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In 1689, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a pioneer of study of karst in Slovenia and a fellow of the The Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, London, introduced the word karst to European scholars, describing the phenomenon of underground flows of rivers.
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1689 and Janez
The town of Slunj was first mentioned in a written document by the chronicler Janez Vajkard Valvasor who reported about the fortified town of Slunj, a bridge and a mill in 1689.
1689 and Valvasor
Ruodolphswert, engraving by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor | Valvasor, 1689
A depiction of the Argonauts building Emona, published in the Glory of the Duchy of Carniola ( 1689 ) by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
1689 and pioneer
** Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India ( d. 1689 )
* Edward Wooster ( 1622 – 1689 ), early pioneer and founder of Derby, Connecticut
Edward Wooster ( 1622 in England – July 8, 1689 ) was an English early pioneer of Colonial America, and " the first permanent settler in Derby "
Eisleben was a pioneer of " heritage tourism " — it took steps to preserve its Luther memorials as far back as 1689.
1689 and study
In his study of political theory in Britain from 1689 to 1720, J. P. Kenyon said that Sidney's Discourses " were certainly much more influential than Locke's Two Treatises ".
He was appointed adjunct professor of philosophy there soon after taking his master's degree in 1687, and in 1689 exchanged this for a similar position at Jena, where he also paid much attention to the study of history.
1689 and fellow
After Peter I gained power in 1689, he joined him as a fellow campaigner.
He was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he was made fellow in 1689 and tutor in 1691.
1689 and Royal
* 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 1689 – 1696.
* March 27 – Arthur Dobbs, Irish politician and governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina ( b. 1689 )
At one stage the trade was the monopoly of the Royal Africa Company, operating out of London, but following the loss of the company's monopoly in 1689, Bristol and Liverpool merchants became increasingly involved in the trade.
In 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, " unless upon occasions very extraordinary ", on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.
During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).
* June 1689 – 22 September 1713 His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy
This action became known as the Protestant Revolution of 1689, and resulted in the reversion of Lord Baltimore's proprietary charter and the province being converted into a Royal colony.
On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.
In the process, the Bill of Rights 1689 was amended by the Defamation Bill which became act by Royal Assent in July 1996.
The maintenance of a certain level of merchant shipping and of trade generally also facilitated a rapid increase in the size and quality of the Royal Navy, which eventually ( after the Anglo-Dutch Alliance of 1689 limited the Dutch navy to three-fifths of the size of the English one ) led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid-20th century.
During the long series of wars against the French that began in 1689 and lasted until 1815, the Royal Navy came into Brixham to get supplies of fresh vegetables, beef and water.
In 1689, the Royal Mint began using a design for the reverse of the four low-denomination silver coins depicting a crowned numeral.
In 1689 the Royal Welch Fusiliers were founded at the Castle by Lord Herbert of Chirbury but soon after it was abandoned and gradually fell into decay.
As the university was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden ( 1626 – 1689 ) in Turku, as the Royal Academy of Turku (), the senior part of the school formed the core of the new university, while the junior year courses formed a grammar school.
On two occasions he was Lord High Admiral for a short period ; he was also Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, while he acted as one of the Lords Justices seven times ; and he was President of the Royal Society in 1689 – 1690.
By the time he entered the Royal Navy in March 1718, aged 13, his father was a well-established admiral at the peak of a uniformly successful career, who since supporting King William III in his successful bid to be crowned King of England in 1689 had seen his stature and fortune grow.
During the reign of King William III and Queen Mary II, the Royal Hospital was still under construction, so they introduced a system for distribution of army pensions in 1689.
In the United Kingdom, the reforms will require amendments to numerous pieces of legislation including the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701, the Union with Scotland Act 1707 and the Coronation Oath Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British army originally formed in 1689 as James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons.
Chairman of the Royal Council of Finances ( conseil royal des Finances ) in 1685, he became the governor of the Duke of Burgundy ( 1689 ), the duke of Anjou ( future King Philip V of Spain ) ( 1690 ), and the duke of Berry ( 1693 ), thus being in charge of the education of the three grandsons of Louis XIV.
27 June 1689 – 30 July 1700: His Royal Highness Prince William, Duke of Gloucester
The office of Dean was suppressed with the abolition of prelacy in 1689, and the revenues of the Chapel Royal reverted to the Crown.
Sir John Berry ( 1635 – 14 February 1689 or 1690 ) was an English naval officer of the Royal Navy, and was in 1675 the captain of the annual convoy to Newfoundland that took place during the years of the colony's founding.
1689 and Society
Hooke gave an address to the Society in December 1689 in which he provided what was the first detailed description of cannabis in English, commending its possible curative properties and noting that Knox " has so often experimented it himself, that there is no Cause of Fear, tho ' possibly there may be of Laughter.
The Society aims to commemorate the 1689 Siege of Derry when Catholic James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland laid siege to the walled city which was at the time a Protestant stronghold.
1689 and for
However the Bill of Rights of 1689 requires Parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a standing army in peacetime.
A Collect for 5th November, in Book of Common Prayer published London 1689, referring to the Gunpowder Plot and the arrival of William III of England | William III
The so-called Liturgy of Comprehension of 1689, which was the result, conceded two thirds of the Presbyterian demands of 1661 ; but when it came to Convocation the members, now more fearful of William's perceived agenda, did not even discuss it and its contents were, for a long time, not even accessible.
Organised worship in England for those whose beliefs anticipated those of Christadelphians only truly became possible in 1779 when the Act of Toleration 1689 was amended to permit denial of the Trinity, and only fully when property penalties were removed in the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813.
The title of Earl of Marlborough, which was created for Churchill in 1689, had been created one time previously in British history, for James Ley, in 1626.
There had been three attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689 to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that the idea had the will of both political establishments behind them, albeit for rather different reasons.
It was written to a libretto furnished by Nahum Tate, and performed in 1689 in cooperation with Josias Priest, a dancing master and the choreographer for the Dorset Garden Theatre.
Consequently, the English Bill of Rights ( 1689 ) declared, amongst other things: " that the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law ..." and " that the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law.
The formation of the Grand Alliance and outbreak of war against France in 1689 meant that for several years ships from Asia avoided the island for fear of being attacked by French men-of-war.
He and his troops did not stay for long, however, as the town was quickly engulfed by the plague, which ultimately killed Piccolomini himself in December 1689.
The right to petition was an echo of the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated " t is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal ".
The Act of Toleration ( 1689 ), the long title being An Act for Exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Lawes, gave relief to English Dissenters, but excluded Unitarians.
This position changed in 1689 when Leopold secured William III of England's support to claim the undivided Spanish Empire in return for Leopold's aid against France in the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).
The Bill of Rights ( 1688 or 1689 ) was one of the inspirations for the United States Bill of Rights.
Deliberately painful methods of execution for severe crimes were taken for granted as part of justice until the development of Humanism in 17th century philosophy, and " cruel and unusual punishment " came to be denounced in the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
α Centauri, for example, was found to be double by Father Richaud in 1689, and so is designated RHD 1.
Additionally, he was sufficiently active in public affairs to be returned as Member of Parliament for Old Windsor in 1680, 1689 and 1690, but did not take his seat.
After the Treaty of Nerchinsk ( 1689 ), the area became an uncontested part of the Qing Empire for the next century and a half.
Eventually, the Council resumed and except for brief interludes, Ludlow continued to host the Council until 1689, when it was abolished by William and Mary.
This was the spark that ignited the powder keg created by the unresolved issues of the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1689 – 97 ) and the acceptance of the Spanish inheritance by Louis XIV for his grandson.
Except for the punishment of desertion, which was made a felony by statute in the reign of Henry VI, these ordinances or Articles of War remained almost the sole authority for the enforcement of discipline until 1689, when the first Mutiny Act was passed and the military forces of the crown were brought under the direct control of parliament.
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