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Fox was unable to travel there immediately: he was imprisoned again in 1664 for his refusal to swear the oath of allegiance, and on his release in 1666 was preoccupied with organizational matters — he normalized the system of monthly and quarterly meetings throughout the country, and extended it to Ireland.
In 1666, barely three decades after settling there, 30 of New Haven's families took the perilous journey by water to found " a town on the Passayak " River.
Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.
In 1666 the church burned down in the Great Fire of London and Sir Christopher Wren built a new church there in 1672 to replace it, which still stands.
He chose a small group of scholars who met on 22 December 1666 in the King's library, and thereafter held twice-weekly working meetings there.
After the Great Fire of London in 1666, refugees from the fire evacuated to Moorfields and set up temporary camps there.
In 1666 there were 91 hearths in Farnworth liable to pay tax.
In Song Yingxing's ( 1587 – 1666 ) encyclopedic book the Tiangong Kaiwu ( 1637 ), there is description and illustration of a cylinder chain pump, powered by waterwheels and leading water up from the river to an elevated plain of agricultural crops.
He was buried at Allhallows, Hertford, on 26 June 1666, and was later removed to Ware where there is a monument.
He preached at St Margaret, Westminster on 10 October 1666, the ' day of humiliation and fasting ' after the Great Fire of London, with such an attendance that there was standing room only.
From the original settlement the bay began to be populated ; the English subjects burst in 1633 and from 1666 they were already organized into colonies, and by 1705 there were authorities established.
While there he published the Decisions of the Court of Session between 1666 and 1671, of which he had kept a daily record, and a small treatise on natural philosophy, entitled Physiologia nova experimentalis.
Eleven years later Jacob Vogel's description of the east coast of the Oman peninsula, prepared for the Dutch East India Company in 1666, contained the following: " Dabba ( which we were unable to visit because of calm and counter currents ) is a place ( according to the interpreter assigned to us ) with about 300 small houses constructed from branches of date trees ... During the days of the Portuguese, there were here 4 fortresses of which the biggest one is still standing.
Even in the centre, there are no brick houses this old, pre-dating the Great Fire of 1666.
In the hearth tax of 1666 there were 97 hearths in the township, the rector's house was the largest with ten.
In 1666 there were thirty-five hearths liable for tax in Pendlebury.
In 1666 the English Admiral Robert Holmes burnt a Dutch merchant fleet of 130 ships ( Holmes's Bonfire ), that had taken refuge in the Vlie, mistakenly supposing the English could never find their way through the treacherous shoals, so typical for the coastal waters there.
Antoine Parent ( September 16, 1666 – September 26, 1716 ) was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions.
He there, 1666, engraved for Le Brun Constantines Battle with Laxentius, his Triumph, and the Stoning of Stephen, which gave great satisfaction to the painter, and placed Audran in the very first rank of engravers at Paris.
Indeed, only in Paris was specialization ever taken to an extreme, where, in addition to existing Académie Française and the Académie des Sciences founded in 1635 and 1666, there were three further royal foundations in the 18th century: the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ( 1701 ), the Académie de Chirurgie ( 1730 ), and the Société de Médecine ( 1776 ).

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Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).
There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.
Fifth Monarchists believed that the timing of the events of the Interregnum were significant because the calendar year 1666 loomed large on the near horizon.
After the Scanian provinces were taken from Denmark, Lund University was founded in 1666.
By 1776, the position of the British Secretary at War was a sophisticated managerial role, but the duties in 1661 to 1666 of England's first Secretary at War, Sir William Clarke, were more basic ones of literally handling the secretarial duties of managing official correspondence, memoranda, military orders, and financial accounts.
) The Third Folio is relatively rare, compared to the Second and Fourth, probably because unsold copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The first recorded colored cloud was seen by Nathan Ingleton in 1651, he wrote the event in his diary but the records were destroyed in 1666, in the Great Fire of London.
Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English, who formed a colony in 1666.
* British Virgin Islands-The islands were settled from 1666.
There was much difficulty in adjusting the tangled accounts outstanding between Velázquez and the treasury, and it was not until 1666, after the death of King Philip, that they were finally settled.
Fairfield County was established by an act of the Connecticut General Court in Hartford along with Hartford County, New Haven County, and New London County ; which were the first four Connecticut counties, on May 10, 1666.
Hartford County was one of four original counties in Connecticut that were established on May 10, 1666, by an act of the Connecticut General Court.
New London County was one of four original counties in Connecticut that were established on May 10, 1666, by an act of the Connecticut General Court.
While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).
In 1666, the English became anxious to destroy the Dutch navy completely before it could grow too strong and were desperate to end the activity of Dutch raiders as a collapse of English trade threatened.
In 1666, his premises were one of the most westerly buildings to be engulfed in the Great Fire of London.
Dugdale, writing his book The History of Imbanking and Drayning of divers Fenns and Marshes in 1662, which was based on personal observations he made during a trip to the Fens in May 1657, and the records of the Fens Office, most of which were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, thought it was the least of the rivers he had seen, and recorded that it " serveth almost to none other use, but to carry away so much of its own water, with the rill descending from Burne, as can be kept between two defensible banks.
Between 1666 and 1673, Bugis mercenaries were employed by the Johor empire when a civil war erupted with Jambi, an event that marked the beginning of Bugis influences in local conflicts for succeeding centuries.
In 1666 Séguier was placed at the head of a commission called to simplify the police organization, especially that of Paris ; and the consequent ordinances of 1667 and 1670 for the better administration of justice were drawn up by him.
The Qing Dynasty changed this situation by establishing Nanzhili as Jiangnan province ; in 1666 Jiangsu and Anhui were split apart as separate provinces, and Jiangsu was given borders approximately the same as today.
Something of its 17th-century origins can be seen today in an inscription at the entrance gate to Bunhill Fields: This church-yard was inclosed with a brick wall at the sole charges of the City of London, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, Knt., Anno Domini 1665 ; and afterwards the gates thereof were built and finished in the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Knt., Anno Domini, 1666.
Fire departments were again formed by property insurance companies beginning in the 17th century after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Following the Great Fire in 1666, closely described in his diaries, Evelyn presented one of several plans ( Christopher Wren produced another ) for the rebuilding of London, all of which were roundly ignored by Charles II.

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