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  • entitled, An Almanac for New England for the year 1639. Harvard became the first center for the annual publication of almanacs with various editors including ...
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  • exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cubic miles, 1639 km³). It is the 14th largest lake in the world and has a shoreline 712 miles (1146 km) long. ...
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  • *Opera omnia (5 vol, 1639) *Opuscula omnia (1530) *Commenatry on Saint Thomas' Summa theologiae (1540) *De divina institutione Pontificatus ...
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  • In 1639, when the First Bishops' War broke out, Charles sought ... |Catherine, Princess of England||January 29, 1639||January 29, 1639 ...
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  • as well as Archbishop of Canterbury, on June 28, 1639. Laud included the manuscript together with a number of other documents, part of the third of a ...
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  • charged against him by his opponents. About March 1639, Williams was re-baptized himself and then immediately proceeded to re-baptize 12 others. Thus ...
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  • By 1639, the family had moved to Rouen where Étienne became a tax ... * Essai pour les coniques (1639) * Experiences nouvelles touchant le ...
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  • at sea in the Battle of the Downs in (1639). The strength of Spain's tercios—the dominant fighting unit in European land campaigns for ...
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  • Allegory of Painting. Orazio suddenly died in 1639. It is known that Artemisia had already left England by 1642, when the civil war was just starting. ...
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  • scholars to edit the draft, publishing it in 1639. The topics covered by his book are as follows: Needham, Volume 6, Part 2, 66. *The Fundamentals ...
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  • [[Image:Havana 1639b.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Havana Bay, c. 1639.]] [[File:FaroCastillodelMoro-Cuba-ene2017.jpg|thumb|[[Castillo de los Tres Reyes ...
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  • missionaries and traders from Japan in 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate enforced kaikin (海禁, "maritime restrictions"), a series of ...
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  • series of conflicts and civil wars between 1639 and 1651 in the kingdoms of ... his forces to the border in the spring of 1639 to end the rebellion. After ...
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  • Cinq-Mars had become the royal favorite by 1639, but, contrary to Cardinal Richelieu's belief, he was not easy to control. The young marquis ...
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  • Its House of Assembly began meeting in 1639. Among the initial important ... creating a Parliamentary democracy in 1639. During the colonial period ...
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  • founded the town of Pocasset, renamed Portsmouth in 1639. Gathered on March 7, 1638, the group founded Rhode Island's first civil government, agreeing ...
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  • written not by himself but by John Ponce of Cork in 1639 (Thorburn 1918). ==Justifications and applications== Ockham's razor has always been ...
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  • his 1633 visit led to the Bishops Wars of 1639 and 1640, which the Scots won. Pocock, Schochet, and Schwoerer (1996), 114. Subsequently, the Church ...
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  • the Anglican theologian Joseph Mede (1586-1639), who popularized premillennialism ... Shepard (1604-1649) and Increase Mather (1639-1723) were premillennialists ...
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  • In 1639, Williams established a Baptist church in Providence, Rhode Island and Clarke began a Baptist church in Newport, Rhode Island. There ...
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  • In 1639, Rembrandt and Saskia moved to a prominent house in the Jewish quarter, which later became the Rembrandt House Museum. It was there that ...
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  • He took his B.A. in 1635, his M.A. in 1639, and immediately afterwards became a fellow of his college, turning down all other positions that ...
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  • Quito by way of the Napo River. He returned in 1639 with the two Jesuit fathers, Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña and Artieda, who had been delegated ...
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  • and a Lady in waiting to the Queen, in 1639-1640; this may have been instigated ... George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, ca. 1638–1639 ==Notes== ...
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  • [[Image:Map of Jersey by G Mercator 1639..JPG|thumb|400px|right|This map of Jersey, published in 1639, shows interior details such as Le Mont ...
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  • holding his spear in his right hand, by Bernini in 1639), St. Andrew (southeast, spread upon the cross which bears his name, by Francois Duquesnoy), ...
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  • son of the noted Puritan divine Increase Mather (1639 – 1723) and the grandson of John Cotton and Richard Mather, both "Moses-like figures" ...
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  • by Jameson's imprisonment in late 1639. There is no record of any independent work by Wright from this period (his earliest known painting ...
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  • from the persecution of the Tokugawa government. In 1639, 106 Ezo Christians were rounded up and executed. In June 1669, the Ainu again rose in rebellion ...
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  • In 1639 Spain sent a second armada, reminiscent of the great fleet that sailed against England in 1588, bound for Flanders, carrying 20,000 troops ...
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  • the town of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island. In 1639, Coddington left Portsmouth and founded Newport, also on Aquidneck Island. That same year ...
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  • was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard. A graduate of Emmanuel College ...
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  • festival in that colony; and Connecticut as early as 1639 and annually after 1647, except in 1675. The Dutch in New Netherland appointed a day for giving ...
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  • transit of Mercury predicted by Johannes Kepler. In 1639 Giovanni Zupi used a telescope to discover that the planet had orbital* phases similar to Venus ...
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  • governor of the French colony on St. Kitts, in 1639, he was a prominent Knight of St. John and dressed his retinue with the emblems of the order. The ...
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  • factory was built in 1612), Madras (Chennai) in 1639, Bombay in 1668, and Calcutta in 1690. By 1647 the company had 23 factories and 90 employees in ...
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  • *1639: Edicts establishing national seclusion (sakoku rei) are completed. All Westerners except the Dutch are prohibited from entering Japan ...
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  • oldest public elementary school, established in 1639). The city also has private, parochial, and charter schools. Three thousand students of racial ...
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  • defeat at the Battle of the Downs in 1639, when an increasingly exhausted ... so far. At the Battle of the Downs in 1639 a Spanish fleet carrying troops ...
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  • On August 22, 1639, Francis Day of the British East India Company bought a small strip of land on the Coromandel Coast from the Vijayanagara ...
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  • In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Société de Notre ...
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  • Indians, while Pope Urban VIII forbade it in 1639 and Pope Benedict XIV in 1741. Pope Pius VII in 1815 demanded that the Congress of Vienna suppress ...
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  • | 1639–1643 | William Bradford |- | 1644 | Edward Winslow ... Line"—which had been surveyed in 1639—was formally accepted as ...
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  • In 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate initiated the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries ...
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  • unities of time, place, and action. Jean Racine (1639-1699) had simpler style and more realistic characters and plot structures. In the comic arena Molière ...
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  • *Mustafa I (1600–20 January 1639), in the courtyard. *Enrico Dandolo (1107–June 1205), in the east gallery. *Gli (2004–7 November 2020) ...
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