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May 25, 2024 · Charles II (born May 29, 1630, London—died February 6, 1685, London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1660–85), who was restored to the throne after years of exile during the Puritan Commonwealth. The years of his reign are known in English history as the Restoration period.
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Charles I (born November 19, 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Fife,...
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Charles II, (born May 29, 1630, London, Eng.—died Feb. 6,...
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May 27, 2024 · Galileo (born February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy]—died January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence) was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His formulation of (circular) inertia ...
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1 day ago · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
4 days ago · The Restoration: England in the 1660s. Oxford, Blackwell, 2002, ISBN: 631195742X; 288pp.; Price: £55.00. Ronald Hutton begins his account of the Restoration, The Restoration: a Political and Religious History of England and Wales (Clarendon; Oxford, 1985) by contrasting the attention historians had paid to the English Civil War with the ...
6 days ago · 1648–1660: Poland lost an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and plague [citation needed] Poland: 1649: Famine in northern England : England: 1650–1652: Famine in the east of France : France: 1651–1653: Famine throughout much of Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Ireland: 1661
May 31, 2024 · Anarâškielâ; العربية; Basa Bali; বাংলা; Basa Banyumasan; Català; Čeština; الدارجة; Eesti; فارسی; Furlan; Gaeilge; Galego; Ilokano ...
4 days ago · The Palace of Versailles ( / vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d (ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France . The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been ...
