At Derby in 1650 he was imprisoned for blasphemy ; a judge mocked Fox's exhortation to " tremble at the word of the Lord ", calling him and his followers " Quakers ".

Besides the Bible, children needed to read in order to “ understand ... the capital laws of this country ,” as the Massachusetts code declared, order being of the utmost importance, and children not taught to read would grow “ barbarous ” ( the 1648 amendment to the Massachusetts law and the 1650 Connecticut code, both used the word “ barbarisme ”).

The word, hermetic, was used by Dr. Everard in the English translation of The Pimander of Hermes ( 1650 ).

The word ogre came into wider usage in the works of Charles Perrault ( 1628 – 1703 ) or Marie-Catherine Jumelle de Berneville, Comtesse d ' Aulnoy ( 1650 – 1705 ), both of whom were French authors.

From c. 1650 to c. 1870 Roger was slang for the word " penis and vagina " probably due to the origin of the name involving fame with a spear.

Opera as a dramatic genre originated around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, although the word itself was not in use before 1650.

Although various Ambrosians were given the title of Blessed in recognition of their holiness: Antonio Gonzaga of Mantua, Filippo of Fermo, and Gerardo of Monza, the order was eventually dissolved by Pope Innocent X in 1650.

Thābit's formula was rediscovered by Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) and Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), to whom it is sometimes ascribed, and extended by Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ).

In 1650 the Minuet, originally a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ballroom from that time until the close of the 18th century.

The earliest extant reference to the first foliation of the Nowell Codex was made sometime between 1628 and 1650 by Franciscus Junius ( the younger ).

It was Governor Thomas Dudley who, in 1650, signed the charter creating the corporation which still governs Harvard College.

Western casuistry dates from Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), yet the zenith of casuistry was from 1550 to 1650, when the Society of Jesus used case-based reasoning, particularly in administering the Sacrament of Penance ( or " confession ").

Though the Church of England was retained, episcopacy was suppressed and the Act of Uniformity was repealed in 1650.

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

On 27th Sep 1650 du Parquet bought Grenada, Martinique, and St. Lucia from the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ), as it was dissolved, for the equivalent of £ 1160.

However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate ( built in 1610 and rebuilt in 1641 ), which was renamed Resolution in 1650 following the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and continued to bear that name until 1660, when the name Prince Royal was restored.

So long as Ambrose continued at Preston he was favoured with the warm friendship of the Hoghton family, their ancestral woods and the tower near Blackburn affording him sequestered places for those devout meditations and " experiences " that give such a charm to his diary, portions of which are quoted in his Prima Media and Ultima ( 1650, 1659 ).

It was continued by various writers and grew to twenty-one volumes ( 1633 – 1738 ), including illustrations by the beautiful copperplate engravings of Matthäus Merian ( 1593 – 1650 ).

His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars " without his privity " ( Isaacson, 1650 ); his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however.

Muscat was taken by the Portuguese on 1 April 1515, and was held until 26 January 1650, although the Ottomans controlled Muscat between 1550 – 1551 and 1581 – 1588.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Innocent X objected to the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia, against which his nuncio, Fabio Chigi, in his name vainly protested, and against which in 1650 he issued the bull Zelo Domus Dei backdated to November 1648, which was ignored by the European Powers.

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

In 1650 he was presented to the college living of North Cadbury, Somerset.

The melding of Orthodox Christianity and native practices resulted in the brightly-colored spirit houses which can be seen at the Eklutna Cemetery, in use since 1650 and now a historical park.

For example, Jeremy Taylor defined 5 rules in Holy Living ( 1650 ), including abstaining from marrying " so long as she is with child by her former husband " and " within the year of mourning ".

In response to Hobbes, the French Philosopher Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed Cartesian Dualism, which posits that there is a divisible, mechanical body and an indivisible, immaterial mind which interact with one another.

The economy, on the whole, improved over the depressed 1650 – 1700 era, with greater productivity and fewer famines and epidemics.

John Locke, whose close relationship with Edward Clarke ( 1650 – 1710 ) | Edward Clarke led to the repeal of the Licensing Act.

2000 – 1650 BC Akrotiri developed into one of the Aegean's major Bronze Age ports, with recovered objects that had come, not just from Crete, but also from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, and Egypt as well as from the Dodecanese and the Greek mainland.

The history of thermodynamics as a scientific discipline generally begins with Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, built and designed the world's first vacuum pump and demonstrated a vacuum using his Magdeburg hemispheres.

Thailand has about the same surface area as Spain and a length of approximately 1650 kilometers or 1025 miles ( Italy, in comparison, is about 1250 kilometers or 775 miles long ), with foothills of the Himalayas in the north, a high plateau in the northeast, a verdant river basin in the centre and tropical rainforests and islands in the south.

The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

To try to bring the recalcitrant colony to heel, the Commonwealth Parliament passed an act on 3 October 1650 which prohibited trade between England and the island, and because the island also traded with the Netherlands, further navigation acts were passed prohibiting any but English vessels trading with Dutch colonies.

de Heem, detail of silverware from " A Richly Laid Table with Parrots ", c. 1650

Image: Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo 020. jpg | Madonna with the Rosary by Murillo, 1650

Probably around 1650 von Guericke invented a vacuum pump consisting of a piston and an air gun cylinder with two-way flaps designed to pull air out of whatever vessel it was connected to, and used it to investigate the properties of the vacuum in many experiments.

French Protestants joined the Dutch but conflict with the British colony led to its abandonment before 1650.

The story that he was at Westminster School between 1641 and 1646 is substantiated only by Parentalia, the biography compiled by his son, a fourth Christopher, which places him there " for some short time " before going up to Oxford ( in 1650 ); however, it is entirely consistent with headmaster Doctor Busby's well-documented practice of educating the sons of impoverished Royalists and Puritans alike, irrespective of current politics or his own position.

As late as 1650, P. Schirleus has produced a Geocentric planetarium showing the sun as a planet with Mercury and Venus moving around it as moons.

According to the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America, Englishman Robert Brooke was the first man to import hunting hounds to America, bringing his pack of foxhounds to Maryland in 1650 along with his horses.

He was invested in 1666 with the Order of the Garter ( which had been bestowed upon him in 1650 ), and was advanced to a dukedom on 16 March 1665.

In May 1650, the Covenanters signed the Treaty of Breda, allying themselves with King Charles II against the English Parliamentarians, who had executed King Charles I the previous year.

In memory of the visit he made to Chenonceau on July 14, 1650, Louis XIV much later offered his uncle the duc de Vendôme his portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, with an extraordinary frame by Lepautre, made up of only four huge pieces of wood-as well as the furniture covered in Aubusson tapestries and a Boulle style console.

* 1650 Captains Hernán Martín and Diego del Castillo explore the western portion of the county to the Concho River and return with pearls.

The lack of dry land was countered by reclaiming some of the lakes, starting with Stom Lake in 1650, and followed by Horn Lake in 1674.