1668 - Article Index

Encyclopedia - 1668: Encyclopedia - 1668
1668 - Births. April 20 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739) May 8 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747) June 23...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aurangzeb: Encyclopedia - Aurangzeb
Abu Muzaffar Muhiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir (Persian: ابو مظفر محی الدین محمد اورنگزیب عالمگیر) (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 17: Encyclopedia - August 17
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sveriges Riksbank: Encyclopedia - Sveriges Riksbank
Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish National Bank) is the central bank of Sweden, sometimes called just the Bank of Sweden. It is known to be the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beverly Massachusetts: Encyclopedia - Beverly Massachusetts
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basra: Encyclopedia - Basra
Basra (also spelled Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: البصرة, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation: Encyclopedia - Shakespeare's Reputation
In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was seen as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but ever since the l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Astronomer: Encyclopedia - Astronomer
An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. Astronomy is generally thought to hav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 7: Encyclopedia - April 7
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. 52...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adrien Auzout: Encyclopedia - Adrien Auzout
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 cour...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voynich Manuscript: Encyclopedia - Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - An Essay Towards A Real Character And A Philosophical Language: Encyclopedia - An Essay Towards A Real Character And A Philosophical Language
The best remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins was An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (London, 166...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 20: Encyclopedia - April 20
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. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bombay Presidency: Encyclopedia - Bombay Presidency
Bombay Presidency was a former province of British India. At its greatest extent, Bombay Presidency comprised the present-day state of Gu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 30: Encyclopedia - April 30
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructed Language: Encyclopedia - Constructed Language
An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and voc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Britain Yearly Meeting: Encyclopedia - Britain Yearly Meeting
Britain Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Isles ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windsor Castle: Encyclopedia - Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is, along with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, one of the principal official residences of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yearly Meeting: Encyclopedia - Yearly Meeting
Yearly Meetings are gatherings of members and attenders of the Religious Society of Friends—also known as Quakers or Friends—from acr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Ii Of Spain: Encyclopedia - Charles Ii Of Spain
Charles II (Carlos Segundo) of Spain (November 6, 1661–November 1, 1700) was king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily, nearly all of Italy (ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comtat Venaissin: Encyclopedia - Comtat Venaissin
The Comtat Venaissin, often called the Comtat for short, is the former name of the region around the city of Avignon in the Provence-Alpe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vauban: Encyclopedia - Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban (May 15, 1633 - March 30, 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Universal Language: Encyclopedia - Universal Language
The idea of a universal language is at least as old as the Biblical story of Babel. Babel's fall has the mythical point that there was on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - War Of The Spanish Succession: Encyclopedia - War Of The Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a major European armed conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the last Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Ii Of England: Encyclopedia - Charles Ii Of England
Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chandos Portrait: Encyclopedia - Chandos Portrait
The "Chandos" portrait is one of the most famous portraits believed to depict William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The portrait is named fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian Beer: Encyclopedia - Canadian Beer
Canada has a rich tradition of beer brewing, often intertwined with the country's history. While the Canadian beer industry is massive an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cambridge Platonists: Encyclopedia - Cambridge Platonists
The Cambridge Platonists were a group of philosophers at Cambridge University, England in the middle of the 17th century (between 1633 an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Military History: Encyclopedia - British Military History
By chronology Prehistoric Britain Iron Age Britain Roman Britain Sub-Roman Britain Medieval Britain Early Modern Britain Modern Britain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cathedral Of Saint John The Baptist Turin: Encyclopedia - Cathedral Of Saint John The Baptist Turin
The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Italian Duomo di San Giovanni, "Dome of Saint John") was built in Turin during 1491-1498. It is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ceuta: Encyclopedia - Ceuta
Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on a northern tip of the Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast near the Strait of Gibra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia - Hell
Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. The English word 'hell' comes from the Teutonic 'H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 27: Encyclopedia - April 27
April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. April 27 - Events. 112...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1739: Encyclopedia - 1739
1739 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1741: Encyclopedia - 1741
1741 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1738: Encyclopedia - 1738
1738 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1736: Encyclopedia - 1736
1736 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1735: Encyclopedia - 1735
1735 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1744: Encyclopedia - 1744
1744 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1747: Encyclopedia - 1747
1747 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Girl: Encyclopedia - Girl
A girl is a young female human, as opposed to a boy, a young male human. The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mumbai: Encyclopedia - Mumbai
Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई ) (pronounced /mumʋaːi/ in Marathi, and /mʊm'baɪ/ in English), formerly known as Bombay is the capit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1772: Encyclopedia - 1772
1772 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1751: Encyclopedia - 1751
1751 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1733: Encyclopedia - 1733
1733 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1723: Encyclopedia - 1723
1723 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1604: Encyclopedia - 1604
1604 - Events. January 14 – Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1603: Encyclopedia - 1603
1603 - Events. March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1602: Encyclopedia - 1602
1602 - Events. 3 January - Battle of Kinsale - the battle happened on 3 January 1602 according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - September 12: Encyclopedia - September 12
September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). There are 110 days remaining. September 12 - Events. 490 BC - Athens ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1606: Encyclopedia - 1606
1606 - Events. January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1620: Encyclopedia - 1620
1620 - Events. September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1694: Encyclopedia - 1694
1694 - Events. February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. July 27 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1660s: Encyclopedia - 1660s
1630s 1640s 1650s - 1660s - 1670s 1680s 1690s 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1660s - Events and Trends. Samuel Pepy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1650s: Encyclopedia - 1650s
1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1650s - Significant Events and Trends. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1640: Encyclopedia - 1640
1640 - Events. Charles I summons and rapidly dismisses the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars. Octo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Boyle: Encyclopedia - Robert Boyle
The Honourable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 - December 30, 1692) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, noted for his work in physics ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1710: Encyclopedia - 1710
1710 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St Paul's Cathedral: Encyclopedia Ii - St Paul's Cathedral - Wren's St Paul's
The task of designing a replacement structure was assigned to Christopher Wren in 1668, along with over fifty other churches. His first d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Tomkins: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Tomkins - Life
He was born in St Davids in Pembrokeshire. His father was also a musician, "vicar choral" of the cathedral of St Davids and organist ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Shakespeare Criticism - 19th Century
Charles Lamb, 1811: "We talk of Shakespeare's admirable observation of life, when we should feel, that not from a petty inquisition into ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St. Augustine Florida: Encyclopedia Ii - St. Augustine Florida - History
St. Augustine is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States; only San Juan on Puerto Rico preda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Empire - The Golden Age Of Spain: The Sun Never Sets 1521-1643
The 16th and 17th centuries are sometimes called "the Golden Age of Spain" (in Spanish, Siglo de Oro). During the sixteenth century, Spai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern Netherlands - Their Place In The Broader Netherlands
As they were very wealthy, the Netherlands in general were a jewel in the ever-debt-burdened Habsburg crown, but unlike others of the Hab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - House Of Vasa: Encyclopedia Ii - House Of Vasa - Kings Of Poland
John III of Sweden married Catherine Jagiełło, the sister of Sigismund II of Poland, and when Sigismund died without a male heir, their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hudson's Bay Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Hudson's Bay Company - History
Hudson's Bay Company - Early years. In the 17th century the French had a monopoly on the Canadian fur trade. However, two French trader...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian Navy: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian Navy - Weapons
Indian Navy - Ships. The fleet of the Indian Navy is a mix of indigenously built vessels and ships bought from other nations. Though th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Universal Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Universal Language - Seventeenth Century
Recognisable strands in the contemporary ideas on universal languages took form only in Early Modern Europe. A lingua franca or trade lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cambridge Platonists: Encyclopedia Ii - Cambridge Platonists - Programme
The Cambridge Platonists were reacting to two pressures. On the one hand, the narrow dogmatism of the Puritan divines, with their anti-ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windsor Castle: Encyclopedia Ii - Windsor Castle - Location And Architecture
The castle is located in the Berkshire town of Windsor, in the Thames Valley to the west of London. Eton College is located about a mile ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean Mairet: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean Mairet - Life
He was born at Besançon, and went to Paris to study at the Collège des Grassins about 1625. In that year he produced his first piece Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vauban: Encyclopedia Ii - Vauban - Life And Doctrines
Vauban was born in Saint-Léger-de-Foucheret (renamed Saint-Léger-Vauban in his honour), in the département of Yonne, in Burgundy, Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - War Of The Spanish Succession: Encyclopedia Ii - War Of The Spanish Succession - Origins
As King Charles II of Spain had been both mentally and physically infirm from a very young age, it was clear that he could not produce an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements - The Composition Of White Light
On December 21, 1671 he was proposed as a candidate for admission into the Royal Society by Dr Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, and on Jan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solovetsky Monastery: Encyclopedia Ii - Solovetsky Monastery - History
Solovetsky Monastery was founded in the late 1420s by monks Zosima and Savvatiy of Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. In the 15th and 16th cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Simon Ushakov: Encyclopedia Ii - Simon Ushakov - Biography
We know almost nothing about the early years of Simon Ushakov. His birth date is deduced from his inscription on one of the icons: In the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amesbury Massachusetts: Encyclopedia Ii - Amesbury Massachusetts - Clerks Managers And Mayors
Amesbury Town Clerks 1655-1659 - Thomas Macy 1659-1674 - Richard Currier 1674-1712 - Thomas Currier 1712-1754 - Orlando Bagley, Jr. 1754-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palace Of Versailles: Encyclopedia Ii - Palace Of Versailles - The Would-be Versailles
The most lasting monuments to the past glories of Versailles are not in France but in the other countries of continental Europe. When Lou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Cyprus: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Cyprus - Modern History
History of Cyprus - Overview. Following the Ottoman Empires defeat in World War I, Cyprus was annexed by Britain in 1925 and made a cro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Military History: Encyclopedia Ii - British Military History - List Of British Military Encounters
British military history - Prehistoric and ancient period. Roman conquest of Britain (43) British military history - Mediæval perio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burhanpur: Encyclopedia Ii - Burhanpur - History
It was founded in 1400 by a Muslim prince of the Farukhi dynasty of Kandesh, whose successors held it for 200 years, when the Faruqi king...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Buonaparte: Encyclopedia Ii - Carlo Buonaparte - Marriage And Children
He is said to have been in love with a girl of the Forcioli family. His paternal uncle Archdeacon Luciano Buonaparte (January 8, 1718 - O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Early Novels: Encyclopedia Ii - Early Novels - Modern
Early novels - Latin American. The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi - (1816) Early novels - French Canadian. L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of The Kings Of Georgia: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of The Kings Of Georgia - Ancient Iberia
Iberia was a Greek-Roman name of the ancient kingdom of Kartli in what is now Eastern Georgia which began about 302 BC and fell to the By...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Mumbai: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Mumbai - Ancient Times
The present day Mumbai city region was originally made up of seven small isles. The islands were Bombay, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alain-rené Lesage: Encyclopedia Ii - Alain-rené Lesage - Life
Alain-René Lesage - Youth and education. Rhuys was a legal district, and Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Cricket To 1696: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Cricket To 1696 - Chronology: 1300 - 1696
A number of cricket books make reference to incidents in the distant past before the game became properly organised and promoted during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hope Diamond: Encyclopedia Ii - Hope Diamond - French Blue
The Hope Diamond's history can be traced to a blue diamond named "Tavernier Blue," which was originally mined from the Kollur mine in Gol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zygmunt Iii Vasa: Encyclopedia Ii - Zygmunt Iii Vasa - Biography
He was born at Gripsholm during his parents' imprisonment by King Eric XIV. Although Sweden was protestant, Sigismund was raised as a cat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespearean Authorship: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespearean Authorship - Common Arguments
The conventional view is that Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. He then moved to London and became a poet, a playwrigh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samuel Pepys: Encyclopedia Ii - Samuel Pepys - Chronology
Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of John Pepys, a tailor, and Margaret (née Kite), sister of a Whitechapel butcher. His father'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Navy: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Navy - History
Main articles: Imperial Russian Navy, Soviet Navy. The origins of the Russian navy may be traced to the period between the 4th and the 6t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Restoration Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Restoration Comedy - Comedies
Variety and dizzying fashion changes are typical of Restoration comedy. Even though the "Restoration drama" unit taught to college studen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sveriges Riksbank: Encyclopedia Ii - Sveriges Riksbank - History
The Riksbank began its operations in 1668, its antecedent being Stockholms Banco (also known as the Bank of Palmstruch), which was founde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Dryden: Encyclopedia Ii - John Dryden - Later Life And Career
After the Restoration Dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his day and he transferred his allegi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Northern Mariana Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Northern Mariana Islands - Geography And Climate
Together with Guam to the south, also a United States territory, the Northern Mariana Islands make up the island arc of the Mariana Islan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nord: Encyclopedia Ii - Nord - History
Nord comprises the French part of former Flanders, excluding the western part separated in 1237 as the county of Artois (now a part of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Philosophy Anniversaries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Philosophy Anniversaries - January
List of philosophy anniversaries - 1. 1614: John Wilkins born. 1815: Charles Bernard Renouvier born. 1921: Ismail al-Faruqi born. Li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel - History
Novel - Traditions of Prose Fiction: The Ancient World. As Pierre Daniel Huet noted in 1670, the tradition of epic works went back as f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ole Rømer: Encyclopedia Ii - Ole Rømer - Rømer And The Speed Of Light
The determination of longitude is a significant practical problem in cartography and navigation. King Philip III of Spain offered a prize...   » Read the article