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Second Anglo-Dutch War
The Second Anglo-Dutch War was fought between England and the United Provinces from 4 March 1665 until 31 July 1667. England tried to end the Dutch domination of world tr... |
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Great Fire of London, 1666
The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666, was one of the maj... |
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The Dutch in the Medway
One of the more unfortunate events in the British naval history happened on 12 – 14th June. 1667, when a Dutch fleet sailed up the river Medway in Kent and destroyed seve... |
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Tragedy of the Dodo, Mauritius
In the year 1598 AD, Portuguese sailors landing on the shores of the island of Mauritius discovered a previously unknown species of bird, the Dodo. Having been isolated b... |
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Battle of Vienna
The Battle of Vienna (as distinct from the Siege of Vienna in 1529) took place on September 11 and September 12 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by Turks for two month... |
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Fahrenheit, Inventor Thermometer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the m... |
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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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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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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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Great Britain, Union England and Scotland
The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merg... |
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James Lind, Cure for Scurvy
James Lind was the pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting what was perhaps the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits cure scurvy. He... |
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Henry Cavendish, Discovery of Hydrogen
Henry Cavendish was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed... |
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George Washington, 1st US President
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United St... |
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