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1665
| 1665 • The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584. |
1686
Age: 21y
| 1686 • The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from Ottoman Turkish rule (leading to the end of Turkish rule in Hungary during the subsequent years). |
1700
May 13
Age: 35y
birth of childPeter Chapman New London, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1700 • William Penn begins monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation. |
1758
Nov 2
Age: 93y
| 1758 • Carolus Linnaeus publishes the first volume (Animalia) of the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature. |