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William of Orange Invades England
William of Orange was leader of the Dutch, then in the early stages of a war with the French: the War of the Grand Alliance. Jumping at the chance to add England to his... |
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Alexander Pope, Poet
Alexander Pope is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. Born to a Roman Catholic family in 1688, Pope was educated mostly at home, in pa... |
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Santa Claus
Timeline : 1689-Spanish-German explorer Santa Claus discovers the North Pole, and establishes a small base camp. 1691-Because of harsh and meager living conditions, Claus... |
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The Salem Witch Trials 1692
A Chronology of Events: January 20 - Nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams began to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming,... |
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John Harrison, Solved Longitude - 1773
John Harrison was an English clockmaker, who designed and built the world's first successful chronometer (maritime clock), one whose accuracy was great enough to allow th... |
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Voltaire, Author and Philosopher
"Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities." Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris. Voltaire'... |
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Oglethorpe, Founder State of Georgia
James Edward Oglethorpe was an English general, a philanthropist, and a founder of the state of Georgia. It was through his initiatives in England in 1732 that the Britis... |
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Modern Gay History Timeline
gayhistory.com is an introduction to the stories and the people of modern gay history (1700-1973). The site is an ongoing project and most articles about gay male histor... |
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British Empire : Timeline
The British Empire was the first genuinely global empire, an empire that ranged, at times, from the American colonies in the West, Australia and New Zealand in the East,... |
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GEH Timeline of Photography
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film... |
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Anders Celsius, Temperature Scale
Anders Celsius became famous for his recommendation in 1742 to divide the temperature scale of a mercury thermometer at 760mm mercury air pressure into 100 degrees, where... |
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Harpsichord after Michael Mietke
By the time Michael Mietke was building instruments in his workshop on the outskirts of Berlin in the early 1700s the harpsichord already had over two centuries worth of... |
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Thomas Bayes, Mathematician
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem. Bayes was elected Fellow of the Royal So... |
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John Wesley, Leader Methodists
John Wesley was an 18th-century Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had three rises, the first at Oxf... |
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The United Methodist Church
This web site represents The General
Commission on Archives and History for The United Methodist Church. You will find many useful and interesting pages here to place the... |
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