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The Right Honourable Sir Cyril Wyche, FRS , DCL , MA , BA (1632 - ?1707) was an English lawyer and politician. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt. ...
A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...
The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. ...
A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ...
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Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ...
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He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford with Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts (MA) in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 1665. Between the time he received his MA and his DCL, he was knighted (1660). This is so close in time to the English Restoration that he was almost certainly a Cavalier, and may have served in the military for the Royalist cause. Jump to: navigation, search Map of Constantinople. ...
Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...
Jump to: navigation, search A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ...
Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ...
A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ...
Events New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces. ...
Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...
Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ...
The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ...
The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ...
He was an original member of the Royal Society and served as President from 1683-1684. He joined the bar in 1670 and became the Secretary to the Lieutenancy of Ireland in 1692. He was a Member of Parliament for several districts at different times, (MP for Callington, Cornwall (1661-1678), for East Grinstead (1681), for Saltash (1685-1687), and for Preston (1702-1705) From the Sackler Archive of Fellows of the Royal Society. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ...
The President of the Royal Society (PRS) is the elected head of the Royal Society of London. ...
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. ...
1670 was a common year beginning on a Saturday in countries using the Julian calendar and a Wednesday in countries using the Gregorian calendar. ...
Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ...
An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ...
Callington, is a town in southeast Cornwall, UK, in the Caradon District. ...
Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ...
Events August 10 - Treaty of Nijmegen ends the Dutch War. ...
East Grinstead is a town in the north-eastern corner of West Sussex in the UK near the East Sussex, Surrey and Kent borders, and only a few miles from Ashdown Forest. ...
Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ...
Saltash is a town in Cornwall, England. ...
Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ...
Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ...
Preston is a city and local government district in North West England. ...
Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ...
Events Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. ...
He married Mary, daughter of George Evelyn of Wootton and niece of John Evelyn, the diarist. Around 1690 he purchased Hockwold Hall (then called The Poynings) at Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk. He died there and a monument to him can be found in the church of St. Peter in Hockwold. John Evelyn (October 31, 1620 â February 27, 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. ...
Events Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiters atmosphere. ...
For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ...
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