1708 in topic:
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1708 - Events.
March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth
July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
September 28 - Peter t ...
April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.
April 16 - Events.
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the ...
April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). There are 265 days remaining.
April 10 - Events.
1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
1865 - American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General R ...
Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the only non episcopal country house, in England, to hold the title "palace". The Palace, one of England's greatest houses in every sense of the word, was built between 1705 and circa 1722. Its construction was originally intended to be a gift to the 1st Duke of Marlborough from a grateful nation in return for military triumph against the French. However, it soon became the subject of political infighting which led to Marlborough ...
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 ...
"Father" Bernard Smith (c 1630 - 1708) was a German-born master organ maker in England in the late 17th century.
Smith served his apprenticeship in Germany before emigrating to England in 1660. He built an organ for the Chapel Royal and, in 1681, became the king's organ maker. Along with his hated rival Renatus Harris he was one of the two most prominent organ builders of the late 17th century.
The rivalry between Smith and Harris led to the famous Battle of the Organs in 1684, when both were bidding for the contr ...
The word transit has two meanings in astronomy:
A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point.
A transit occurs when a celestial body crosses the meridian due to the Earth's rotation, about halfway between rising and setting. For instance, the Sun transits the meridian at solar noon. Observation of meridian transi ...
This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
21st century in architecture:
2000s
20th century in architecture:
1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
19th century in architecture:
1800s - 1810s - 1820s - 1830s - 1840s - 1850s - 1860s - 1870s - 1880s - 1890s
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Bad Radkersburg (Slovenia Radgona) is a city in the southeast of the Austrian state of Styria and capital of the district of Radkersburg. It is located at an elevation of 208 m and covers an area of 2.17 km². Its population amounts to about 1,940 people.
Bad Radkersburg is a spa sporting a thermal spring with a heat of 80 °C. This and the longest sunshine duration in Austria make the town an a ...
A Fire Temple (also Dar-e Mihr, or Atash Kadeh in Iran, Agiary in India, and various names in North America) is a place of worship for Zoroastrians. It is typically a building with a hall and various rooms or chambers, the most holy of which houses a sacred fire, which laymen make offerings to and priests perform rituals before. In Zoroastrianism fire is revered as the son of Ahura Mazda, and represented by the Amesha Spenta Asha Vahishta, or "Best Righteousness." There are three grades of fires: the Atash ...
Sikhism was established by ten Gurus, teachers or masters, over the period 1469 to 1708. These teachers, believed to be sent from God for the troubled people of the land, were enlightened souls whose main purpose in life was the spiritual and moral well-being of the masses, or the equivalent of Prophets & Messiahs of the other major respective monotheist religions. Each master added to and reinforced the message taught by the previous, resulting to the creation of the religion of Sikhism. Guru Nanak was the first Guru and Guru Gobind Singh the final Guru in human form. When Guru Gobind Singh left this world, he made th ...
1644 - Unknown date.
The opera Ormindo is first performed in Venice. Music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Giovanni Faustini.
Kolumna Zygmunta (Sigismund's Column) erected in Warsaw to commemorate King Zygmunt III Waza, who moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596.
Philosopher René Descartes publishes Principia Philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy).
1644 - Ongoing events.
English Civil War (1642-1649)< ...
Sikhism (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ) is a religion based on the teachings of ten Gurus who lived primarily in 16th and 17th century India. It is one of the world's major religions with over 23 million followers. Sikhism comes from the word Sikh, which in turn comes from its Sanskrit root 'śiṣya' (शिष्य) which means "disciple" or "learner", or from the equivalent Pāli word 'sikkhā' (Including:
This article concerns the political movement supporting the restoration of the House of Stuart, not the earlier Jacobean period. For details of the attendant wars, see: Jacobite Rising. It is not about Jacobinism or the Jacobite Orthodox Church.
Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland (and after 1707, Great Britain). The movement took its name from the Latin form ...
A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Domes do not have to be perfectly spherical in cross-section, however; a dome may be a section through an ellipse. If the baseline is taken parallel to the shorter of an ellipse's two diameters, a tall dome results, giving a sense of upward reach. A section across the longer axis results in a low dome, capping the volume instead. A very low dome is a saucer dome (see below). All the surfaces of any dome are curved. A s ...
1646 - Events.
The Westminster Confession of Faith
1646 - Ongoing events.
Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War (1642-1649)
1646 - Births.
February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
February 17 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
February 23 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d ...
1648 - Ongoing events.
English Civil War (1642-1649)
1648 - Births.
January 1 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
February 23 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
April 4 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (d. 1721)
April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
April 9 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Ga ...
The Brethren are any of several Christian denominations, most of which are Anabaptist-Pietist .
Brethren - Beliefs.
The Anabaptist-Pietist Brethren, and even other Brethren bodies, share in common many beliefs. Individual articles contain more specific information of the doctrines of various bodies.
Christian anarchism, Peace church, Simple living
Brethren - Schwarzenau Brethren groups.
The Schwarzenau Brethren groups originated in 1708 in ...
Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 – October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other Baroque composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
Alessandro Scarlatti - Life.
Scarlatti was born in Sicily, either in Trapani or Palermo. He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and there is reason to suppose that he had som ...
Admiral of the Fleet is a rank of the British Royal Navy and other navies, the equivalent of Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy.
The rank evolved from the ancient sailing days of Royal Navy squadrons. Each squadron was designated a colour, that of Red, White, or Blue. Each coloured squadron was assigned an Admiral, who in turn had command over a Vice-Admiral and a Rear Admiral. The Admiral of the Fleet, therefore, commanded th ...
