These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ...
Significant Events and Trends World Leaders King Frederick III of Denmark (1648 - 1670). ...
Events and Trends Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669. ...
Events and Trends Newton and Leibniz independently discover calculus. ...
Events and Trends Thomas Neale designed Seven Dials The Salem Witchcraft Trials are held in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1692). ...
Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ...
Events and Trends World Leaders King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715) Philippe II of Orléans, Regent of France (1715 - 1723). ...
Events First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there. ...
Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ...
Events March 11 â Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. ...
Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ...
Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ...
Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ...
Events The League of Augsburg is founded. ...
Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ...
// Events A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the Immortal Seven, invite William and Mary to depose James II of England. ...
Events Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir, allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies. ...
Events and Trends Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification - by Athelstan AD927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi - Water (%) Population...
Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ...
Buccaneer is a term that was used in the later 17th century in the Caribbean Islands. ...
Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 â 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 â 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians in history. ...
Newtons own copy of his Principia, with hand written corrections for the second edition. ...
Newtons Laws of Motion are laws which provide relationships between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body, first formulated by Isaac Newton. ...
Gravity is a force of attraction that acts between bodies that have mass. ...
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange). ...
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