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12 hours ago · 14th century A detail of the Salisbury Cathedral clock, showing the verge and foliot. The invention of the verge and foliot escapement in c.1275 was one of the most important inventions in both the history of the clock and the history of technology. It was the first type of regulator in horology.
12 hours ago · 14th century: Jacob's staff described by Levi ben Gerson; 14th century: Naval mine in Ming dynasty China: Mentioned in the Huolongjing military manuscript written by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 15th century) and Liu Bowen (1311–1375), describing naval mines used at sea or on rivers and lakes, made of wrought iron and enclosed in an ox bladder.
12 hours ago · The Republic of Venice ( Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, [a] traditionally known as La Serenissima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of the present-day Italian Republic that existed for 1,100 years from 697 until 1797. [2]
12 hours ago · The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, [5] succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, [6] when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania. The state was founded by Lithuanians, who were at the time a polytheistic nation ...
12 hours ago · 8th century to present day. Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb ). [1] [2] Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural ...
- 8th century to present day
12 hours ago · This article is a list of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents. The Indian subcontinent, the main centre of Indian culture The earliest Indian rulers are known from epigraphical sources found in archeological inscriptions on Ashokan edicts written in Pali language and using brahmi script. They are also known ...
12 hours ago · From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers. On 6 February 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between representatives of the United Kingdom and various Māori chiefs, initially at Waitangi and over the following weeks at other locations across the country.
