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1673
Mar 4
| 1673 • Christopher Wren is knighted. |
1694
Apr 5
Age: 21y
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marriageHannah Starling Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1694 • The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea after it departs the Cape of Good Hope, but does not arrive at Batavia. |
1695
May 7
Age: 22y
| 1695 • English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth and silk weavers picket the House of Commons of England. |
1710
Age: 36y
residenceHaverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ Josiah Heath Jr. is listed in Haverhill, MA as as "one of the soldiers to be supplied with snow shoes to be prepared to protect the town from Indians." 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1710 • Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock. |
1717
May 16
Age: 44y
residenceHaverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ "Josiah Heath Junior of Haverhill for six pounds received of my Son in Law John Davis of the same place, sells him one and a half acres of land in Haverhill, bounded on Wm Whiticker, 16 May 1717; witnesses Hannah Heath, Benjamin Emerson" 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1717 • François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans who at the time was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;Jean-Michel Raynaud, Voltaire soi-disant, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983, vol.1, p.289 Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe. |