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Hace 4 días · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Hace 2 días · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
Hace 3 días · Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, neither of his marriages produced children, and he died without a direct heir.
Hace 6 días · François Roberday (21 March 1624 – 13 October 1680) was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin , Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices , a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ pieces.
Hace 2 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 3 días · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
Hace 2 días · Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution . The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV ), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died ...
