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3 days ago · At Ratisbon in 1684, France had been in a position to impose its will on Europe; however, after 1685, its dominant military and diplomatic position began to deteriorate. One of the main factors for the diminution was Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which caused the dispersal of France's Protestant community.
2 days ago · Robert Hooke. Robert Hooke FRS ( / hʊk /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [4] [a] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [5] He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound ...
5 days ago · America and West Indies: February 1684. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 11, 1681-1685. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
2 days ago · Delaware: Ryves Holt House, Lewes, AD 1665. With its red exterior and green roof, Ryves Holt House looks like something out of a children’s book. Built in 1665, it’s reportedly the oldest ...
5 days ago · The spread of the Black Death in Europe, North Africa and the Near East (1346–1353) (Source: Wikipedia) The plague made its way into Europe through the busy trading ports of the Mediterranean. In 1347, it arrived in Sicily aboard Genoese merchant ships that fled a plague-ridden Crimea city.
3 days ago · List of wars involving Greece. This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other Greek colonies ( First Greek colonisation, Second Greek colonisation, Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria ...
9 hours ago · An actor best known for roles in “Mean Girls,” “Rebel Moon” and “Babylon” has been arrested and charged for allegedly stabbing his estranged girlfriend multiple times.
