1650
| 1650 • The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established (the first legal corporation in the Americas). |
1678
Age: 28y
| 1678 • The first part of English nonconformist preacher John Bunyan's Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress is published in London. |
1706
Nov 15
Age: 56y
| 1706 • Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia has abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia. |