| 1231-1808: | |  |  |  | Papal Inquisition  from before birth until after line end | 
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  | 1478-1834: |  | 
  | 1660-1685: | |  |  |  | Reign of King Charles II (Stuart)  from before birth until age 12 | 
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  | 1675-1676: | |  |  |  | King Phillip's War  from age 2 to age  3 | 
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  | 1678: | |  |  |  | Polarization of light discovered (Huygens)  at age 5 | 
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  | 1679: | |  |  |  | Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment  at age 6 | 
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  | 1680: | |  |  |  | Dodo becomes extinct  at age 7 | 
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  | 1681: | |  |  |  | Pennsylvania founded  at age 8 | 
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  | 1682: | |  |  |  | Appearance of Halley's Comet  at age 9 | 
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  | 1683: | |  |  |  | Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation  at age 10 | 
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  | 1684: | |  |  |  | Street lighting introduced in London  at age 11 | 
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  | 1687: | |  |  |  | Newton publishes his Laws of Motion  at age 14 | 
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  | 1688: | |  |  |  | Plate glass cast for 1st time  at age 15 | 
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  | 1689-1702: | |  |  |  | Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)  from age 16 to age  29 | 
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  | 1692: | |  |  |  | The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA  at age 19 | 
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  | 1700-1721: | |  |  |  | Great Northern War  from age 27 to age  48 | 
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  | 1701-1713: | |  |  |  | War of Spanish Succession  from age 28 to age  40 | 
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  | 1701: | |  |  |  | Captain William Kidd hung for piracy  at age 28 | 
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  | 1702-1714: | |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)  from age 29 to age  41 | 
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  | 1707: | |  |  |  | Mount Fujiyama erupts  at age 34 | 
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  | 1712: | |  |  |  | Slave revolts in New York  at age 39 | 
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  | 1712: | |  |  |  | Last execution for witchcraft in England  at age 39 | 
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  | 1714: | |  |  |  | Farenheit invents mercury thermometer  at age 41 | 
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  | 1714-1727: | |  |  |  | Reign of King George I (Hanover)  from age 41 to age  54 | 
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  | 1714: | |  |  |  | Witch trials abolished in Prussia  at age 41 | 
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  | 1716: | |  |  |  | Christian teaching forbidden in China  at age 43 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | Peter the Great has son and heir murdered  at age 45 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | New Orleans founded  at age 45 | 
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  | 1718: | |  |  |  | Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)  at age 45 | 
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  | 1721: | |  |  |  | Rifles brought to America by the Swiss  at age 48 | 
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  | 1722: | |  |  |  | Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch  at age 49 | 
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  | 1727-1760: | |  |  |  | Reign of King George II (Hanover)  from age 54 until after line end | 
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  | 1727: | |  |  |  | Quakers demand abolition of slavery  at age 54 | 
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  | 1729: | |  |  |  | Opium smoking prohibited in China  at age 56 | 
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  | 1733-1735: | |  |  |  | War of Polish Succession  from age 60 to age  62 | 
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  | 1736: | |  |  |  | English statutes against witchcraft repealed  at age 63 | 
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  | 1740-1748: | |  |  |  | Austrian war of the succession  from age 67 until after line end | 
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  | 1741: | |  |  |  | Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising  at age 68 | 
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  | 1742: | |  |  |  | Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer  at age 69 | 
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  | 1743: | |  |  |  | 1st settlement in S. Dakota  at age 70 | 
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  | 1745: | |  |  |  | Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)  at age 72 | 
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