1662 - Events. March 18 – Short-timed experiment of the first public buses holding 8 passengers begins in Paris May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England May 9 - Samuel Pepys witnessed a Punch and Judy show in London; the first on record. October 27 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £400.000 (or 2.5 million livres) Act of Uniformity ...

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The Chaldean Catholic Church aka the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Rite sui juris (autonomous) particular church of the Roman Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Pope in Rome. It descends from the Church of the East. In the 15th century the Assyrian church decreed that the title of Patriarch could pass only to relatives of then-patriarch Mar Shimun IV. Dissent over this grew until in 1552, a group of bishops refused to accept t ...

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Zaya Pandit I (1599 - 1662) was an Oirat lama of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Zaya Pandit was from the Khoshuud group of the Oirats. He became a Tibetan Buddhist in 1615. He practiced asceticism in Tibet and returned to Oirat lands in 1639. He taught Tibetan Buddhism to the Oirats and Mongols (Khalkha). In 1645 he visited Kalmyk Oirats on the Volga River (modern Kalmykia). In 1648 he developed the Todo script (tod üzüg, from todrhagar (clear)) by improving the traditional Uyghur script. He elimin ...

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Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland became a republic under Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector (see Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate). In 1660, shortly after C ...

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Catherine of Braganza (25 November 1638 – 30 November 1705), or Catarina de Bragança was the queen consort of King Charles II of England. Born in Lisbon, she was the second surviving daughter of King John IV of Portugal (at the time Duke of Braganza) and his wife, Louise of Guzman (Medina-Sidonia). She was seen as a useful conduit for contracting an alliance between Portugal and England, after the treaty of the Pyren ...

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United Kingdom This article is part of the series: Politics of the United Kingdom Parliament The Crown: Queen Elizabeth II House of Lords Lord Chancellor: Lord Falconer House of Commons Speaker: Michael Martin Prime Minister: Tony Blair Cabinet Government departments Scottish Parliament Scottish ExecutiveIncluding:

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Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle Mariotte law) is one of the gas laws. Boyle's Law is named after the Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle (1627-1691) who discovered it in 1662. Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) was a French physicist who discovered the same law independently of Boyle in 1676, so this law is often known as Mariotte's or Mariotte Boyle law. Boyle's Law states that the product of the volume and pressure of a fixed quantity of an ideal gas is constant, given constant temperature. Expressed mathe ...

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Bregenz is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost federal state of Austria. The town is located on the shores of Lake Constance, the third largest freshwater lake in Europe. It is especially famous for the annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele. This renowned festival takes place on and around a stage on Lake Constance, where a different opera is performed every second year. Other landmarks of Bregenz are Martins Tower, St. Gallus Church, the Art House, th ...

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Charles II (Carlos Segundo) of Spain (November 6, 1661–November 1, 1700) was king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily, nearly all of Italy (except Piedmont, the Papal States and Venice), and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines. Charles was the only surviving son of his Habsburg predecessor, King Philip IV of Spain and his second Queen (and niece), Mariana of Austria, another Habsburg. His birth was greeted with joy by the Spaniards, who feared the disputed succession w ...

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Caen is a city and a commune of northwestern France. It is the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Calvados département, and the capital of the administrative Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy) région. Population 115,000, total urban sprawl around 200,000. ...

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Chinese export porcelain refers to a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe between the 16th and the 20th century. Chinese export porcelain - Early China porcelain trade. Wares from the 16th century include Kraak porcelain, Yixing stonewares , Blanc-de-Chine, Blue and white, Famille verte, noire, jaune and rose, Chinese Imari, Armorial wares and Canton porcelain. Chinese export porcelain is generally decorative, but without the symbolic signific ...

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Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban (May 15, 1633 - March 30, 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for both his skill to design fortifications and to break through them. He also advised Louis XIV on how to consolidate France's borders, to make them more defensible. Vauban made a radical suggestion of giving up some land that was indefensible to allow for a stronger, less porous border with France's neighbours. Vauban - Life and do ...

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Velletri (ancient Velitrae) is a commune in the province of Rome, in Lazio (Latium). It is bounded by other communes of Rocca di Papa, Lariano, Cisterna di Latina, Artena, Aprilia, Nemi, Genzano di Roma, Lanuvio. Velletri is renowned as one of the main centres for wine production in the Latium. Velletri - History. Velletri's origins are uncertain. A settlement here existed since very ancient times, though scholars debated if Etruscan, Latin or Volscan. During the First Latin War, during ...

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Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel (Alkmaar, 1572 - London, November 7, 1633) was a Dutch inventor of first navigable submarine in 1620. Drebbel only had elementary education (which included Latin) but had no university education. In youth he was apprenticed to the famous engraver Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem and Drebbel married in 1595 Sophia Jansdochter, one of Goltzius' younger sisters. In the same year he settled at Alkmaar, where he devoted himself to engraving and publishing maps and pictures. In 1604, King James I of England receive ...

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Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. The area is dominated by shopping and entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House, which is also often known as "Covent Garden". The area is bounded by High Holborn, Kingsway, The Strand and Charing Cross Road. Covent Garden Piazza is located in the geographical centre of the area and was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974, when the wholesale market ...

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Curaçao (pronounced [kura'são]) is an island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. The isle is the largest and most populous of the three so-called ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and belongs to the Netherlands Antilles, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao's capital is Willemstad. Curaçao has a land area of 444 square kilometres (171 mi²). At the 2001 Netherlands Antilles census, the population was 130,627 inhabitants, which means a population dens ...

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The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") was established on March 20, 1602, when the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stocks. The VOC consisted of 6 Cham ...

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Joe Lieberman (D) Connecticut (pronounced /kəˈnɛtɪkət/; the second C is silent) is a state of the United States, part of the New England region, as well as the southernmost state in New England and the wealthiest state in the country. Connecticut was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. USS Connecticut was named in honor of this state. Connecticut - History. Main article: ...

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The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young. The plot of the comedy, often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, is generally less important than its witty and often bawdy dialogue. The comedy of manners was preceded by the new comedy of the Ancient Greek playwright Menander. His style, elaborate plots, ...

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The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. Wittelsbach - Reign in Germany. The Wittelsbach family was the ruling dynasty of the German duchy of Bavaria from 1180 to 1918 and of the Rhine Palatinate from 1214 until 1805; in 1815 the latter territory was partly incorporated into Bavaria, which had been elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon in 1806. The family provided two Holy Roman Emperors: Louis IV (1314-1347) and Charle ...

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