1231-1808: | | | | Papal Inquisition from before birth until after line end |
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1478-1834: | |
1618-1648: | | | | 30 years war from before birth until age 12 |
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1625-1649: | | | | Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) from before birth until age 13 |
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1630-1642: | | | | English aggressively settle Massachusetts from before birth until age 6 |
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1639: | | | | 1st printing press in America (Massachusetts) at age 3 |
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1642-1649: | | | | English Civil War from age 6 to age 13 |
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1642: | | | | Pascal invents Calculator at age 6 |
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1643: | | | | Barometer invented at age 7 |
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1645: | | | | Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa at age 9 |
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1649-1660: | | | | Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from age 13 to age 24 |
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1650: | | | | Chattel slavery officially recognized at age 14 |
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1650: | | | | World pop. est. at 500 million at age 14 |
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1652: | | | | Air Pump invented at age 16 |
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1652-1654: | | | | Anglo-Dutch war from age 16 to age 18 |
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1654: | | | | Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat at age 18 |
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1655: | | | | Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 19 |
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1657: | | | | First Stockings at age 21 |
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1657: | | | | Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 21 |
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1660-1685: | | | | Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 24 to age 49 |
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1660: | | | | British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 24 |
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1660: | | | | Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 24 |
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1661: | |
1664-1665: | | | | Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 28 to age 29 |
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1664: | | | | English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 28 |
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1665: | | | | Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 29 |
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1666: | | | | 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 30 |
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1666: | | | | Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 30 |
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1668: | | | | Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 32 |
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1675-1676: | | | | King Phillip's War from age 39 to age 40 |
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1678: | | | | Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 42 |
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1679: | | | | Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 43 |
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1680: | | | | Dodo becomes extinct at age 44 |
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1681: | | | | Pennsylvania founded at age 45 |
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1682: | | | | Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 46 |
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1683: | | | | Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 47 |
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1684: | | | | Street lighting introduced in London at age 48 |
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