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1720
birthFredericksburg, Virginia, USA ⇓ This is an estimate based on births of children. |
| 1720 • Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels. |
1737
Age: 17y
marriageJohn Bourne Jr. 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1737 • Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war. |
1765
Sep
Age: 45y
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birth of childCatherine Bourne Virginia, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1765 • Russian Empress Catherine II issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka (by freezing). |
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Age: 92y
1812
Age: 92y
| 1812 • Napoleon authorizes the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the Metric System. |