When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.

When European colonial powers began to send ships along the West coast of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Senegal River was often postulated to be seaward end of the Niger.

When Unitarianism developed in the 17th century during the Protestant era of the evolution of Christianity, the strongholds in Transylvania, Poland, and eventually Britain and the northeastern parts of the United States were firmly in the congregational tradition.

When asked in Calcutta whether he envisioned a Maratha-type of government for Free India, Tilak replied that the Maratha-dominated governments of 17th and 18th centuries were outmoded in the 20th century, and he wanted a genuine federal system for Free India where every religion and race was an equal partner.

When mangoes were first imported to the American colonies in the 17th century, they had to be pickled due to lack of refrigeration.

When he retired, he had the second-highest total of career strikeouts in Major League history ; he is currently 17th.

When it comes to the African American experience, gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century.

When the Puritans banned Christmas celebrations in the 17th century, they also passed specific legislation to outlaw such pies, calling them " Idolaterie in crust ".

When Spain colonised the Philippines in the early 17th century, the numerous languages of the Philippines were written in various scripts, such as Baybayin.

When, in the 17th century, the splendidly equipped Jesuit drama arose, the Passion Plays ( still largely secularized ) were relegated to out-of-the-way villages and to the monasteries, particularly in Bavaria and Austria.

When King Christian IV of Denmark prohibited the importation of German beer in the early 17th Century, distillation began in Norway.

When incorporated as part of the Union Flag during the 17th century, the dark blue applied to Union Flags destined for maritime use was possibly selected on the basis of the durability of darker dyes, with this dark blue shade eventually becoming standard on Union Flags both at sea and on land.

When Chiapas became a diocese in the 17th century, with San Cristóbal as its seat, this church was torn down to build the current structure, dedicated to Saint Christopher, the patron of the city.

* 17th century & 18th century: When Vietnam divides during this period, the Nguyễn rulers of the south choose to support Mahayana Buddhism as an integrative ideology for the ethnically plural society of their kingdom, which is also populated by Chams and other minorities.

When those governments abandoned the practice of issuing letters of marque against the Spanish treasure fleets and possessions in the later 16th century, many privateers turned pirate and used the city as their main base during the heyday of the Caribbean pirates in the 17th century.

When Mawhood learned that Mercer was in his rear and moving to join Sullivan, Mawhood detached part of the 55th Regiment to join the 40th Regiment in the town and then moved the rest of the 55th, the 17th, fifty cavalry and two artillery pieces to attack Mercer.

When the 17th session opened that October, parliament was in a tremendously combative mood.

When the site of Islin went out of use — during the 17th or 18th century — Ishwa was probably repopulated ; by 1875, it had a population of 450.

When French explorers first journeyed to the region from Canada in the early 17th century, they found the area inhabited by a vigorous, populous Algonquian-speaking nation.

When the center of Hercegovački Sanjak ( Sanjak of Herzegovina ) was moved to Pljevlja from Foča in 1572, the city started to change rapidly: urban housing increased — 72 houses in 1468, 150 in 1516, 300 in 1570 ; in the 17th century Pljevlja had around 650 houses in the city center and over 400 in the surrounding area.

When Guybrush first appeared in The Secret of Monkey Island he was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate ( the Monkey Island games take place in the Caribbean during a fictional time period ; 17th century-style pirates exist alongside anachronistic objects such as vending machines that dispense grog in glass bottles ).

When early cartographers came to the town in the early 17th century, they reasoned that the town must have been named for the ford over the Stort and assumed the river was called the Stort.

When the early settlers arrived from France in the 16th and 17th century, they brought with them popular tales from their homeland.

When the military finally arrived to restore order on the 17th and 18th, most of the rioters had disbanded, although there were rumours that mobs were destroying property in Alcester and Bromsgrove.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

When the idea and reality of the National Debt came about during the 18th century this was also managed by the bank.

When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.

When PEI entered Confederation in 1873, it was accorded 6 MPs and 4 Senators ; however this was reduced to 4 MPs by the early twentieth century.

When the oak plantations matured in the mid-19th century, the masts were no longer required because shipping had changed.

When paper became generally available, from the 14th century onwards, artists ' drawings, both preparatory studies and finished works, became increasingly common.

When Detroit underwent rapid industrialization at the turn of the 20th century, the Detroit River became notoriously polluted and toxic.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

* When Flandria appeared in the 8th century, it was a Frankish fief centred on Bruges.

When England switched to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs.

When the Franks invaded the Roman territories ( from the end of the 4th century and well into the 5th century ) they brought their language with them and Celtic and Latin were replaced by Old Dutch.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in Boeotia, in the second century AD, he was shown Hector's tomb and was told that the bones had been transported to Thebes according to a Delphic oracle.

When he died in 1138, the princes again aimed at checking royal power ; accordingly they did not elect Lothair's favoured heir, his son-in-law Henry the Proud of the Welf family, but Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen family, close relatives of the Salians, leading to over a century of strife between the two houses.

" When Magyars came to Pannonia in the 8th century, the Szeklers joined them, and together they conquered Pannonia ( today Hungary ).

When it did come, in the second half of the century, it was Lowland Scotland that received the benefits.