1231-1808: | | | | Papal Inquisition from before birth until after line end |
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1478-1834: | |
1649-1660: | | | | Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from before birth until age 5 |
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1655: | | | | Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 0 |
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1657: | | | | Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 2 |
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1657: | |
1660-1685: | | | | Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 5 to age 30 |
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1660: | | | | Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 5 |
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1660: | | | | British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 5 |
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1661: | |
1664: | | | | English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 9 |
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1664-1665: | | | | Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 9 to age 10 |
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1665: | | | | Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 10 |
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1666: | | | | 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 11 |
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1666: | | | | Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 11 |
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1668: | | | | Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 13 |
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1675-1676: | | | | King Phillip's War from age 20 to age 21 |
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1678: | | | | Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 23 |
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1679: | | | | Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 24 |
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1680: | | | | Dodo becomes extinct at age 25 |
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1681: | | | | Pennsylvania founded at age 26 |
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1682: | | | | Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 27 |
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1683: | | | | Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 28 |
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1684: | | | | Street lighting introduced in London at age 29 |
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1687: | | | | Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 32 |
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1688: | | | | Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 33 |
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1689-1702: | | | | Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 34 to age 47 |
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1692: | | | | The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 37 |
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1700-1721: | | | | Great Northern War from age 45 to age 66 |
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1701-1713: | | | | War of Spanish Succession from age 46 to age 58 |
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1701: | | | | Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 46 |
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1702-1714: | | | | Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 47 to age 59 |
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1707: | | | | Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 52 |
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1712: | | | | Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 57 |
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1712: | | | | Slave revolts in New York at age 57 |
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1714: | | | | Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 59 |
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1714: | | | | Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 59 |
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1714-1727: | | | | Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 59 until after line end |
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1716: | | | | Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 61 |
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1718: | | | | Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 63 |
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1718: | | | | Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 63 |
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1718: | | | | New Orleans founded at age 63 |
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1721: | | | | Rifles brought to America by the Swiss at age 66 |
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1722: | | | | Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch at age 67 |
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