Search results for "1679" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. When, in 1679, the Exclusion Bill was in danger of passing, Charles II dissolved the English Parliament. ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- 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 ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- 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, ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- 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 ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- 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 ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- (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 ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- | 1673–1679 | Josiah Winslow |- | 1680–1692 | Thomas Hinckley ... and abusing his parents" in 1679, but his sentence was commuted ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- *The Habeas Corpus Act (1679) restated the ancient principle that indefinite and illegal imprisonment was unlawful; *The Glorious Revolution in ...74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
- (meaning one), was introduced by Christian Wolff (1679-1754), and it is opposed to dualism and pluralism. Monists differ considerably in their choice ...102 KB (16,119 words) - 03:59, 24 May 2024
