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1592
Apr 23
| 1592 • Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese but fails to break their supply lines to Busan. |
1595
Apr 23
Age: 3y
| 1595 • Sir Walter Ralegh travels up the Orinoco river in search of the fabled city of El Dorado. |
1615
Feb 13
Age: 22y
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marriageRichard Smith Sr. Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1615 • Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo), a Portuguese jesuit missionary introduces for the first time in China the telescope in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis). |
about
Age: 42y
1635
Age: 42y
| 1635 • Guadeloupe and Martinique are colonized by France. |
about
Age: 189y
1782
Age: 189y
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birth of childAbigail Smith New Jersey, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1782 • The British parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800. |
after
Oct 12
Age: 76y
1668
Oct 12
Age: 76y
deathHartford, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Both him and his wife are mentioned in John Winthrop the younger's medical journal as his patients. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1668 • Isaac Newton builds the first reflecting telescope[http://books.google.com/books?id=32IDpTdthm4C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=newton+reflecting+telescope++1668+letter+1669&source=bl&ots=PKABaGwPaN&sig=rPS8w23_nAp3kH5YMYGZ7JHhOaI&hl=en&ei=0QC1Svf7AsWb8Aa3nqGTDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=newton%20reflecting%20telescope%20%201668%20letter%201669&f=false Isaac Newton: adventurer in thought, by Alfred Rupert Hall, page 67] (Newton's reflector). |