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Hace 5 días · Louis provided support in the 1665-1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War but used the opportunity to launch the War of Devolution in 1667. This captured Franche-Comté and much of the Spanish Netherlands; French expansion in this area was a direct threat to Dutch economic interests.
Hace 4 días · Taipei 101 ( Chinese : 台北101; pinyin : Táiběi 101; stylized in all caps ), [1] formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. It is owned by Taipei Financial Center Corporation. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest from its opening on 31 December 2004 (in time to celebrate ...
20 de may. de 2024 · Louis XIV (born September 5, 1638, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France—died September 1, 1715, Versailles, France) was the king of France (1643–1715) who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age.
- Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715), ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of the country’s most brillia...
- Louis XIV succeeded his father as king of France on May 14, 1643, at the age of four years eight months. According to the laws of the kingdom, he b...
- Louis XIV died in 1715, four days shy of his 77th birthday, from gangrene associated with an infection in his leg.
Hace 1 día · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
22 de may. de 2024 · Jonathan Swift (born November 30, 1667, Dublin, Ireland—died October 19, 1745, Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish author, who was the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and “A Modest Proposal” (1729).
- Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author who is regarded as one of the foremost prose satirists in the history of English literature. He wrote essa...
- Jonathan Swift’s father, Jonathan Swift the elder, was an Englishman who had settled in Ireland after the Stuart Restoration and become steward of...
- Jonathan Swift is best known for Gulliver’s Travels, which is a parody of a travel narrative. Published in 1726, it mocks English customs and the p...
Hace 4 días · This depiction of a sugar plantation in Saint Domingue emphasizes the grinding mill and refining vats. An overseer with a gun supervises the enslaved labor. By 1789 Saint Domingue excelled at sugar production, outpacing other French colonies and the British alike. Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, The Sugar Mill, 1667-1671, Bibliothèque Nationale de ...
Francois Bernier, "Sati: Letter," 1667, Children and Youth in History. Text Letter to Monsieur Chapelain, Despatched from Chiras in Persia, the 4th October 1667.
