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Hace 4 días · The Battle of Lagos, June 1693. French victory and the capture of the Smyrna convoy was the most significant English mercantile loss of the war. When news of the European war reached Asia, English, French and Dutch colonial governors and merchants quickly took up the struggle.
Hace 3 días · Proposals made by four of the Chief Sachems to Governor Fletcher on 26 February, 1693. One of our men while drunk yesterday killed an Indian deserted from the French. Pray prohibit the sale of rum while the war lasts.
Hace 3 días · As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to slaves from British colonies, and the Spanish Crown officially proclaimed in 1693 that runaway slaves would find freedom in Florida in return for converting to Catholicism and four years of military service to the Spanish Crown.
Hace 2 días · Early life Main article: Early life of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before. Born prematurely, Newton was a small ...
Hace 5 días · Johann Sebastian started school in 1692 or 1693 and did well in spite of frequent absences. Of his musical education at this time, nothing definite is known; however, he may have picked up the rudiments of string playing from his father, and no doubt he attended the Georgenkirche, where Johann Christoph Bach was organist until 1703.
Hace 4 días · Romanov dynasty, rulers of Russia from 1613 until the Russian Revolution of February 1917. Among notable Romanov rulers were Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725), Catherine the Great (1762–96), and Nicholas II (1894–1917), the last Romanov emperor, who was killed by revolutionaries soon after abdicating the throne.
Hace 1 día · John Harrison, one of the most famous of English clockmakers, was born in 1693 near Pontefract in Yorkshire. For several years he followed his father's trade as a carpenter, and, having a great taste for mechanical pursuits, gave much of his attention to the improvement of clocks and watches.
