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Hace 3 días · Timeline of the gunpowder age. This is a timeline of the history of gunpowder and related topics such as weapons, warfare, and industrial applications. The timeline covers the history of gunpowder from the first hints of its origin as a Taoist alchemical product in China until its replacement by smokeless powder in the late 19th century (from ...
Hace 2 días · Dutch military power was at its height in the middle of the 17th century and in that era the Dutch navy was the most powerful navy in the world. [38] By the middle of the 17th century, the Dutch had overtaken Portugal as the dominant player in the spice and silk trade, and in 1652 founded a colony at Cape Town on the coast of South Africa, as a way-station for its ships on the route between ...
Hace 6 días · 17th century Relief of Genoa, 1625 Battle of Rocroi, 1641 Morning after the Assault on Copenhagen, 1659 Four Days Battle, 1666 Louis XIV crosses the Rhine at Lobith, during the Franco-Dutch War, 1672 Siege of Buda, 1686 Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue, 1692. 1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War; 1601 Battle of Guruslău; 1602 Savoyard escalade of ...
Hace 1 hora · 17th Century. 1669 - In his book De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento Nicolas Steno asserted that, although the number and size of crystal faces may vary from one crystal to another, the angles between corresponding faces are always the same. This was the original statement of the first law of crystallography (Steno's law).
Hace 4 días · By the early 17th century the number of plants described in Europe had risen to about 6000. The 18th century Enlightenment values of reason and science coupled with new voyages to distant lands instigating another phase of encyclopaedic plant identification, nomenclature, description and illustration, "flower painting" possibly at its best in this period of history.
Hace 5 días · The overwhelming majority of Southern Irish were Protestant, as there were only 60,000 Catholics in the United States in 1790, 1.6% of the population. Many U.S. Catholics were descendants of English Catholic settlers in the 17th century, and the rest were Irish, German and some Acadians who remained.
2 de may. de 2024 · The next major improvement in clock building, from the 17th century, was the discovery that clocks could be controlled by harmonic oscillators. Leonardo da Vinci had produced the earliest known drawings of a pendulum in 1493–1494, and in 1582 Galileo Galilei had investigated the regular swing of the pendulum, discovering that frequency was only dependent on length, not weight.
