Jedediah Jones1656 through 1756
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart)
1657 Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo
1657 First Stockings
1660-1685 Reign of King Charles II (Stuart)
1660 British Navigation Acts restrict commerce
1660 Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton
1661 Manometer
1664 English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired
1664-1665 Great Plague in London kills 68,596
1665 Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton)
1666 Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned
1666 1st Armenian Bible printed
1668 Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope
1675-1676 King Phillips War
1678 Polarization of light discovered (Huygens)
1679 Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment
1680 Dodo becomes extinct
1681 Pennsylvania founded
1682 Appearance of Halleys Comet
1683 Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation
1684 Street lighting introduced in London
1687 Newton publishes his Laws of Motion
1688 Plate glass cast for 1st time
1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)
1692 The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1701 Captain William Kidd hung for piracy
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
1707 Mount Fujiyama erupts
1712 Slave revolts in New York
1712 Last execution for witchcraft in England
1714 Farenheit invents mercury thermometer
1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover)
1714 Witch trials abolished in Prussia
1716 Christian teaching forbidden in China
1718 Peter the Great has son and heir murdered
1718 Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)
1718 New Orleans founded
1721 Rifles brought to America by the Swiss
1722 Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch
1727 Quakers demand abolition of slavery
1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover)
1729 Opium smoking prohibited in China
1733-1735 War of Polish Succession
1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed
1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession
1741 Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising
1742 Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer
1743 1st settlement in S. Dakota
1745 Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)
1749 Sign Language for deaf-mutes
1752 Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender
1752 Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
1754-1763 French-Indian war
1755 Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead
1756-1763 Seven years war
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