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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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| 13 | 1667 | - 1667—1667: LITERATURE: Milton's Paradise Lost, widely considered the greatest epic poem in English..
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| 14 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: HISTORY: .Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 15 | 1670 | - 1670—1670: HISTORY: .Dom Perignon invents Champagne.
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| 16 | 1671 | - 1671—1671: HISTORY: .Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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| 17 | 1675 | - 1675—1675: HISTORY: Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch..
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| 18 | 1676 | - 1676—1676: HISTORY: .Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
- 1676—1676: WAR: King Philip's War.New England colonies vs Wampanoag, Narragansett and Nipmuck Indians.
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| 19 | 1679 | - 1679—1679: HISTORY: .Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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| 20 | 1680 | - 1680—1680: NATIVE AMERICAN: Puebloe Rebellion.Comanche obtain horses which changes their culture.
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| 21 | 1685 | - 1685—1685: ROYAL: .Charles II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue.
- 1685—1689: ROYAL: .James II. Ruler of England. House of Stuart (restored) - 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
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| 22 | 1687 | - 1687—1687: NATIVE AMERICAN: Sieur de La Salle Encounters Comanches near Trinity River..Comanches and Utes trade at Taos New Mexico.
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| 23 | 1689 | - 1689—1689: HISTORY: .Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia attempts to westernize nation and build Russia as a military power. Defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (1709). Beginning of the French and Indian Wars (to 1763), campaigns in America linked to a series of wars between France and England for domination of Europe.
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| 24 | 1690 | - 1690—1690: EPEDEMIC: Yellow Fever.New York
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| 25 | 1692 | - 1692—1692: NATIVE AMERICAN: Picuris relocate with Plains Apache in West Kansas..
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