Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

The Parliament was initially influenced by John Pym ( 1584 – 1699 ) and his supporters.

Led by John Pym, Parliament presented the King with the Grand Remonstrance which was passed in the House of Commons by 11 votes ( 159 – 148 ) on 22 November 1641.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

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In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with an Act of Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.

* December 8 – John Pym, English statesman ( b. 1583 )

Glover, Hibbert Newton, John Cox Gawler, Robert Polwhele, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, John Pym Yeatman, Herbert Aldersmith, William Carpenter, Protheroe Smith, Thomas Stratton, Elieser Bassin, William H. Poole, Thomas Rosling Howlett, Frederick Charles Danvers, Charles Piazzi Smyth, George Moore, C. A. L. Totten, Edward Wheeler Bird, Moses Margoliouth, Robert Govett, Jonathan Titcomb, John Leyland Feilden, Marcus Blake Brownrigg and Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi.

He was friends with John Pym, one of the strongest critics of Charles in the House of Commons during the Short Parliament and its successor the Long Parliament.

Pym, John Hampden and Denzil Holles were the leading members of the committee from the Commons.

In 1633, the Plantation of Cochecho was bought by a group of English Puritans who planned to settle in New England, including Viscount Saye and Sele, Baron Brooke and John Pym.

* John Pym, parliamentarian and critic of Charles I of England

Coke became a leading opposition MP, along with Robert Phelips, Thomas Wentworth and John Pym, campaigning against any military intervention and the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Maria Anna.

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* 1584 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar ( d. 1654 )

On 6 April 1584, Oxford's daughter, Bridget, was born, and two works were dedicated to him, Robert Greene's Gwydonius ; The Card of Fancy, and John Southern's Pandora.

* Barbara Sophie ( 16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636 ), married John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg

* The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem ; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.

* November 30 – John Selden, English jurist ( b. 1584 )

He was a direct descendant of John Deming, ( 1615 – 1705 ) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat ( 1584 – 1669 ) an early New England settler, Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature and also a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.

* 1584 John Mudd

Manteo had been " civilized " by the English during a trip to London in 1584 where he and another native, Wanchese, learned to become the liaisons between the Roanoke Colony settlers and the Indians, and had favorable interaction with British colonist John White.

Coming from a Catholic family, the great English poet John Donne came up to Hart Hall in 1584.

Balnaves also busied himself in writing what Knox calls " a comfortable treatise of justification ," which was found in manuscript at the house of John Cockburn of Ormiston by Knox's secretary Richard Bannatyne and published at Edinburgh in 1584 under the title The Confession of Faith.

In 1584, a Reformed ( Calvinistic ) institution, the Herborn Academy, was founded by John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, William the Silent's younger brother, and namesake of today's Gymnasium Johanneum.

Much has been written about Loftus during this time but between 1584 and 1591 ; he had a series of clashes with Sir John Perrot on the location of an Irish University.

At the end of 1584, the new lord deputy, Sir John Perrot, sent Stanley north in the company of Sir Henry Bagenal to act against the Ulster chieftains and the Scots led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell.

** John Selden, jurist, scholar ( born 1584 )

** John Ford, dramatist ( born 1584 )

But in 1584 the recently arrived lord deputy of Ireland, Sir John Perrot, led his army into the province in a determined effort to dislodge the Scots.

Between 1584 and 1603, he established effective royal government and relative peace among the lords, ably assisted by John Maitland of Thirlestane, who led the government until 1592.

Walton tells us that Carew in his last illness, being afflicted with the horrors, sent in great haste to " the ever-memorable " John Hales ( 1584 – 1656 ); Hales " told him he should have his prayers, but would by no means give him then either the sacrament or absolution.

During the Second Desmond Rebellion in Munster, he fought in 1580 with the English forces against Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, and assisted Sir John Perrot against the Scots of Ulster in 1584.

John Aubrey in " Brief lives ", gave the following glimpse into the creation of this dictionary: Dr. Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at night so, compileing his Dictionarie, ( Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, Londini, 1584 ; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford ).

He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 5 June 1584, alongside John Hoskins.

John Feckenham ( c. 1515 – October, 1584 ), also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.