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Recent Event Highlights: Peter the Great dies at sea, Anders Celsius devises Celsius scale of temperature, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine, Evangelista Torricelli, an Itallian scientist, publishes his theory on the barometer, Galileo studies the heavans; Kepler formulates the Laws of Planetary Motion, Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, invents the telescope, and 48 more...

Created by aaallain on Sep 17, 2010

Last updated: 03/23/11 at 10:11 AM

Tags: early modern education

• Peter the Great dies at sea
  2011

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great

• Anders Celsius devises Celsius scale of temperature
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Celsius

• Carl Linnaeus classifies plants and animals
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

• Edmund Halley predicts return of a commet (in 1758)
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Halley

• Christiaan Huygens builds a pendulum clock
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Huygens

• Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

• Evangelista Torricelli, an Itallian scientist, publishes his theory on the barometer
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelista_Torricelli

• René Descartes' Analytical Geometry explained
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes

• Académie Française founded
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academie_Francaise

• William Harvey discovers blood circulation
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey

• Galileo studies the heavans; Kepler formulates the Laws of Planetary Motion
  2010

  Kepler link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler Galileo link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

• Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, invents the telescope
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Lippershey

• Spain finally accepts Dutch independence
  2010

• Portugaul and its empire separate from Spain
  2010

• Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain
  2010

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Sep 17, 2010 11:42 AM

• Charles I is exucuted by Parliment
  Sep 17, 2010 10:49 AM

• The English Civil Wars begins
  Sep 17, 2010 10:42 AM

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

• Charles recalls Parliment-clashes follow
  Sep 17, 2010 10:40 AM

• Charles's court splits after a crisis
  Sep 17, 2010 10:37 AM

• Charles closes Parliment
  Sep 17, 2010 10:29 AM

• Charles I becomes king
  Sep 17, 2010 10:25 AM

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England

• James again disagrees with Paraliment
  Sep 17, 2010 10:21 AM

• James disagrees with Paraliment over money
  Sep 17, 2010 10:08 AM

• The Gunpowder Plot to blow up Paraliment
  Sep 17, 2010 10:05 AM

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gunpowder_Plot

• Robert Fulton invents and rides the Steam boat trip
  1807

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fulton

• Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
  1794

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney

• Thomas William Coke started selective breeding of livestock
  Jul 1, 1780

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester_(seventh_creation)

• James Watt and Mathew Boston invents engines to power machines
  1774

• Thomas Arkwright invents spinning mill factory
  1773

• Nicolas Cugnot invents steam-powered vehicle for French Army
  1769

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cugnot

• James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny (multi-thread)
  1764

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hargreaves

• Josiah Wedgwood opens up the Wedgwood porcelain company
  1759

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wedgwood

• The Seven Year's War
  Jul 1, 1756

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year%27s_War

• King George's War
  Jul 1, 1744

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George%27s_War

• John Kay invents mechanic textile machines
  1730

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kay_%28flying_shuttle%29

• Lord "Turnip" Townshend invented 4-crop rotation
  1730

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_Townshend

• John Kay invents mechanic textile machines
  1730

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kay_%28flying_shuttle%29

• Thomas Newcomen invents the steam engine
  1712

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Newcomen

• Abraham Darby invents the blast furnace
  1709

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Darby_I

• St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great
  May 27, 1703

  New capital of Russia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg

• St. St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great
  May 27, 1703

  New capital of Russia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg

• St. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great
  May 27, 1703

  New capital of Russia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg

• Queen Anne's War
  Jul 1, 1702

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_War

• Jethro Tull invents the seed plow
  1701

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)

• The War of the Spanish Succession- Spain loses possensions in Italy, Belgium, and Gibraltar
  Jul 1, 1701

• Phillip V of Anjou is the first Bourbon King of Spain.
  Jul 1, 1700

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_of_Anjou

• Peter I fights "Northern War" with Sweden
  Jul 1, 1700

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War

• Peter toured England
  1697

• Peter claimed port of Azov from the Turks
  1695