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New Netherland, New York
1609 : Henry Hudson, in command of the East India Company ship Halve Maen, explores from Delaware Bay to the upper Hudson as far as present-day Albany.
1614 : The na... |
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Invention of Napier's Bones
Napier's bones are an abacus invented by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers. Also called Rabdologia. Napier published his invention of t... |
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The Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War, series of European conflicts lasting from 1618 to 1648, involving most of the countries of western Europe, and fought mainly in Germany. At first the s... |
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Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor
Aurangzeb was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in India (1658-1707) and is commonly considered the last of the great Mughal emperors as well one of the most controversial.... |
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Thanksgiving, 1st Harvest of the Pelgrims
The Thanksgiving holiday celebrated the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksg... |
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Palace of Versailles
Back in 1623, Louis XIII - father of Louis XIV - built a 'hunting lodge, a little gentleman's chateau' of brick, stone, and slate at Versailles. The king liked it so much... |
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Blaise Pascal, Inventing a Calculator
Blaise Pascal, the French scientist was one of the most reputed mathematician and physicist of his time. He is credited with inventing an early calculator, amazingly adva... |
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Taj Mahal of India
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan erected the Taj Mahal in the memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction of Taj Mahal started in the year 1631 and it took approx... |
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Harvard University
Harvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded 16 years after the arrival... |
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Isaac Newton, Theory of Gravitation
Newton laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known. Newton'... |
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Peace of Münster, Dutch Independence
The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the United Netherlands and Spain signed in 1648. It was a landmark treaty for the Dutch republic and one of the key events in Du... |
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Savery, Inventor Steam Engine - 1698
Thomas Savery was an English inventor. Initially interested in naval applications of engineering (he designed an early paddle-wheel), Savery then became interested in pum... |
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First Anglo-Dutch War
The First Anglo-Dutch War (called the First Dutch War in England, and the First English War in the Netherlands) was the first of the four Anglo-Dutch Wars. It was fought... |
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Bartolomeo Cristofori, Inventor of the Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments, and is most remembered for inventing what would become the modern-day piano. He was born i... |
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The Royal Society of London
The origins of the Royal Society lie in a group of men who began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss the new philosophy. Its official foundation date is 28 November 1660,... |
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