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| 1 | 1603 | - 1603—1625: ROYAL: .James I. Ruler of England. House of Stuart - Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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| 2 | 1608 | - 1608—1608: HISTORY: .Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 3 | 1611 | - 1611—1611: HISTORY: Galileo exhibits the wonders of the telescope to the pontifical court. .He tries to produce scriptural confirmation of the view that the earth revolves around the sun, but he is rebuffed.
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| 4 | 1617 | - 1617—1617: HISTORY: Cigars & Cigarettes are born..Ships carrying 50,000 pounds of cured tobacco annually from Virginia to England. Smoking has become a fad in England, with King James describing it as loathsome
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| 5 | 1620 | - 1620—1620: HISTORY: .Earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 6 | 1624 | - 1624—1624: HISTORY: .William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 7 | 1625 | - 1625—1625: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
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| 8 | 1629 | - 1629—1629: HISTORY: .Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1636 | - 1636—1636: HISTORY: .W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 11 | 1642 | - 1642—1642: HISTORY: .Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 12 | 1643 | - 1643—1643: HISTORY: .Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 1650 | - 1650—1650: HISTORY: .Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 15 | 1656 | - 1656—1656: HISTORY: .Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 16 | 1657 | - 1657—1657: EPEDEMIC: Measles - Boston.
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| 17 | 1658 | - 1658—25 May 1659: ROYAL: .Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England. Commonwealth & Proctorate - 3rd son of Oliver.
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| 18 | 1660 | - 1660—1660: HISTORY: Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region..
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 1663 | - 1663—1663: HISTORY: .James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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| 21 | 1667 | - 1667—1667: LITERATURE: Milton's Paradise Lost, widely considered the greatest epic poem in English..
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| 22 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: HISTORY: .Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 23 | 1670 | - 1670—1670: HISTORY: .Dom Perignon invents Champagne.
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| 24 | 1671 | - 1671—1671: HISTORY: .Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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