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In 1668 an area of the Poulteney estate known as Sandpit Field was surrendered to Charles II, who made the bulk of the land into a Royal Park, as " Upper St James's Park " and enclosed it with a brick wall.
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Chief Quipuha was the maga ' lahi, or high ranking male, in the area of Hagåtña when the Spanish landed off its shores in 1668.
Karnak (" Carnac ") as a village name, and name of the complex, is first attested in 1668, when two capuchin missionary brothers Protais and Charles François d ' Orléans travelled though the area.
Mouscron and the surrounding area became French after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1668 ).
Formerly a single settlement from 1668 to 1817, it was subsequently divided by the establishment of the Canada – US border in the area.
The Uí Néill built a fortress here in the fifteenth century, but in 1668 the area passed into the ownership of the Eccles family.
One of the first Europeans to settle the area was Francis Lovelace, the second governor of the New York colony, who in 1668 started farming in the area that would become Livingston.
The first European to visit the Saginaw Bay area was Father Jacques Marquette, a French missionary priest, who went there in 1668 after establishing a mission in St. Ignace.
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He died in 1668 and the East Sutton estate passed to his brother Robert who was created a Baronet in 1674 in honour of their father's loyalty to the Crown.
" Lionel died in 1668, leaving his Ham and Petersham estate to Elizabeth.
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One of the first known reflecting telescopes, Newton's reflector of 1668, used a 3. 3 cm polished metal primary mirror.
The Dutch were privileged by a concession obtained after their victory in the Second Anglo-Dutch War, known as the principle of " free ship, free goods " which was enshrined in the Anglo-Dutch Commercial Treaty of 1668 ( reconfirmed in the Treaty of Westminster ( 1674 )).
In 1668, much of the land between Overpeck Creek and the Hudson River was purchased by Samuel Edsall, and soon became known as the English Neighborhood, despite the fact most of the settlers were of Dutch and Huguenot origin.
He is most well known for his series of experiments, published in 1668 as Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl ' Insetti ( Experiments on the Generation of Insects ), which is regarded as one of the first steps in refuting " spontaneous generation "-a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis.
Pieter Burman ( 1668 – March 31, 1741 ), often called Burmann, and known as the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, was a Dutch classical scholar.
However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d ' Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III ( 1668 – 1710 ) declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc.
In the spring of 1668, Razin led the majority of his men down the Yaik River ( also known as the Ural River ) while a small portion stayed behind to guard Yaitsk.
In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, Luyten's Star is Down's primary ( known as " L5 1668 ", a corrupted designation ).
Charles Couperin ( known as " Couperin-cadet ") succeeded Louis as organist at St. Gervais and, in 1668, produced an only child, François Couperin le Grand, who became one of the most important French composers of the late Baroque era.
Merck, also known as “ German Merck ” and “ Merck Darmstadt ”, was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668, making it the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company.
Heinrich Roth ( December 18, 1620 in Augsburg, Germany – June 20, 1668 in Agra ; also known as Henricus Rodius or Henrique Roa ) was a missionary and pioneering Sanskrit scholar.
Newton ’ s first reflecting telescope was completed in 1668 and is the earliest known functional reflecting telescope.
Britain Yearly Meeting, which until 1995 was known as London Yearly Meeting, grew out of various national and regional meetings of Friends in the 1650s and 1660s and has met annually in some form since 1668.
Sultan Husayn ( also known as Soltan Hosayn and Soltan Hosein ) () ( born? 1668 ; died 1726 ; reigned 1694 – 1722 ) was a Safavid king of Iran ( Persia ).
James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 1648 – June 1683 ), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1660 to 1668, was an English nobleman.
The House of the Seven Gables ( also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion ) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
However when he was away in London in 1668, a feud broke out between Clan Donald and their enemies Clan Mackintosh, who headed the confederation of clans known as Clan Chattan.
In 1665 it was known as the 4th ( The Holland Maritime ) Regiment and by 1668 as the 4th ( The Holland ) Regiment.
Mathematically, he is most well known for his treatise Logarithmo-technica on logarithms, published in 1668.
The village was principally known as the location of Walkenried Abbey, the third Cistercian monastery established on German-speaking territory, founded in 1127 and secularised in 1668.
His father, Lord Motobu Chōshin ( Motobu Aji Chōsin ) was a descendant of the sixth son of the Okinawan King, Shō Shitsu ( 1629 – 1668 ), namely Shō Kōshin, also known as Prince Motobu Chōhei ( 1655 – 1687 ).
Jean-David Nau () ( c. 1635 – c. 1668 ), better known as François l ' Olonnais (), was a French pirate, active in the Caribbean during the 1660s.
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In 1668 he became lieutenant general and finally, later, Field Marshal.
He was Grand Guardian of the Crown since 1666, Great Chorąży of the Crown since 1668, Court Marshall of the Crown since 1676, starost of Lwów since 1679, voivode of Volhynian Voivodship since 1679, Field Crown Hetman since 1682 and starost of Radom, Rohatyn, and Piaseczno.
Great Chorąży of the Crown since 1660, voivode of Kijów Voivodship since 1668, voivode of Kraków Voivodship since 1682, castellan of Kraków since 1682, Field Crown Hetman since 1684.
He held the following titles: Majorat of Nieśwież, Master of the Pantry of Lithuania ( since 1652 ), Curver of Lithuania ( since 1653 ), Cupbearer of Lithuania ( since 1656 ), castellan of Vilnius ( since 1661 ), Voivode of the Vilnius Voivodeship ( since 1667 ), Deputy Chancellor of Lithuania ( 1668 ) and Field Hetman of Lithuania.
Wiśniowiecki was Great Guard of the Crown from 1658, Field Hetman of the Crown from 1668, Great Crown Hetman from 1676, voivode of Belz 1660 – 1678 and Kraków 1678 – 1681, and castellan of Kraków from 1681.
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Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.
Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.
He returned home in 1667, was admitted advocate in 1668 and gained a high legal reputation.
On 5 June 1668, both ships left port at Deptford, England, but the " Eaglet " was forced to turn back off the coast of Ireland.
Östgöta Nation, the oldest nation, was established in 1668, two years after the university was founded.
The first recorded proposal for a decimal-based unit of length was the universal measure unit proposed by the English philosopher John Wilkins in 1668.
The first mention of the natural logarithm was by Nicholas Mercator in his work Logarithmotechnia published in 1668, although the mathematics teacher John Speidell had already in 1619 compiled a table on the natural logarithm.
There are few sources on Ole Rømer until his immatriculation in 1662 at the University of Copenhagen, at which his mentor was Rasmus Bartholin who published his discovery of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar ( calcite ) in 1668, while Rømer was living in his home.
He was mediator during the 1668 peace of Aachen, in the wars of succession between France, Spain, England and the Netherlands.
* House of Vasa was the Royal House of Sweden 1523-1654 and of Poland and Lithuania 1587 – 1668
It was in part to pre-empt French objections to this outcome that in 1668, only three years after Charles II had ascended, the then-childless Leopold had agreed to partition Spanish territories between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs, even though Philip IV's will would have entitled him to the entire inheritance.
Franche-Comté was captured by France in 1668 but returned under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
It was made up of three regions: parts of the Counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai, which were ceded to France in successive treaties ( 1659, 1668, and 1678 ).
Year 1668 ( MDCLXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
The idea of a metric system was proposed by John Wilkins, first secretary of the Royal Society of London in 1668.
The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by Henricus Valesius ( Henri Valois ) ( Paris, 1668 ), who used the Codex Regius, a Codex Vaticanus, and a Codex Florentinus, and also employed the indirect tradition of Theodorus Lector ( Codex Leonis Alladi ).
This business was set up in the cellars of the new Sheldonian Theatre, where Fell installed printing presses in 1668, making it the university's first central print shop.
Jonathan Edwards, born on October 5, 1703, was the son of Timothy Edwards ( 1668 – 1759 ), a minister at East Windsor, Connecticut ( modern day South Windsor ), who eked out his salary by tutoring boys for college.
This arrangement was made official in the Treaty of Westminster of 1674, after the British had regained and again lost Suriname in 1667 and the Dutch regained the colony in 1668.
From 1661 until 1668 Wren's life was based in Oxford, although his attendance at meetings of the Royal Society meant that he had to make occasional trips to London.
The second was the design of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, completed in 1668.
The boundary was finally resolved in June 1668 by agreement between the colonies.
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