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Biography of William III of England (excerpt)
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was the Prince of Orange from his birth, Stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic from 28 June 1672, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots (under the name William II) from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. ![]()
Biography of Jean Renaud de Segrais (excerpt)
Jean Renaud de Segrais (August 22, 1624 - March 15, 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. In 1662, he was elected a member of the Académie française. Works (selection) Poetry Ode ŕ M. Chapelain, about the victories of Mgr le duc d'Anguien (1647) ![]()
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Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about 11,401 km2 (4,402 sq mi). Located at the east center of the state, the city is the center of the Manaus metropolitan area and the largest metropolitan area in the North Region of Brazil by urban landmass. ![]()
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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666 (the source for the time come from the website historyinnumbers.com). The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. ![]()
Biography of Barbara Palmer (excerpt)
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (May 22 1641 – October 9, 1709) was a British courtesan and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of Charles II of England. Early life Born Barbara Villiers at the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, she was the only child of the 2nd Viscount Grandison, William Villiers (a half-nephew of the 1st Duke of Buckingham), and his wife, Mary Bayning, heiress of the 1st Viscount Bayning. ![]()
Biography of Nell Gwyn (excerpt)
Nell Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), born Eleanor, 2 February (12 February Gregorian calendar) 1650 - 14 November 1687), was one of the earliest English actresses to receive prominent recognition, and a long-time mistress of King Charles II. Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys, she has been called a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration England and has come to be considered a folk heroine, with a story echoing the rags-to-royalty tale of Cinderella. ![]()
Biography of Mary of Modena (excerpt)
Mary of Modena (Mary Beatrice Eleanor Anne Margaret Isabel; born Este; later Queen Mary of England, Scotland and Ireland; 5 October 1658 – 7 May 1718) was queen consort to James II of England. Early life She was a daughter of Alfonso IV, Duke of Modena and his wife, the former Laura Martinozzi. ![]()
Biography of William Penn (excerpt)
William Penn (October 14, 1644 (October 24, Gregorian calendar) – July 30, 1718) was founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his treaty with the Lenape Indians. ![]()
Biography of John Churchill (excerpt)
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough KG (26 May/5 June 1650 – 16 June 1722) (O.S), was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His rise to prominence began as a lowly page in the royal court of Stuart England, but his natural courage on the field of battle soon ensured quick promotion and recognition from his master and mentor James, Duke of York. ![]()
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It has an economy with large tourism, financial and commercial sectors. The river Aire flows through the city. Leeds was a small manorial borough in the 13th century, becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries, then a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important. ![]()
Biography of Cotton Mather (excerpt)
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 (February 22, Gregorian calendar) – February 13, 1728). A.B. 1678 (Harvard College), A.M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather. ![]()
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Waterbury (nicknamed "The Brass City") is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles (53 km) southwest of Hartford and 77 miles (124 km) northeast of New York City. Waterbury is the second-largest city in New Haven County, Connecticut. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Pepys (excerpt)
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (23 February (5 March, Gregorian calendar) 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. ![]()
Biography of John Gadbury (excerpt)
John Gadbury (January 10, 1628–1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or disciple, and a defender in the 1650s, of William Lilly, he eventually turned against Lilly and denounced him in 1675 as fraudulent.
Biography of Charles XI of Sweden (excerpt)
Charles XI (Swedish: Karl XI) (24 November 1655 (4 December, Gregrorian calendar) – 5 April 1697) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death and during the same time succeeded his father as Pfalzgraf. He was the only son of King Charles X of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp. ![]()
Biography of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (excerpt)
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (January 16, 1675 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – March 2, 1755), French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs, was born at Versailles. The dukedom-peerage granted to his father, Claude de Saint-Simon (1608-1693), is a central fact in his history. ![]()
Biography of John Aubrey (excerpt)
John Aubrey (March 12 (March 22, Gregorian calendar), 1626–June 7, 1697) was an English antiquary and writer, best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives and as the discoverer of the Aubrey holes in Stonehenge. ![]()
Biography of Richard Cromwell (excerpt)
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 (14 October, Gregorian calendar) – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659. ![]()
Biography of John Dryden (excerpt)
John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
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Biography of Princess Henrietta of England (excerpt)
Henrietta Anne of England, Duchess of Orléans (16 June Old Style 26 June New Style, 1644 – 30 June, 1670), in French Henriette d'Angleterre, known familiarly as Minette, was the youngest daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. ![]()
Biography of George I of Great Britain (excerpt)
George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 (June 7, Gregorian calendar) – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698. ![]()
Biography of John Flamsteed (excerpt)
John Flamsteed FRS (19 August (29 August, Gregorian calendar) 1646 - 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. Life and work Flamsteed was born in Denby Dale, England, and was educated at Derby School, in St Peter's Churchyard, Derby, near where his father carried on a malting business. ![]()
Biography of Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (excerpt)
Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Legitimé de France (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 – Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was the eldest legitimised son of the Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. He was given the title Duke of Maine.
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Biography of William Petty (excerpt)
Sir William Petty (May 26 (June 5, Gregorian calendar), 1623 – December 16, 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. ![]()
Biography of Frances Stewart (excerpt)
Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July (18 July, Gregorian calendar) 1647 – 15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia. ![]()
Biography of Grinling Gibbons (excerpt)
Master wood carver Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 (14 April, Gregorian calendar) - 3 August 1721) was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and moved to England in about 1667. Gibbons was an extremely talented wood carver; indeed, some have said he was the finest of all time. ![]()
Biography of Henry Coley (excerpt)
Henry Coley, born October 18 (October 28, Gregorian calendar), 1633 and died in 1695, was a British mathematician, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (excerpt)
James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, born July 22, 1663 in London and died June 20, 1667 at 4, was the son of the Duke of York and his wife Anne of Hyde. ![]()
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Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. At the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston. The town center is near where the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers forms the Concord River. ![]()
Biography of Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias (excerpt)
Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias (Spanish: Felipe Próspero José Francisco Domingo Ignacio Antonio Buenaventura Diego Miguel Luis Alfonso Isidro Ramón Víctor, English: Philip Prosper Joseph Francis Dominic Igancio Anthony Buenaventura Diego Michael Louis Alfonso Isidor Ramon Victor, German: Philipp Prosper Joseph Franz Dominic Ignacio Anton Buenaventura Diego Michael Ludwig Alfons Isidor Ramon Viktor; November 28, 1657 (gregorian calendar) – November 1, 1661) was the first male child of the marriage between Philip IV of Spain and Mariana of Austria to survive infancy. ![]()
Biography of Catherine of Braganza (excerpt)
Catherine of Braganza (Portuguese: Catarina de Bragança; 25 November 1638 – 31 December 1705) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland during her marriage to King Charles II, which lasted from 21 May 1662 until his death on 6 February 1685. ![]()
Biography of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (excerpt)
Philippe, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 (The source for his birth time comes from the book written by Elisabetta Lurgo: "Philippe d'Orléans. Brother of Louis XIV, page 13. Source verified) – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. ![]()
Biography of Herman Boerhaave (excerpt)
Herman Boerhaave (Dutch: , 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738) was a Dutch botanist, Christian humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology," along with his pupil Albrecht von Haller.
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Biography of Joseph Addison (excerpt)
Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
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Biography of Claudine Guérin de Tencin (excerpt)
Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749), was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.
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Biography of Hyacinthe Rigaud (excerpt)
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Since Rigaud's paintings captured very exact likenesses along with the subject's costumes and background details, his paintings are considered precise records of contemporary fashions.
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Biography of Bernard Mandeville (excerpt)
Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works.
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Biography of Maria Margaretha Kirch (excerpt)
Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer. She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively.
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Biography of Catherine Duchemin (excerpt)
Catherine Duchemin (12 November 1630 – 21 September 1698) was a French flower and fruit painter. She was born in Paris as the daughter of the sculptor Jaques Duchemin and Elizabeth Hubault. She married the sculptor Girardon in 1657, and 14 April 1663 was received into the Academy as the first lady on whom this honour had been conferred.
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Biography of Luisa Roldán (excerpt)
Luisa Ignacia Roldán (8 September 1652 – 10 January 1706), known also as La Roldana, was a Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era. She is the earliest woman sculptor documented in Spain. Roldán is recognized in the Hispanic Society Museum for being "one of the few women artists to have maintained a studio outside the convents in Golden Age Spain". ![]()
Biography of Pu Songling (excerpt)
Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi). His time of birth comes from the biography "Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in Pʻu Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715" by Chun-shu Chang and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang.
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Biography of Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois (excerpt)
Philippe Charles d'Orléans, petit-fils de France, Duke of Valois (16 July 1664 – 8 December 1666) was a French prince and Grandson of France. He was styled Duke of Valois at the time of his birth. He was a short lived nephew of Louis XIV.
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Biography of Humfrey Wanley (excerpt)
Humfrey Wanley was an English librarian and paleographer born on March 21, 1672 (March 31, gregorian calendar), in Coventry, and died on July 6, 1726, in London. The youngest child of Nathaniel Wanley, vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, Wanley developed an early interest in Old English.
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Biography of Erhard Weigel (excerpt)
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 (26 December Gregorian calendar) – 20 March 1699 (30 March Gregorian calendar)) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His time of birth comes from the book "Erhard Weigel, 1625 bis 1699" by Reinhard Schielicke (H.
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Biography of Marek Sobieski (1628) (excerpt)
Marek Sobieski (24 May 1628 – 3 June 1652) was a Polish nobleman, starosta (tenant of the Crown lands) of Krasnystaw and Jaworów, and the older brother of King John III Sobieski of Poland. He graduated from Nowodworek College in Kraków and Kraków Academy, then traveled and studied in Western Europe.
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Biography of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.
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Biography of Karolina of Legnica-Brieg (excerpt)
Karolina of Legnica-Brieg-Wohlau (German: Charlotte von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau, Polish: Karolina Piastówna; 2 December 1652 in Brzeg – 24 December 1707 in Wrocław), was a Silesian noble, duchess of Legnica, Brzeg and Wołów and the last member of the Silesian Piasts dynasty. Her time of birth comes from the biography "L'Allemagne dynastique: Oldenbourg, Familles alliées H-L" (A. |
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