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Hace 6 días · Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America. Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German ...
Hace 3 días · 1680: Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine. 1698: Thomas Savery developes a steam-powered water pump: for draining mines; 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s
Hace 6 días · Rizi's 1683 painting of the 1680 auto de fé, Plaza Mayor in Madrid. If the sentence was condemnatory, this implied that the condemned had to participate in the ceremony of an auto de fé (more commonly known in English as an auto-da-fé) that solemnized their return to the Church (in most cases), or punishment as an impenitent heretic.
Hace 1 día · The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the imperial government led the 13 colonies to begin uniting in 1774, and expelling British officials by 1775. Assembled at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, they appointed George ...
Hace 1 día · Maratha Confederacy. The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Kingdom, [6] [7] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent comprising the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states [8] [9] who were often subordinate to the former. It was formed in 1674 with the coronation ...
23 de may. de 2024 · The Huguenots ( / ˈhjuːɡənɒts / HEW-gə-nots, UK also /- noʊz / -nohz, French: [yɡ (ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed ( Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues (1491–1532), was ...
Hace 2 días · The Nine Years' War, [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa. Related conflicts include the Williamite war in Ireland, and King William's War in North America.
