scotia) from the French.
1710/--/-- 61 - The Meissen porcelain factory is founded near Dresden in Germany.
1711/--/-- 62 - Joseph I dies; Charles VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1711/--/-- 62 - Publication of The Tatler ceases; Steele and Addison introduce The Spectator.
1711/--/-- 62 - The French found the first permanent settlement in Alabama at Mobile.
1711/--/-- 62 - The Tuscarora War begins in North Carolina when Indians massacre 130 colonists.
1711/--/-- 62 - The building of the baroque Zwinger complex begins in Dresden, Germany.
1712/--/-- 63 - Carolina is divided into north and south colonies.
1712/--/-- 63 - English poet Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock.
1712/--/-- 63 - The New England whaling industry expands rapidly with the hunting of sperm whales.
1713/--/-- 64 - Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing for a female heir.
1713/--/-- 64 - France cedes Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland to Britain.
1713/--/-- 64 - Frederick William I succeeds Frederick I as king of Prussia.
1713/--/-- 64 - Sicily is ceded to the House of Savoy; Victor Amadeus II is crowned as king.
1713/--/-- 64 - Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.
1713/--/-- 64 - The Asiento Treaty establishes British rights to the African slave trade.
1713/--/-- 64 - The Peace of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession.
1714/--/-- 65 *** Harlan, George - Died Brandywine Creek, Kennet, Pennsylvania
1714/--/-- 65 - German composer George Frideric Handel makes London his permanent home.
1714/--/-- 65 - Grinling Gibbons is appointed as master carver in wood to George I.
1714/--/-- 65 - Queen Anne of England dies; she is succeeded by George I, Elector of Hanover.
1714/10/20 65 - George I crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by Thomas Tenison, A
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MRI
In 1649 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1714 War Making by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
had been discontinued.
In 1649 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:57:24