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1690
Aug 19
| 1690 • French physicist Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a reciprocating steam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient. |
1723
Nov 20
Age: 33y
| 1723 • Mapuche Uprising of 1723 begins in Chile. |
1735
Jul 16
Age: 44y
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birth of childJohn Munselle Lyme, New London, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1735 • Leonhard Euler solves the Basel problem, first posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1644, and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem. |
1776
Jan 9
Age: 85y
| 1776 • Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe on an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.Saunt, Claudio (2014). West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, p. 95. W. W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 9780393240207. |