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EVENT |
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MY
BOOKS |
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1440 |
Mainz,
Johannes Gutenberg created a printing press of moveable
type. |
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~ French
Manuscript |
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1466 |
a)
Sculptor Donatello dies.
b) Leonardo da Vinci in Florence. |
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~ Letters
of St. Jerome (other) |
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1487 |
Columbus
before the Council of Salamanca |
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~The
Brescia Dante(other) |
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1546 |
Martin
Luther dies. |
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~Noctes
Atticae
~Bellius 1546 (mosellani 1542) (other) |
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1565 |
Spanish
Trading Ships start sailing the Pacific. |
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~ Edippo
Aguillaro 1565(other) |
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1604 |
Wm.
Shakespeare writes "Measure for Measure". |
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~ Senaca
Lucius Annaeus (other) |
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1607 |
Jamestown
Landing |
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~ Busti
Bernardinus 1607 (other) |
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1630 |
Ship "Mary and John" sails from Plymouth, England. |
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~Russia-Travel
1630 (other)
~Russia - 1st Page |
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1704 |
John
Locke, Philosopher of Freedom dies. |
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~ Cardinal
Capucin Richard, Rene 1704 |
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1721 |
Great
Northern War (Sweden and Denmark - Norway) ends. |
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~Bradley,
Works of Nature (my first color plate book) |
| 1731 |
Library
Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin. |
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1766 |
An
unknown Englishman first serves mustard in its
moistened form. It had previously been served dry
and shaken from pierced containers called mustard
casters. |
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~Flora
Danica, 1764-1792 |
1775-
1783 |
The
American Revolution. |
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~Illustrations
of Zoology, 1776 |
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1778 |
German
composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, age 8,
is presented by his father as a 6-year-old music
prodigy. |
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1784 |
Benjamin
Franklin invents bifocal lenses. |
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1785 |
French
aeronaut Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard
invents the parachute and survives the first jump. |
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~History
of British Ferns, 1785 |
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1791 |
The
waltz becomes fashionable in England. |
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~ Portraits
de deputes (Guerin and Fiesinger),1789 |
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1793 |
American
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. |
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~Views
of River Medway,1793 |
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1795 |
Congregation Rodeph Shalom founded in Philadelphia. |
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~History
of British Birds (Donovan), 1795 |
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1796 |
Edward
Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccine. |
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~ A
Complete view of the Dress & Habitats of the People
in England |
1805-
1806 |
Americans
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
head west, exploring the region known as the Louisiana
Purchase. |
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~Costumes
of Russian Empire, 1804
~Mayer's Views of Palestine, 1804
~Stranger in Ireland,1806 |
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1811 |
English
novelist Jane Austen publishes Sense and Sensibility.
Massachusetts General Hospital is established in Boston. |
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~Voyage
to India by Way of China,1810. |
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1812 |
War
with Great Britain. |
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~History
of Westminster Abbey, 1812.
~The Peoples of Russia, 1812. |
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1832 |
100th
anniversary of George Washington's birth
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~Rural
Residences 1832 (Papworth) |
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