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Hace 1 día · The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire amongst supporters of the claimant Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties.
Hace 2 días · The Thirty Years' War [j] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
Hace 5 días · James Crofts, later Scott (1649–1685), created Duke of Monmouth (1663) in England and Duke of Buccleuch (1663) in Scotland. Monmouth was born nine months after Walter and Charles II first met, and was acknowledged as his son by Charles II, but James II suggested that he was the son of another of her lovers, Colonel Robert Sidney, rather than Charles.
Hace 4 días · 1663: Friction machine: Invented by Otto von Guericke. 1668: First functional reflecting telescope constructed by Isaac Newton. 1679: Pressure-cooker: Invented by Denis Papin. 1680: Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine. 1698: Thomas Savery developes a steam-powered water pump: for draining mines
Hace 1 día · Algeria. The Regency of Algiers [a] ( Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized : Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, located on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830.
Hace 3 días · The Syro-Malabar Church descends from the Saint Thomas Christians who first aligned with the Catholic Church at Synod of Diamper and those who reunited with the Holy See under the leadership of Parambil Chandy during the period between 1655 and 1663.
Hace 5 días · Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings, they rely mainly on the analysis of written sources, observations of shaking objects and/or animal behavior during earthquakes and religious/traditional beliefs about earthquakes such as "God's punishment".
