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  • ===Comedy renaissance, 1690–1700=== During the second wave of Restoration ... *Thomas Southerne, Sir Anthony Love (1690), The Wives Excuse (1691) ...
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  • In 1690, Halley built a diving bell, in which device the atmosphere was replenished by way of weighted barrels of air sent down from the surface ...
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  • Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 – February 22, 1690) was a true Renaissance man. The reputation he garnered for his paintings was matched ...
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  • Cannons were first mounted on Brimstone Hill in 1690, when the British used them to recapture Fort Charles from the French. The French had not ...
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  • had been discovered by Christiaan Huygens. Around 1690, Cassini was the first to observe differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere. ...
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  • record of Europeans encountering it is in 1690 in Japanese temple gardens ... Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species in 1690 ...
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  • from an expedition led by John Strong in 1690, who named the islands after ... In January 1690, English sailor John Strong, captain of the Welfare ...
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  • * Brown, Catherine. 1991. Broths to Bannocks: Cooking in Scotland 1690 to the Present Day. John Murray Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0719547805 ...
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  • Joseph Pater (1696-1736) and Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), continued to paint fêtes galantes and personalities from the theatrical world. Following ...
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  • :*A Letter to a Friend (1656; pub. post. 1690) :*Christian Morals (1670s; pub. post. 1716) :*Musaeum Clausum Tract 13 from Miscellaneous Tracts ...
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  • The two greatest migrations took place in 1690 and 1737. Other instances of labor recruitments include the Plantations of Ireland - the settling ...
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  • expanding his basic position. Though dated 1690, the book actually first appeared ... * (1690) A Second Letter Concerning Toleration * (1692) A Third Letter ...
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  • |Mary||14 October 1690||14 October 1690 |- |George||17 April 1692||17 April 1692 |- |Stillborn Daughter||23 April 1693||23 April 1693 ...
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  • His father had been banished from Rotterdam in 1690 for involvement in the Costerman tax riots; this may have been one reason for Mandeville’s ...
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  • ] volume III (London, UK: Thomas Basset, 1690). Retrieved February 24, 2023 ... HardPress Publishing, 2019 (original 1690). ISBN 978-0461142044 ...
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  • * Avertissements aux protestants (IV, V, VI) (1690-1691) * Défense de l'> (1690-1691) * Correspondance avec Leibniz ...
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  • servant who had earned her freedom by 1690. Molly rented a farm, raised corn and tobacco, and became a landowner. She purchased and freed two ...
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  • Light (Legare Street Press, 2022 (original 1690), ISBN 978-1015499331). ... Light. Legare Street Press, 2022 (original 1690). ISBN 978-1015499331 ...
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  • Rømer also invented the transit instrument in 1690. This instrument is used primarily to measure the position of stars. William Somerville Orr ...
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  • #039;s Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690,"] Prof. Murray N. Rothbard, excerpt from Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1 (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig ...
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  • theology at the University of Glasgow. From 1687 to 1690 he studied at Glasgow and Edinburgh universities. After receiving a Master of Arts degree, he ...
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  • on the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum in 1690 and 1709 (respectively). Malebranche resolutely defended himself in writing, and the debate ...
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  • #039;s Treatise on Light was finally printed in 1690. Huygens speculated in detail about life on other planets. In his book, Cosmotheoros, further ...
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  • Marpo ('Red Palace') was added between 1690 and 1694. :"The new palace got its name from a hill on Cape Comorin at the southern ...
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  • as a star. The earliest recorded sighting was in 1690, when John Flamsteed cataloged Uranus as 34 Tauri. Flamsteed observed Uranus at least six more ...
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  • The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the Glorious Revolution the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response ...
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  • his father's stake in the property. In 1690, he agreed to formally divide the estimated five thousand-acre estate with the heirs of Nicholas ...
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  • is not known, but it was probably between 1680 and 1690, in County Kerry, Ireland. He was the son of an Irish nobleman. He may have been a descendant ...
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  • In 1731, a failed uprising under José de Antequera y Castro (1690-1732), a Spanish lawyer and judge in Peru, was one of the first rebellions ...
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  • driven from France and came to South Carolina in 1690. Their son, Gabriel, married Esther Cordes, and Francis was the youngest of the six children of ...
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  • 1633 and died in Preston, Connecticut on March 19, 1690. His burial place is unknown. He married Mary Dingley in Marshfield on December 19, 1654, who ...
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  • Dynasty and, as a result, submitted to the Qing. In 1690, the Zungar and the Manchu Empire clashed at the battle of Ulaan Butun in Inner Mongolia, during ...
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  • and Anne Rogers were convicted on October 15, 1690, for "Clipping 40 pieces of Silver" (in other words, clipping the edges off silver coins ...
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  • * 1690--Medicina Hydrostatica * 1691--Experimenta & Observationes Physicae Wherein are Briefly Treated of Several Subjects Relating to Natural ...
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  • 1690, battle of Nadaun and was fought probably late in 1690" ...
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  • 21, of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). There he explains how science can be divided into three parts: All that can fall within ...
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  • Jordaens, David Teniers the younger, (1610, d. 1690), the son of David Teniers, his father, and many others. ===Scheldt closed to trade=== ...
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  • Walpole was a scholar at Eton College from 1690 to 1695 and matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1696. In 1698, he left the University ...
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  • in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1690-1728)." In The New England Quarterly 81(2) (June 2008): 278-329. * Smolinski, Reiner. The ...
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  • of the 11th month, 1690" was the day Fox died. [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/fox_g/autobio.xxv.html] Before 1752, the "Julian" or ...
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  • * Political Arithmetic posthum. (approx. 1676, pub. 1690) * Verbum Sapienti posthum. (1664, pub. 1691) * Political Anatomy of Ireland posthum ...
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  • the French by the British Governor of Navis. By 1690, he was captain of a vessel operating out of New York. He appears to have been recruited by ...
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  • When William left for Ireland in June 1690, Marlborough was appointed ... William's decisive victory at the Boyne on July 11, 1690 had ...
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  • European to enter Saskatchewan was Henry Kelsey in 1690, who traveled up the Saskatchewan River in hopes of trading for fur. The first permanent European ...
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  • James II of England at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the bill was defeated, Gladstone remained undaunted and introduced a Second Irish ...
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  • coined in the form Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This division included flowering ...
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  • Ireland a year after the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Williamite England could then devote more of its funds and troops to the war on the continent. ...
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  • an effect first noticed by Giovanni Cassini in 1690. The rotation of Jupiter's polar atmosphere is ~5 minutes longer than that of the equatorial ...
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  • and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1690). They were basically against the notion of the divine right of the kings, according to which ...
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  • and published it in his Treatise on light in 1690. He proposed that light was emitted in all directions as a series of waves in a medium called the ...
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