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Date |
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| 1 | 1634 | - 1634—1638: WAR: Pequot War .An armed conflict between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies
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| 2 | 1636 | - 1636—1636: HISTORY: .W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 3 | 1642 | - 1642—1642: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 4 | 1643 | - 1643—1643: HISTORY: .Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 5 | 1649 | - 1649—30 Jan 1649: ROYAL: .Charles I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Only surviving son of James I beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
- 1649—1658: ROYAL: .Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 6 | 1650 | - 1650—1650: HISTORY: .Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 7 | 1656 | - 1656—1656: HISTORY: .Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 8 | 1657 | - 1657—1657: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
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| 9 | 1658 | - 1658—25 May 1659: ROYAL: .Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Proctorate - 3rd son of Oliver.
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| 10 | 1660 | - 1660—1660: HISTORY: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region..
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| 11 | 1661 | - 1661—1661: ROYAL: Charles II is crowned King of England.
- 1661—1661: ROYAL: Louis XIV begins personal rule as absolute monarch; starts to build Versailles.
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| 12 | 1663 | - 1663—1663: HISTORY: .James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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1630 - 1666 (36 years)
