1666 - Events. August 5 - English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died. September 5 - Great Fire of London ends. Sir Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight into its component co ...

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History of Morocco, History of Morocco - Roman and sub-Roman Morocco, History of Morocco - Early Islamic Morocco, History of Morocco - Timeline, History of Morocco - Morocco 1666-1912, History of Morocco - European Influence, History of Morocco - Independence

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Cavendish’s Natural Philosophy Eileen O’Neill offers an overview of Cavendish’s natural philosophy and its critical reception in her introduction to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. O’Neill describes Cavendish’s natural philosophy as rejecting Aristotelianism and mechanical philosophy and favouring Stoic doctrines. She notes that while women rarely wrote about natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, Cavendish published six books on the subject. O’Neill points out that Cavendish herself ...

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Margaret Cavendish, Margaret Cavendish - A True Relation of my Birth Breeding and Life 1656, Margaret Cavendish - Poems and Fancies 1653, Margaret Cavendish - Observations upon Experimental Philosophy 1666, Margaret Cavendish - Other Works, Margaret Cavendish - Sources, Margaret Cavendish - Links

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Guru Gobind Singh was no ordinary mortal. The signs were there right from his birth. In 1666, on the Guru's birth, a pious Muslim fakir, Sayyad Bhikhan Shah, declared: "God has sent a new light on this earth".

He then decided to test the newborn 'prince'. Producing two jars of sweets obtained from a Hindu and a Muslim vendor, Bhikhan Shah tried to learn the child's preference from the jar he touched. The baby, however, clutched both jars and smiled, whereupon the fakir acknowledged him to be a master of both communities.

(See also: Gobind Singh, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1660s - Events and Trends. Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669. The Great Plague 1665 in England. It is considered an outbreak of bubonic plague. The Great Fire of London 1666. Most of the City of London is destroyed. However, many of the rats considered responsible for the Great Plague are burned and the epidem ...

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Guru Gobind Singh (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ) (Patna, Bihar, India, December 22, 1666 – October 7, 1708, Nanded, Maharashtra,India) was the tenth and last of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on November 11, 1675 following in the footsteps of his father Guru Teg Bahadur. Before he died, he nominated the Guru Granth Sahib as the next perpetual Guru of the Si ...

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1592 - Events. January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII. Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy 1592 - Births. January 5 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666) January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655) < ...

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Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her relatively brief reign, Cardinal Mazarin served as France's chief minister. She was born in Valladolid, Spain, as the daughter of Habsburg parents, Philip III, king of Spain, and Margaret of Austria. On November 24, 1615, she was married to King Louis XIII of France (1601-1643), part of the Bourbon Dynasty. They would have two sons, Louis (the dauphin) born in 1638 and Philip I, Duke ...

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Cliveden (pronounced CLIVV-d'n) is a mansion in Buckinghamshire, England overlooking the River Thames. It has an intriguing history. The present house, which is now a hotel owned by the National Trust, was built in 1851 by the architect Charles Barry. However this house is near the site of a much older construction, which was built in 1666 as the home of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. His architect was William Winde. The house was let to Frederick, Prince of Wales from 1739 to 1751. It was during this tenure, in the r ...

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William Lilly (May 1 (O.S.)/May 11 (N.S.), 1602 - June 9, 1681), was a famed English astrologer and occultist during his time. Lilly was particularly adept at interpreting the astrological charts drawn up for horary questions, as this was his speciality. He caused much controversy in 1666 for allegedly predicting the Great Fire of London some 14 years before it happened. For this reason many people believed that he may have had started the fir ...

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Anna of Austria could be a reference to either Anna of Austria (1573-1598), Queen Consort of Sigismund III of Poland Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (or Anne), Queen Consort of Louis XIII of France and mother of (and regent for) Louis XIV of France. Other related archivesAnna of Austria (1573-1598), Anna of Austria (1601-1666), Louis XIII of France, Louis XIV of France, Sigismund III of Poland

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Adrien Auzout (January 28th, 1622–May 23rd, 1691) was a French astronomer. He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 made observations of comets, and argued in favor of their following elliptical or parabolic orbits. (In this he was opposed by his rival Johannes Hevelius.) Adrien was briefly a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1666 to 1668, and a founding member of the french Royal Obseratory. (He may have left the academy due t ...

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The Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Moroccan royal family. The name Alaouite comes from its founder, Al-Raschid (or Ali Cherif), who became Sultan in 1666. Al-Raschid, unlike preceding dynasties, did not seize power but was formally invited by the people of Fez to take over the throne of Morocco. The Alaouite family claimed descent from Muhammad, through the line of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Zahra (Muhammad's daughter). They entered Morocco probably from Yanbu in the Hejaz at the end of the 13th Century. T ...

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Donmeh (dönme) is a Turkish word for a religious convert. It refers to a group of Jews of the Near East who followed Sabbatai Zevi (also called Shabbatai Zvi) and converted to Islam in 1666. Zevi's conversion is generally understood to have been forced. Donmeh - History. While outwardly Muslim, the Donmeh secretly remained Jews, and continued to practice Jewish rituals covertly. They worshipped Sabbatai Zevi as the Messiah and an incarnation of God, observe certain Jewish rituals and pray in ...

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The list of classic equitation books will never be complete, but here is a start: Xenophon, On Horsemanship See the Project Gutenberg etext Antoinine de Pluvinel, L'Instruction du Roi. Ca. 1666. M. de la Gueriniere, Ecole de Cavalerie. France, 1733. John Solomon Rarey, The Complete Horse Tamer, 1862. See his family's website for a complete etext Edward L. Anderson and Price Collier, Riding and Driving. Macmillan, 1900. Count de Souza, Eleme

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The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Académie des Sciences - History. The Academy of Sciences owes its origin to Colbert's plan to create a general academy. He chose a small group of scholars who met on December 22, 1666 in the Ki ...

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The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 pits at Stonehenge named after the seventeenth century antiquarian, John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge in the late fourth and early third millennium BC. Despite decades of argument and analysis, their purpose is still unknown although an astronomical role has often been suggested. Whilst visiting the monument in 1666, Aubrey noticed five circular cavities in the ground and noted them in his records. These features were ignored or not seen by the later antiquarians to in ...

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In 1992 Queen Elizabeth II in her Christmas message, December 25, 1992, when she described the closing year as her "annus horribilis." making a direct reference to the 1666 reference : "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis." Her most immediate reference was to a fire in Windsor Castle just four days before, but this occurred after the publicity of several negati ...

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Annus horribilis, Annus horribilis - The Horrible Year of 1666, Annus horribilis - Queen Elizabeth II, Annus horribilis - Kofi Annan

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Arabs conquered Morocco in the seventh century, bringing their civilization and Islam, to which most of the Berbers converted, forming states such as the Kingdom of Nekor. The country soon broke away from the control of the distant Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad under Idris ibn Salih who founded the Idrisid Dynasty. Morocco became a centre of learning and a major power. Morocco would reach its height under a series of Berber dynasties that would replace the Arab Idrisids. First the Almoravids, then the Almohads would see Morocco rule most ...

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History of Morocco, History of Morocco - Roman and sub-Roman Morocco, History of Morocco - Early Islamic Morocco, History of Morocco - Timeline, History of Morocco - Morocco 1666-1912, History of Morocco - European Influence, History of Morocco - Independence

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The successful Portuguese efforts to control the Atlantic coast in the 15th century did not affect the Mediterranean heart of Morocco. After the Napoleonic Wars, Egypt and the North African maghreb became increasingly ungovernable from Constantinople, the resort of pirates under local beys, and as Europe industrialized, an increasingly prized potential for colonization. The Maghreb had far greater proven wealth than the unknown rest of Africa and a location of strategic importance affecting the exit from the Mediterranean. For the first time ...

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History of Morocco, History of Morocco - Roman and sub-Roman Morocco, History of Morocco - Early Islamic Morocco, History of Morocco - Timeline, History of Morocco - Morocco 1666-1912, History of Morocco - European Influence, History of Morocco - Independence

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