♂ Edward Higbee II

1652 - 1717

Edward Higbee II
Parents
Edward Higby
Edward Higby
1615 - 1699
Jedidiah Skidmore
Jedidiah Skidmore
1624 - 1660
Spouse
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
1660 - 1692
Children

1684


Mar 29
Age: 32y
1684 Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people.

1685


Age: 33y
1685 • The Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester; over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels tried and condemned to death or transportation.

1717


Age: 65y
1717 • François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans who at the time was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;Jean-Michel Raynaud, Voltaire soi-disant, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983, vol.1, p.289 Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe.

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