1688 - Births. January 18 - Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772) February 2 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763) April 4 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) April 15 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758) May 22 - Alexande ...

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During his three year reign, King James II fell victim to the political battles in the British Isles between Catholicism and Protestantism on the one hand, and on the other, between the divine right of the Crown and the political rights of Parliament. James's greatest political problem was his Catholicism, which left him alienated from both parties in Parliament. Any attempts at reform by James were thus viewed with great suspicion. James also pursued a number of untenable policies, such as a desire for a stand ...

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Anne was born in St. James's Palace of London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the Lady Anne Hyde (daughter of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, an important politician). Her paternal uncle was King Charles II, and her older sister was the future Mary II. Anne and Mary were the only children of the Duke and Duchess of York to survive into adulthood. Anne suffered as a child from an eye infection; for medical treatment, she was sent to France. She lived with her grandmother, Henrietta Ma ...

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The nineteenth century Oxford Movement within the Church of England began as a "High Church" movement, following a call to action to save the Church, whose position, with Catholic Emancipation and other changes in the English body politic, was perceived as being in danger. High Churchmen strove against the erosion of the Church of England's traditionally-privileged and legally-entrenched role in English society; however, over time a significant number of the leading lights of the Oxford Movement converted to Roman Catholicism, following the ...

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June 5 - 535 to 1899. 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople 1017 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (b. 976) 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245) 1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289) 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324) 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522) 1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer ...

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An automaton (plural: automata) is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. Automaton - History. Automata, from the Greek automatos, “acting of one’s own will, self-moving,” is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, however, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public striking clocks, or the cuckoo and any other animated figures on a c ...

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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). Avignon (pronounced [aviɲɔ̃] in IPA, Provençal: Avignoun) is a commune in southern France with some 88,300 inhabitants in the city itself and 155,500 in the Greater Avignon area. Avignon - Location. Avignon is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, in the Vauclu ...

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