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2 days ago · Family law. Marriageable age, marriage age, or the age of marriage is the general age, a legal age or the minimum age subject to parental, religious or other forms of social approval, at which a person is legitimately allowed for marriage. Age and other prerequisites to marriage vary between jurisdictions, but in the vast majority of ...
5 days ago · The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History ...
1 day ago · In the 1660s, Newton had shown for planetary motion under a circular assumption, force in the radial direction had an inverse-square relation with distance from the centre. Newton, who in May 1686 was presented with Hooke's claim to priority on the inverse square law, denied he was to be credited as author of the idea, giving reasons including ...
4 days ago · Although much of what, culturally, seems to define the 1660s has powerful connections to the 1650s, it still seems as though what we think of as 'Restoration' culture took its rise from that event. So while the Restoration can hardly now be characterised as an absent chapter, it is the location of some enduring myths that an examination of a ...
5 days ago · House of Stuart. 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.
4 days ago · , 'March 1649: An Act for the abolishing the Kingly Office in England and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging.', in Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, (London, 1911) pp. 18-20.
4 days ago · Petitions in the State Papers, 1600-1699. This volume includes transcriptions of a sample of 387 petitions submitted to the monarch and other authorities, preserved in the State Papers at The National Archives. English Petitions. Originally published by , , . This free content was born digital.
