September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining. It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099). September 11 - Events. 1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins. 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors. ...

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Carl Alexander Clerck (1709-22 July 1765) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist. Clerck came from a family in the petty nobility and entered the University of Uppsala in 1726. Little is known of his studies; although a contemporary of Linnaeus, it is unknown whether he had any contact with him during his time in Uppsala. His limited means forced him to leave university early and enter into government service, later endin ...

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Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland became a republic under Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector (see Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate). In 1660, shortly after C ...

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Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ,Zaporoz'ka Sich) original Slavonic name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole Zaporizhzhia or to Zaporozhian Host. Initially Zaporizhian Sich was a fortified military camp the foundation for which was laid out on the Isle of Khortytsia (Mala Khortytsia, Khortytsia Minor) in 1556 by D.I. ...

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Zulu kaNtombhela, son of Ntombhela kaMalandela, (also known as Zulu Nkosinkulu ?) was the founder and chief of the Zulu clan from ca. 1709. In the Zulu language, Zulu means heaven, or sky. When his father Ntombhela died his eldest son Qwabe laid claim to his land, causing his younger son Zulu, along with his mother Nozinja, to set out to find land of his own. He lead his followers south to the Mkhumbane river basin on the White Mfolozi river (are they the same ?). Here, amid the tall euphorbia trees that were destined to become the symbol of Zulu chieftan ...

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A castaway is a person that is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island either to evade their captors or the world in general. Alternatively a person or item can be cast away, meaning rejected or discarded. The provisions and resources available to castaways allow them to live on the island until other people arrive to take them off the island. However, such rescue missions may never happen if the person is not known to still be ...

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A blast furnace is a type of furnace for smelting whereby the combustion material and ore are supplied with air from the bottom of the chamber such that the chemical reaction does not take place only at the surface. Typically this is used for the production of pig iron from iron ore. Blast furnace - History. The oldest known blast furnaces were built in Han China in the 1st century BC. However, cast iron artifacts found in China have been dated as early as the 5th century BC, so it is possible that ...

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Biysk (Russian: Бийск) is a city in Altai Krai of Russia. Located at 52°32′N 85°10′E With a population of more than 230,000 people, Biysk is the second largest city of the Krai (after Barnaul). Biysk - Geographical position. Biysk is situated in Southwestern Siberia, on the Biya (not far from its confluence with the Katun). The city is called "the gates to the Altai Mountains", because of its position comparatively not far from this range. In Biysk there is th ...

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1746 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1746 - Events. January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings August ...

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1762 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1762 - Events. Jean-Jacques Rousseau first publishes The Social Contract (Du Contrat Social).< ...

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1784 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1784 - Events. January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the ...

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Abraham Darby (c.1678 – March 8, 1717) was the first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. The son of John and Ann Darby, he was born at Wrens Nest, Woodsetton near Sedgley, Staffordshire; just across the county boundary from Dudley. Darby learnt his first metalworking trade in the Netherlands, and applied it at Bristol where he developed the use of moulds for casting iron and brass goods at the Baptist Mills Brass Works. Leaving Bristol in 1709, he became an ironma ...

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1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709 1700s - Events and trends. The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. The river eventually removes the blockage, but this event is remembered in the local legends of the Native Americans as the Bridge of the Gods. The first newspaper to be published in English. The Seven ...

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June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. June 16 - Events. 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, N ...

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1624 - Events. January 24 - Alfonso Mendez, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan. Thirty Walloon families settle in the New Netherland colony. Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by Christian IV, it would be renamed Christiania. Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda. Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres. B ...

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1625 - Events. March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. June 13 - Marriage of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra. June 15 - Breda surrenders to the Spanish troops of general Ambrogio de Spinola The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead. William Oughtred invents the slide rule. J ...

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1635 - Events. February 10 - The Académie française in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. April 13 – Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II executed in Constantinople May 30 - Peace of Prague (30 Years War) October 9 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. November 15 ...

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1658 - Events. January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne September 3 -Oliver Cromwell dies. His son Richard assumes his father's former position as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. The pea ...

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Port-Royal was a Cistercian convent in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. It was established in 1204, but became famous as an educational institution when its discipline was reformed in 1602 by its abbess Jacqueline Arnauld. The Arnauld family became its patrons and the convent's subsequent history was directed by a number of the holders of that name. In 1625 most of the nuns moved to a new Port-Royal in Paris, which subsequently became Port-Royal de Paris while the older one was known as Port-R ...

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1664 - Events. March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. August 1 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls. 1664 - Births. January 4 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742) ...

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Personal union - Antigua and Barbuda. Since 1981 upon obtaining independence as a Commonwealth Realm. In personal union sharing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with other Commonwealth Realms (formerly known as dominions). Personal union - Australia. Since 1986 upon the passage of the Australia Act which ended the requirement that amendments to Australia's constitution receive assent from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Shares El ...

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Peter, the son of Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia and his second wife, Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, was born in Moscow. Alexei I had previously married Maria Miloslavskaya, having five sons and eight daughters by her, although only two of the sons—Fyodor[2] and Ivan—were alive when Peter was born. Alexei I died in 1676, to be succeeded by ...

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