1668 - Births.
April 20 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
May 8 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
June 23 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
October 18 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
November 10 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
November 10 - François Couperin, French composer (d. 1733)
November 11 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar (d. 1736)
December 31 - He ...
Abu Muzaffar Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir (Persian: ابو مظفر محی الدین محمد اورنگزیب عالمگیر) (November 3, 1618 – March 3, 1707), usually known as Aurangzeb, but also sometimes as Alamgir I, was the ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1658 until 1707. He was and is a very controversial figure in Indian history.
Unlike his predecessors, Aurangzeb led a remarkably austere and pious life. Strict adherence to Islam and Sharia (Islamic law)—as he interpreted them—were ...
August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 136 days remaining.
August 17 - Events.
1427 - First band of gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris
1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1850 - Argentine's War of Independence hero, Genera ...
Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish National Bank) is the central bank of Sweden, sometimes called just the Bank of Sweden. It is known to be the world's oldest central bank.
Sveriges Riksbank - History.
The Riksbank began its operations in 1668, its antecedent being Stockholms Banco (also known as the Bank of Palmstruch), which was founded by Johan Palmstruch in 1656. Although the bank was private, it was the King who chose its management: in a letter to Palmstruch he gave permission to ...
Beverly is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 39,862. The mayor is William Scanlon, who was elected to his fifth term in 2003.
Beverly Massachusetts - History and Trivia.
Beverly was first settled in 1626 and was officially incorporated in 1668.
The first ship commissioned by the United States military (actually the US Army, as the US Navy did not yet exist), the armed schooner Hannah, first sailed from Beverly Harbor on Sep ...
Basra (also spelled Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: البصرة, Al-Basrah) is the third largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. 1,377,000 (2003). It is the country's main port. Basra is the capital of the Basra province. The city is located along the Shatt al-Arab (Arvandrood) waterway near the Persian Gulf. Basra is 55 km from the Persian Gulf and 545 km fr ...
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the late 17th century he has been considered the supreme playwright, and to a lesser extent poet, of the English language. No other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British (and later the world) stage as Shakespeare. The plays have often been drastically adapted in performance; King Lear, for instance, had a happy ending between 1681 and 1838. During the 18th and 19th cent ...
An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
Astronomy is generally thought to have begun in ancient Babylon by the Persian Zoroastrian astrologer priests (the magi). Recent studies of Babylonian records have shown them to be extremely accurate for the ancient night sky. Following the Babylonians, the Egyptians also had an emphasis on ...
April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining.
April 7 - Events.
529 - first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu
1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1655 - Fab ...
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (circa 620 BC – 560 BC), a slave and story-teller living in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables has also become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals.
The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare an ...
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 ...
The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unidentified alphabet and unintelligible language.
Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers — including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame — who all failed to decipher a single word. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into the Holy Grail of histori ...
The best remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins was An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668), in which he expounds a new universal language for the use of philosophers.
In the essay, Wilkins defines his "real character", which is a new orthography for the English language that resembles shorthand, and his "philosophical language" which is based an early cla ...
April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining.
April 20 - Events.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion.
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian ...
Bombay Presidency was a former province of British India. At its greatest extent, Bombay Presidency comprised the present-day state of Gujarat, the western two-thirds of Maharashtra state, including the regions of Konkan, Desh, and Kandesh, and northwestern Karnataka state of India; It also included Pakistan's Sind state and the British territory of Aden in Yemen. It consisted partly of districts, which were directly under British rule, and partly of native or princely states, which were ruled by local rulers under the administration ...
April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April.
April 30 - Events.
313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 - Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit, m ...
An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. Some are designed for use in human communication (usually to function as international auxiliary languages), but others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experimentation, secrecy (codes), or for the experience of doing so (artistic languages, language games). These ...
Britain Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man). It is among the many yearly meetings of Friends around the world.
Britain Yearly Meeting, which until 1995 was known as London Yearly Meeting, grew out of various national and regional meetings of Friends in the 1650s and 1660s and has met annually since 1668.
Britain Yearly Meeting - BYM as an organisation.
Britain Yearly Meeting corre ...
Windsor Castle is, along with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, one of the principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II stays there on many weekends of the year, as well as during the prestigious Royal Meeting at the nearby Ascot Racecourse. It claims the distinction of being the largest occupied castle in the world, and among the oldest.
Windsor Castle - Location and architecture.
The castle is located in the Berkshire town of Windsor, in the Thames V ...
Yearly Meetings are gatherings of members and attenders of the Religious Society of Friends—also known as Quakers or Friends—from across a geographical area such as a country, state, or an area surrounding a city. In addition to referring to the gathering itself, Friends also use the term Yearly Meeting to refer to the collection of smaller, more frequent constituent Meetings within that geographical area. These constituent Meetings go by various names such as Quarterly Meetings and Monthly Meetings, or Region ...
