Christiaan Huygens experimented with gunpowder in 1673 in an early attempt to build an internal combustion engine, but he did not succeed.

As early as 1673, Louis had by his own power extended the right of the régale over the provinces of Languedoc, Guyenne, Provence, and Dauphiné, where it had previously not been exercised.

The two groups, consisting of fifteen families ( about fifty people ), arrived in Ancient Woodbury, known as “ Pomperaug Plantation, early in 1673.

In 1672 the Netherlands were invaded by the French army and in early 1673, the castle was deliberately burned down as a punishment for non-payment of taxes levied by the French.

The default prompted the goldsmith bankers of London to cease all further credit to the crown, forcing Charles II to finally call parliament again in early 1673 for its 10th Session to plead for funds.

The first documented exploration of the Wisconsin River by Europeans took place in 1673, when Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet of France canoed from Lake Michigan up the Fox River until reaching the present-day site of Portage in early June.

An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn ( Siege of Grave, 1673 < ref >

Leonardos Philaras ( c. 1595 – 1673 ) was a Greek people | Greek scholar born in Athens in 1595, he was an early supporter of Greek liberation, he spent much of his career in persuading Western European intellectuals to support Greek Independence.

After the early death of a son, De Graaf died in 1673 at age 32 and was buried in the Oude Kerk in Delft.

Nicola Francesco Leonardo Grimaldi ( 5 April 1673 ( bap ) – 1 January 1732 ) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato who is best remembered today for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in two of whose early operas he sang.

Therefore during the battles mutual suspicion between the French and the English was enormous: the English were wary that De Ruyter might suddenly team up with the French ; the French thought the Orangist Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp, readmitted to the Dutch fleet early in 1673, might well do the same with the English.

Other early European soft-paste porcelain, also a frit porcelain, was produced at the Rouen manufactory in 1673, which was known for this reason as " Porcelaine française ".

Belsham's beliefs reflect that transition that the Unitarian movement was going through during his lifetime, particularly from the early Bible-fundamentalist views of earlier English Unitarians like Henry Hedworth ( who introduced the word " Unitarian " into print in English from Dutch sources in 1673 ) and John Biddle, to the more Bible-critical positions of Priestley's generation.

By his first wife he had ( besides a daughter Judith, wife to William Bladwell, a London merchant ) a son, John, captain in the king's army, who inherited his father's Horsham property, and died there early in 1673.

These cut-down plants will bud and blossom in record time and will behave just as they did in early spring.

In fact, we had one birth before the end of the course, and another student had to take the final examiantion a week early, just to be on the safe side.

For example, early in my life, when one of my editorial workers wanted to find out how churches and philanthropic organizations met the needs of New York's down-and-outers, he didn't just ask questions.

Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.

Theodosius had just been baptized, by bishop Acholius of Thessalonica, during a severe illness, as was common in the early Christian world.

At that time, early LAN systems were just coming to market, including Ethernet, Token Ring and ARCNET.

In the years just after the war, Roma were unable to recapture their league stature from the early 1940s.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation or just inflation is the theorized extremely rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 10 < sup > 78 </ sup > in volume, driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, the Xia and the Shang can possibly refer to political entities that existed concurrently, just as the early Zhou is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang.

It was influenced not just by name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him " strikeout Casey ".

It celebrates the illumination of the medium-sized trees lining College Walk in front of Kent and Hamilton Halls on the east end and Dodge and Journalism Halls on the west, just before finals week in early December.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

The Antiquity of Man ( published in early February 1863, just before Huxley's Man's place in nature ) drew these comments from Darwin to Huxley:

Although it looked like Parton's career had been revived, it was actually just a brief revival before contemporary country music came in the early 1990s and moved all veteran artists out of the charts.

It is possible that the Maccabean Martyrs were commemorated in some early French plays or that people just associated the book ’ s vivid descriptions of the martyrdom with the interaction between Death and its prey.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, EVM emerged as a project management methodology to be understood and used by managers and executives, not just EVM specialists.

Most notably, in Round 15 against, the Bombers jumped the Saints early by kicking the first 16 points of the match and led for the majority of the match, only to lose the lead by halfway through the final quarter, and ultimately the match by just three points.

West Germany took the lead through Helmut Haller early on, but six minutes later Moore was fouled just inside the German half of the field.

The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

Evidence for the early appearance of galaxies was found in 2006, when it was discovered that the galaxy IOK-1 has an unusually high redshift of 6. 96, corresponding to just 750 million years after the Big Bang and making it the most distant and primordial galaxy yet seen.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

In the early months of 1714, the battle between Swift and Steele over the issue of the Succession entered its major phase.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

As I have indicated above, I base this feeling on a belief that current weakness in the market for consumer durable goods may continue through the early months of the year, but will give way to a sufficiently strong recovery later on to bring the full-year figures close to those of 1960 ; ;

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

In the first two months of 1961, earnings of the Illinois highway available for interest payments were up 55 per cent from early 1960.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Temperatures remain relatively high throughout the year, with the summer months of April to early July having an average daily temperature of about 30 ° C ( 86 ° F ).

Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.

The Black and Tans were not subject to strict discipline in their early months in Ireland and as a result, their deaths at the hands of the IRA in 1920 were often repaid with arbitrary reprisals against the civilian population.

The early months passed without notable event, beyond some successes of Agrippa on the coasts of Greece, meant to divert Antony's attention.

The early Roman calendar, which had no way of designating the days of the winter months other than to lump them together as " winter ", is an example of an incomplete calendar, while the Gregorian calendar is an example of a complete calendar.

Cyclones may occur in the early months of the year.

However, none of these parameters differ significantly from early writings of Howard and Balfour, suggesting that in fact modern composting has not made significant advances over the traditional methods that take a few months to work.

For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s.

Rather than pursuing his opponent, Constantius then turned his attention to securing the Danubian border, where he spent the early months of 352 campaigning against the Sarmatians along the middle Danube.

In 341-2, Constans led a successful campaign against the Franks and in the early months of 343 visited Britain.

Some wide-ranging actions were fought, again mostly in the early months of the war.

In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

* Epilepsy Female with / without Mental Retardation, is characterized by seizure onset in infancy or early childhood ( 6 – 36 months ) and cognitive impairment in some cases.