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1704

Index 1704

In the Swedish calendar it was a leap year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. [1]

263 relations: A Tale of a Tub, Agnes Block, Aiud, Aleppo, Andreas Acoluthus, Apalachee, Apalachee massacre, April 10, April 12, April 14, April 15, April 17, April 20, April 21, April 24, April 5, April 8, Arabian horse, August 13, August 14, August 19, August 2, August 24, August 3, August 7, August Gottlieb Spangenberg, Augustus II the Strong, Battle of Biskupice, Battle of Blenheim, Battle of Chamkaur (1704), Battle of Koroncó, Battle of Orford Ness (1704), Battle of Smolenice, Bavaria, Benjamin Heath, Benjamin Huntsman, Benjamin Keach, British North America, Bruneian Empire, Capture of Gibraltar, Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, Carlo Barberini, Carlos Seixas, Charles Pinot Duclos, Charles Plumier, Charles XII of Sweden, Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, Croatia, Danes, Daniel Defoe, ..., Darley Arabian, David van der Plas, Deane Winthrop, December 1, December 11, December 22, December 29, December 31, December 5, December 6, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Delaware, Earthquake, Ethiopia, February, February 12, February 2, February 21, February 23, February 24, February 25, February 28, February 29, Foundation stock, France, Francesco Provenzale, French Canadians, Gabriel Cramer, Georg Muffat, George Rooke, Giambattista Spinola, Gondar, Goodwin Wharton, Great Northern War, Great Storm of 1703, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Henry Noris, Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, Hiob Ludolf, Horse racing, Hungarians, Isaac Newton, Isabella Leonarda, Istifan al-Duwayhi, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Jane Leade, January 1, January 25, January 26, January 4, January 8, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Joan Huydecoper II, Johannes Hudde, John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, John Byng, John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Kay (flying shuttle), John Locke, John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg, John Quelch, John Taylor (classical scholar), Jonathan Swift, Joseph Parrocel, July, July 12, July 15, July 18, July 2, July 20, July 22, July 3, July 31, July 7, June 11, June 13, June 17, June 18, June 22, June 24, June 30, June 4, Kingdom of England, Kuruc, Latin, Leap year starting on Friday, List of Polish monarchs, Lorenzo Bellini, Louis Bourdaloue, Louis Godin, Louis Hennepin, Louisiana (New France), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, March 1, March 16, March 17, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini, Martha Daniell Logan, May 13, May 18, May 28, May 3, Málaga, Menno van Coehoorn, Mobile, Alabama, Narva, Native Americans in the United States, Netherlands, Newspaper, November 1, November 20, November 4, October 2, October 28, October 29, October 30, Old Style and New Style dates, Opticks, Paolo Boccone, Paul Daniel Longolius, Peregrine White, Peter the Great, Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Province of Carolina, Province of Pennsylvania, Prussia, Queen Anne's War, Raid on Deerfield, Roger L'Estrange, Roland Laporte, Romania, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Selim I Giray, September, September 21, September 6, Sir, Soame Jenyns, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Spanish Florida, Stanisław Leszczyński, Steven Blankaart, Sultanate of Sulu, Sweden, Swedish calendar, Syria, Tartu, The Boston News-Letter, The Storm (Daniel Defoe), Thirteen Colonies, Thomas Darley, Thomas Fitch (settler), Thoroughbred, Tom Brown (satirist), Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Vojvodina, War of the Spanish Succession, Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, 1612, 1615, 1616, 1620, 1623, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1638, 1640, 1641, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1656, 1657, 1661, 1662, 1666, 1675, 1742, 1752, 1757, 1760, 1761, 1766, 1771, 1772, 1776, 1779, 1780, 1787, 1792. Expand index (213 more) »

A Tale of a Tub

A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly.

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Agnes Block

Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Mennonite art collector and horticulturalist.

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Aiud

Aiud (Brucla, Nagyenyed, Hungarian pronunciation:; Straßburg am Mieresch) is a city located in Alba county, Transylvania, Romania.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most-populous Syrian governorate.

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Andreas Acoluthus

Andreas Acoluthus (16 March 1654 – 4 November 1704Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon: darinne die Gelehrten aller Stände.. vom Anfange der Welt bis auf ietzige Zeit.. Nach ihrer Geburt, Leben,... Schrifften aus den glaubwürdigsten Scribenten in alphabetischer Ordnung beschrieben werden. Leipzig: Gleditsch, 1750-1751. - 4 Bde) was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau (Wrocław).

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Apalachee

The Apalachee are a Native American people who historically lived in the Florida Panhandle.

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Apalachee massacre

The Apalachee massacre was a series of raids by English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies against a largely peaceful population of Apalachee Indians in northern Spanish Florida that took place during Queen Anne's War in 1704.

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April 10

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April 12

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April 14

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April 15

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April 17

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April 20

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April 21

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April 24

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April 5

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April 8

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Arabian horse

The Arabian or Arab horse (الحصان العربي, DMG ḥiṣān ʿarabī) is a breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula.

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August 13

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August 14

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August 19

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August 2

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August 24

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August 3

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August 7

This day marks the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the June solstice).

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August Gottlieb Spangenberg

August Gottlieb Spangenberg (15 July 170418 September 1792) was a German theologian and minister, and a bishop of the Moravian Brethren.

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Augustus II the Strong

Augustus II the Strong (August II.; August II Mocny; Augustas II; 12 May 16701 February 1733) of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin was Elector of Saxony (as Frederick Augustus I), Imperial Vicar and elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Battle of Biskupice

The Battle of Biskupice (Püspöki csata, Schlacht bei Bischdorf, Bitka pri Biskupiciach) was a battle between the Kurucs (Hungarians) and the Danish auxiliaries of the Habsburg army in April 21, 1704.

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Battle of Blenheim

The Battle of Blenheim (German:Zweite Schlacht bei Höchstädt; French Bataille de Höchstädt), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Battle of Chamkaur (1704)

The Battle of Chamkaur, also known as Battle of Chamkaur Sahib, was fought between the Khalsa led by Guru Gobind Singh and the Mughal forces led by Wazir Khan.

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Battle of Koroncó

The Battle of Koroncó took place on 13 June 1704 at Koroncó in Moson County, Hungary between the Kurucs (Hungarians) and the army of Habsburg Empire (Germans, Danes, Serbs, Croats).

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Battle of Orford Ness (1704)

The Battle of Orford Ness took place between a southbound Swedish convoy escorted by the Swedish warship Öland and an English squadron "some miles" off Orford Ness on 27 July 1704 (Julian Calendar).

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Battle of Smolenice

The Battle of Smolenice (Szomolányi csata, Schlacht bei Smolenitz, Bitka pri Smoleniciach) was a battle between the Kuruc (a group of Hungarian peasants and irregular warriors), and the forces of the Habsburg Empire, soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire and auxiliaries from Denmark.

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Bavaria

Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.

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Benjamin Heath

Benjamin Heath, D.C.L. (April 10, 1704September 13, 1766) was an English classical scholar and bibliophile.

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Benjamin Huntsman

Benjamin Huntsman (4 June 170420 June 1776) was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.

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Benjamin Keach

Benjamin Keach (29 February 1640 – 18 July 1704) was a Particular Baptist preacher and author in London whose name was given to Keach's Catechism.

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British North America

The term "British North America" refers to the former territories of the British Empire on the mainland of North America.

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Bruneian Empire

The Bruneian Empire or Empire of Brunei, also known as Sultanate of Brunei or Negara Brunei, was a Malay sultanate, centred in Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo island in Southeast Asia.

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Capture of Gibraltar

The Capture of Gibraltar by Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance occurred between 1–3 August 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Carl Gotthelf Gerlach

Carl Gotthelf Gerlach (31 December 1704 – 9 July 1761) was a German organist, who took over the Leipzig Collegium Musicum from Johann Sebastian Bach between 1737 and 1739.

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Carlo Barberini

Carlo Barberini (1 June 1630 – 2 October 1704) was an Italian Catholic cardinal and member of the Barberini family.

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Carlos Seixas

José António Carlos de Seixas (June 11, 1704 – August 25, 1742) was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century.

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Charles Pinot Duclos

Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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Charles Plumier

Charles Plumier (20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus Plumeria is named.

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Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII, also Carl (Karl XII; 17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), Latinized to Carolus Rex, was the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.

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Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels

Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels (born: 9 April 1652 at Oels Castle in Oels; died: 5 April 1704, Oels Castle) was a German nobleman.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Danes

Danes (danskere) are a nation and a Germanic ethnic group native to Denmark, who speak Danish and share the common Danish culture.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Darley Arabian

The Darley Arabian (foaled c. 1700) was one of three dominant foundation sires of modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock, whose arrival in England during the reign of Queen Anne was the event which "forms the great epoch from which the history of the Turf should be dated".

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David van der Plas

David van der Plas (11 December 1647 – 18 May 1704), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.

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Deane Winthrop

Deane Winthrop (23 March 1623 - 16 March 1704) was the sixth son (the third son by his father's third marriage) of the English Puritan colonist John Winthrop, a founder and the 2nd, 6th, 9th and 12th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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December 1

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December 11

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December 22

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December 29

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December 31

It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.

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December 5

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December 6

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Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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February

February is the second and shortest month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar with 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years, with the quadrennial 29th day being called the leap day.

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February 12

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February 2

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February 21

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February 23

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February 24

For superstitious reasons, when the Romans began to intercalate to bring their calendar into line with the solar year, they chose not to place their extra month of Mercedonius after February but within it.

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February 25

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February 28

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February 29

February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.

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Foundation stock

Foundation bloodstock or foundation stock are animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a new breed (or crossbreed or hybrid), or of a given bloodline within such.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale (15 September 1624 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens; Canadien(ne)s français(es)) are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in Canada from the 17th century onward.

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Gabriel Cramer

Gabriel Cramer (31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752) was a Genevan mathematician.

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Georg Muffat

Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist.

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George Rooke

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rooke (1650 – 24 January 1709) was an English naval officer.

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Giambattista Spinola

Giambattista Spinola (20 September 1615 – 4 January 1704) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and an Archbishop of Genoa.

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Gondar

Gondar or Gonder (Amharic: ጎንደር, Gonder or Gondär; formerly ጐንደር, Gʷandar or Gʷender) is a city and separate woreda in Ethiopia.

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Goodwin Wharton

Goodwin Wharton (8 March 1653 – 28 October 1704) was a Whig politician and autobiographer, as well as an avid mystic, alchemist and treasure hunter.

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Great Northern War

The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Great Storm of 1703

The Great Storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703 (7 December 1703 in the Gregorian calendar in use today).

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Guillaume de l'Hôpital

Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (1661 – 2 February 1704) was a French mathematician.

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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (12 August 1644 (baptised) – 3 May 1704) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist.

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Henry Noris

Henry Noris (29 August 1631 – 23 February 1704), or Enrico Noris, was an Italian church historian, theologian and Cardinal.

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Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney

Henry Sydney (or Sidney), 1st Earl of Romney (8 April 1641 – 8 April 1704) was an English politician and army officer.

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Hiob Ludolf

Hiob Ludolf (or Job Leutholf) (15 June 1624 – 8 April 1704) was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary (Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history and speak the Hungarian language.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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Isabella Leonarda

Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara.

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Istifan al-Duwayhi

Istifan al-Duwayhi (اسطفانوس الثاني بطرس الدويهي / ALA-LC: Isṭifānūs al-thānī Buṭrus al-Duwayhī; Etienne Douaihi; Stephanus Dovaihi; Stefano El Douaihy; August 2, 1630 – May 3, 1704) was the 57th Patriarch of the Maronite Church, serving from 1670 until his death.

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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses.

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Jane Leade

Jane Ward Leade (March 1624 – 19 August 1704) was a Christian mystic born in Norfolk, England.

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January 1

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.

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January 25

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January 26

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January 4

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January 8

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Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (June 24, 1704 - January 11, 1771) was a French philosopher and writer.

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Joan Huydecoper II

Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen II (21 February 1625, Amsterdam – 1 December 1704, Amsterdam) was the eldest son of burgomaster Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen I and the brother-in-law of the collector Jan J. Hinlopen and the sheriff Jacob Boreel.

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Johannes Hudde

Johannes (van Waveren) Hudde (23 April 1628 – 15 April 1704) was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company.

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John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

John Adolphus of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (Johann Adolf or Hans Adolf; 8 April 1634, Ahrensbök – 2 July 1704 Ruhleben) was the second Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, which had been created by a division of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.

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John Byng

Admiral John Byng (baptised 29 October 1704 – 14 March 1757) was a Royal Navy officer who was notoriously court-martialled and shot dead by a firing squad.

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John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen

John Charles, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld at Gelnhausen (17 October 1638 in Bischweiler – 21 February 1704 in Gelnhausen), was a German prince and ancestor of the cadet branch of the royal family of Bavaria known, from the early 19th century, as Dukes in Bavaria.

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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs.

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John Kay (flying shuttle)

John Kay (17 June 1704 – c. 1779) was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg

John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg (4 May 1656, in Zerbst – 1 November 1704, in Dornburg), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dornburg.

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John Quelch

John Anthony Quelch CBE (born 8 August 1951) was appointed in 2017 as Vice Provost for Executive Education and Dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami.

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John Taylor (classical scholar)

John Taylor (22 June 1704 – 4 April 1766), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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Joseph Parrocel

Joseph Parrocel (3 October 1646 – 1 March 1704) was a French Baroque painter, best known for his paintings and drawings of battle scenes.

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July

July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days.

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July 12

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July 15

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July 18

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July 2

This day is the midpoint of a common year because there are 182 days before and 182 days after it in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years.

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July 20

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July 22

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July 3

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July 31

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July 7

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.

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June 11

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June 13

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June 17

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June 18

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June 22

On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

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June 24

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June 30

It is the last day of the first half of the year.

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June 4

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Kuruc

The kuruc (plural kurucok), also spelled kurutz, were the armed anti-Habsburg rebels in Royal Hungary between 1671 and 1711.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leap year starting on Friday

A leap year starting on Friday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Friday 1 January and ends on Saturday 31 December.

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List of Polish monarchs

Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes (the 10th–14th century) or by kings (the 11th-18th century).

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Lorenzo Bellini

Lorenzo Bellini (3 September 1643 – 8 January 1704), Italian physician and anatomist.

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Louis Bourdaloue

Louis Bourdaloue (August 20, 1632 – May 13, 1704) was a French Jesuit and preacher.

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Louis Godin

Louis Godin (28 February 1704 Paris – 11 September 1760 Cadiz) was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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Louis Hennepin

Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of the interior of North America.

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Louisiana (New France)

Louisiana (La Louisiane; La Louisiane française) or French Louisiana was an administrative district of New France.

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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March 1

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March 16

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March 17

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday (known as Shrove Tuesday).

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Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama

Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama.

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Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini

Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini (5 February 1634 – 21 September 1704) was a 17th-century Italian poet and playwright.

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Martha Daniell Logan

Martha Daniell Logan (29 December 1704 - 28 June 1779) was an early American botanist who was instrumental in seed exchanges between Britain and the North American colonies.

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May 13

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May 18

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May 28

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May 3

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Málaga

Málaga is a municipality, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Menno van Coehoorn

Menno, Baron van Coehoorn (March 1641 – 17 March 1704) was a Dutch soldier and engineer regarded as one of the most significant figures in Dutch military history.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Narva

Narva (Нарва) is the third largest city in Estonia.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.

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November 1

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November 20

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November 4

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October 2

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October 28

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October 29

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October 30

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Old Style and New Style dates

Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are terms sometimes used with dates to indicate that the calendar convention used at the time described is different from that in use at the time the document was being written.

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Opticks

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704.

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Paolo Boccone

Paolo Silvio Boccone (24 April 1633 – 22 December 1704) was an Italian botanist from Sicily, whose interest in plants had been sparked at a young age.

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Paul Daniel Longolius

Paul Daniel Longolius (1 November 1704 – 24 February 1779) was the main editor of volumes 3 to 18 of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon (an early encyclopedia) from 1733 to 1739, replacing Jacob August Franckenstein, who had edited the first two volumes.

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Peregrine White

Peregrine White (November 20, 1620July 20, 1704) was the first baby boy born on the Mayflower in the harbor of Massachusetts, the second baby born on the Mayflowers historic voyage, and the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America.

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great (ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj), Peter I (ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj) or Peter Alexeyevich (p; –)Dates indicated by the letters "O.S." are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January.

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Pierre-Charles Le Sueur

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c. 1657, Artois, France – 17 July 1704, Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley.

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Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy (French: François-Eugène de Savoie, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano, German: Prinz Eugen von Savoyen; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) was a general of the Imperial Army and statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria and one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

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Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark

Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (11 April 1649 – 30 October 1704) was the second daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp from 1667 to 1695 as the consort of Duke Christian Albert.

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Province of Carolina

The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America.

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Province of Pennsylvania

The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen) was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centred on the region of Prussia.

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Queen Anne's War

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession, as known in the British colonies, and the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England in North America for control of the continent.

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Raid on Deerfield

The 1704 Raid on Deerfield (or the Deerfield Massacre) occurred during Queen Anne's War on February 29 when French and Native American forces under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville attacked the English frontier settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts, just before dawn, burning part of the town, killing 47 villagers, and taking 112 settlers captive to Montreal.

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Roger L'Estrange

Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims.

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Roland Laporte

Roland Laporte (1675 – 14 August 1704), Camisard leader, better known as Roland, was born at Mas Soubeyran (Gard) in a cottage which has become the property of the Socité de l'Histoire du Protestantisme français, and which contains relics of the hero.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Rudolph Augustus (May 16, 1627 – January 26, 1704), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled as Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1666 until his death.

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Selim I Giray

Selim I Giray, Selim Khan Girai (I Selim Geray, 1.) was a Crimean khan (1631–1704).

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September

September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the third of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the fourth of five months to have a length of less than 31 days.

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September 21

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September 6

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Sir

Sir is an honorific address used in a number of situations in many anglophone cultures.

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Soame Jenyns

Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was an English writer and Member of Parliament.

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Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

Sophia Alekseyevna (p) ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689.

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Spanish Florida

Spanish Florida refers to the Spanish territory of La Florida, which was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery.

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Stanisław Leszczyński

Stanisław I Leszczyński (also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, Stanislovas Leščinskis, Stanislas Leszczynski; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Steven Blankaart

Steven Blankaart (24 October 1650, Middelburg – 23 February 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician, iatrochemist, and entomologist, who worked on the same field as Jan Swammerdam.

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Sultanate of Sulu

The Sultanate of Sulu (Tausūg: Kasultanan sin Sūg, Jawi: کسلطانن سولو دار الإسلام, Kesultanan Sulu, سلطنة سولك) was a Muslim state that ruled the islands in the Sulu Archipelago, parts of Mindanao, certain portions of Palawan and north-eastern Borneo (present-day the certain parts of Sabah and North Kalimantan).

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish calendar

The Swedish calendar (Svenska kalendern) or Swedish style (Svenska stilen) was a calendar in use in Sweden and its possessions from 1 March 1700 until 30 February 1712 (see below).

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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Tartu

Tartu (South Estonian: Tarto) is the second largest city of Estonia, after Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn.

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The Boston News-Letter

The Boston News-Letter, first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.

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The Storm (Daniel Defoe)

The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe.

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Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.

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Thomas Darley

Thomas Darley (born 19 May 1664) served as Her Majesty's Consul to the Levant (Syria) during the reign of Queen Anne.

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Thomas Fitch (settler)

Thomas Fitch, Jr. (October 14, 1612 – April 14, 1704) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Tom Brown (satirist)

Thomas Brown (1662 – 18 June 1704), also known as Tom Brown, was an English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell.

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Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar

The Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar was fought between September 1704 and May 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve

Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (20 July 1638 – 17 April 1704) was the leading general in Norway during the Scanian War, whose Norwegian leg is conventionally named the "Gyldenløve War" after him.

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Vojvodina

Vojvodina (Serbian and Croatian: Vojvodina; Војводина; Pannonian Rusyn: Войводина; Vajdaság; Slovak and Czech: Vojvodina; Voivodina), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Аутономна Покрајина Војводина / Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina; see Names in other languages), is an autonomous province of Serbia, located in the northern part of the country, in the Pannonian Plain.

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War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.

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Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg

Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (2 December 1629 – 10 April 1704) was a German count and later prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg in the Holy Roman Empire.

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1612

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1615

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1616

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1620

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1623

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1624

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1625

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1626

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1627

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1628

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1629

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1630

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1631

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1632

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1633

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1634

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1638

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1640

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1641

1641 is the generally accepted year of the birth of the modern timepiece.

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1643

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1644

It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)).

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1645

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1646

It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+5(V)+1(I).

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1647

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1649

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1650

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1652

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1653

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1654

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1656

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1657

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1661

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1662

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1666

This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire.

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1675

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1742

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1752

In the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days, as 3–13 September were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.

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1757

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1760

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1761

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1766

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1771

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1772

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1776

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1779

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1780

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1787

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1792

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References

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