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1660
| 1660 • Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France. |
1695
Age: 35y
| 1695 • After many years of construction, the Potala Palace in Lhasa is completed. |
1696
Jan 24
Age: 36y
birth of childJohann Jakob Beilstein Lützelbach, Hesse Germany ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1696 • King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, sign a peace treaty. |
1738
Jan 9
Age: 78y
| 1738 • Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles. |