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  • located behind the Dhaka High Court and built in 1679 by Khwaja Shahbaz, a merchant-prince of Dhaka during the vice-royalty of Prince Muhammad ...
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  • prefatio generalissima prefixed to his Opera omnia (1679); and also a general account of the manner and scope of his writings in an Apology published ...
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  • with the Stoics, through Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), David Hume (1711-1776), and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Latter day defenders include Morris ...
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  • law was never well observed at Paris, but in 1679 Louis XIV authorized the teaching of civil law in the faculty of decretals. Thus, the name "faculty ...
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  • through the streets with lit tar barrels, and since 1679 Lewes has been the setting of some of England's most extravagant 5th of November celebrations ...
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  • *Opera omnia theologica (London: Moses Pitt, 1679). *De iure praedae commentarius. Edited by G. Hamaker (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1868). The most commonly ...
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  • (1665–1666), the Great Plague of Vienna (1679), the Great Plague of Marseille ... 039; War, and the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679, which may have been due to ...
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  • thumb|The Ladies Catherine and Charlotte Talbot (1679), National Gallery of Ireland]] Charles II, who promoted a number of Roman Catholics at ...
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  • the Gedan Sumtse Ling Monastery in 1679 as well as Tibetan villages throughout the region. Yunnan enjoys independence by virtue of its distance ...
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  • Bossuet in his Discourse On Universal History (1679) formulated such theodicies, but Leibniz, who coined the term, was the most famous philosopher who ...
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  • by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the Castle is the oldest building in South Africa. It replaced an older fort made of clay and ...
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  • son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. When, in 1679, the Exclusion Bill was in danger of passing, Charles II dissolved the English Parliament. ...
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  • modeled on Milton entitled Order and Disorder in 1679; and the noted poet John Dryden would publish a libretto, The State of Innocence and the Fall of ...
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  • Simon Arnauld, marquis de Pomponne, in 1679, as he was viewed as having ... seized since the end of the Dutch War in 1679, but retained Strasbourg, ...
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  • become Trenton was established by Quakers in 1679, in the region then called the Falls of the Delaware, led by Mahlon Stacy from Sheffield, United Kingdom ...
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  • In 1679, Newton returned to his work on gravitation and its effect on the orbits of planets, with reference to Kepler's laws of planetary ...
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  • Denmark tried to regain control of Skåne in the Scanian War (1675-1679) but it ended in failure. Following the Great Northern War (1700–1721 ...
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  • In 1679, Lord La Salle of France directed the construction of the Griffin, the first European sailing vessel on the upper Great Lakes. That same ...
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  • Garden), a five-volume work first published in 1679, has been in use as a technical textbook for artists and students ever since. Some painters ...
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  • (husband of Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV) in 1679, and the conquest was completed in 1684 with the capture of Luxembourg city. The invasion caused ...
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