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Date |
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1 | 1665 | |
2 | 1666 | - 1666: England - First European printed paper banknote issued
- 1666: London, England - The Great Fire of London began in the shop of the King's baker. After burning for four days, more than 13,000 buildings had been destroyed.
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3 | 1667 | - 1667: Medway River, Kent - Dutch fleet defeats the English
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4 | 1668 | |
5 | 1669 | - 1669: England - Isaac Newton circulated a manuscript, De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, the first notice of his calculus.
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6 | 1670 | |
7 | 1671 | |
8 | 1672 | |
9 | 1673 | |
10 | 1674 | |
11 | 1675 | |
12 | 1676 | |
13 | 1677 | |
14 | 1678 | |
15 | 1679 | |
16 | 1680 | - 1680: America - Pennsylvania founded by William Penn for oppressed Quakers
- 1680: England - Moves to remove Charles II's brother James from succession persist through into 1681 (because he married an Italian and converted to Catholicism) and replace with Charles's illegitimate son, also Charles;civil war between Tories and Whigs narrowly averted
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17 | 1681 | |
18 | 1685 | |
19 | 1686 | |
20 | 1687 | |
21 | 1688 | |
22 | 1689 | |
23 | 1690 | |
24 | 1691 | - 3 Oct 1691: Limerick, Ireland - The Treaty of Limerick allows Catholics in Ireland to exercise their religion freely, but severe penal laws soon follow. The French War begins
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25 | 1692 | |
26 | 1693 | - 1693: England - Richest counties: Middlesex (with London), Surrey, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire; Poorest Counties: Cheshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland
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27 | 1694 | |
28 | 1695 | |
29 | 1697 | |
30 | 1698 | - 1698: England - Thomas Savery patented an engine which produced a vacuum by condensing steam. It was employed for raising water from a mine and supplying water to several country houses.
- 1698: Russia - Tsar Peter the Great begins taxing men with beards
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31 | 1699 | - 23 May 1699: America - John Bartram was born. A naturalist and explorer, considered 'father of American botany'; established a world renowned botanical garden in Philadelphia in 1728.
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32 | 1700 | |
33 | 1701 | |