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1664
Aug 13
| 1664 • Battle of Saint Gotthard: The Ottoman Empire is defeated by an Habsburg army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. |
1688
Jan 2
Age: 23y
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marriageJudith Woodberry Beverly, Massachussetts, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1688 • A group of 1,500 Old Believers immolate themselves to avoid capture when troops of the tsar lay siege to their monastery on Lake Onega. |
1694
Age: 29y
1699
Dec 11
Age: 35y
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birth of childJerusha Herrick Preston, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1699 • Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by Act of Parliament. |
1706
Jun 9
Age: 41y
| 1706 • English Parliament establishes the first turnpike trusts which place a length of road under the control of trustees drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years. |