Reuben Blish1683 through 1738
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1660-1685 Reign of King Charles II (Stuart)
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1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed
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