Search results for "1639" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard. A graduate of Emmanuel College ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- 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 ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- *1639: Edicts establishing national seclusion (sakoku rei) are completed. All Westerners except the Dutch are prohibited from entering Japan ...38 KB (5,709 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- oldest public elementary school, established in 1639). The city also has private, parochial, and charter schools. Three thousand students of racial ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- 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 ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- 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 ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- 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 ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- | 1639–1643 | William Bradford |- | 1644 | Edward Winslow ... Line"—which had been surveyed in 1639—was formally accepted as ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- In 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate initiated the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- 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 ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- *Mustafa I (1600–20 January 1639), in the courtyard. *Enrico Dandolo (1107–June 1205), in the east gallery. *Gli (2004–7 November 2020) ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
