When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

The monument was started in 1640, and mostly completed by 1644.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Barcelona had always been the stronghold of Catalan separatism and was the center of the Catalan Revolt ( 1640 – 52 ) against Philip IV of Spain.

In the Spanish army, in 1635, Pedro de la Puente organized in Innsbruck ( Austria ) a body of dragoons, and in 1640 one was created in Spain as a tercio of a thousand dragoons armed with the arqabus.

George William of Brandenburg () ( 13 November 1595 – 1 December, 1640 ), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave and elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death.

– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.

In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth in the Short Parliament.

His Whole Booke of Job Paraphrased, or made easy for any to understand ( 1640, quarto ), was written in a terse style which contrasts with the usual wordiness of the Puritan expositors and commentators.

A previous law ( the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 ) had been passed forty years earlier to overturn a ruling that the command of the King was a sufficient answer to a petition of habeas corpus.

1640 – 1710 ) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became hakam of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died.

The Bowhead whale was locally hunted to near extinction around 1640 ( approximately 1000 had been killed and processed on the island ), at which time Jan Mayen was abandoned and stayed uninhabited for two and a half centuries.

* Rebecca was born about 1640 and died between June 12, 1696 and October 5, 1722.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

The Long Parliament of England was established on 3 November 1640 to pass financial bills, following the Bishops ' Wars.

It sat from 1640 until 1648, when it was purged, by the New Model Army, of those who were not sympathetic to the Army's concerns.

The sole reason Charles I assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops ' Wars had bankrupted him.

Luanda was Portugal's bridgehead from 1627, except during the Dutch rule of Luanda, from 1640 to 1648, as Fort Aardenburgh.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

Murad IV Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi ‘) < span dir =" ltr ">( July 26 / 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.

On his deathbed, Murad IV ordered the execution of his mentally disabled brother, Ibrahim I ( reigned 1640 – 48 ), which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line ; but the order was not carried out.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.