| John Williams of Haverhill |
| Generation: | 0 |
| Born: | April 18th, 1647 |
| Died: | --- |
| Father: | Unknown |
| Mother: | Unknown |
| Occupation(s): | --- |
| Marriages: | • ? (?) Williams |
| Children: | Joseph Williams |
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John Williams |
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1231-1808 Papal Inquisition 1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition 1618-1648 30 years war 1625-1649 Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) 1642-1649 English Civil War 1649-1660 Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) 1650 World pop. est. at 500 million 1650 Chattel slavery officially recognized 1652-1654 Anglo-Dutch war 1652 Air Pump invented 1654 Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat 1655 Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England 1657 Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo 1657 First Stockings 1660-1685 Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) 1660 British Navigation Acts restrict commerce 1660 Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton 1661 Manometer 1664 English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired 1664-1665 Great Plague in London kills 68,596 1665 Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) 1666 Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned 1666 1st Armenian Bible printed 1668 Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope 1675-1676 King Phillips War 1678 Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) 1679 Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment 1680 Dodo becomes extinct 1681 Pennsylvania founded 1682 Appearance of Halleys Comet 1683 Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation 1684 Street lighting introduced in London 1687 Newton publishes his Laws of Motion 1688 Plate glass cast for 1st time 1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) 1692 The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA 1700-1721 Great Northern War 1701 Captain William Kidd hung for piracy 1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession 1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) 1707 Mount Fujiyama erupts 1712 Slave revolts in New York 1712 Last execution for witchcraft in England 1714 Farenheit invents mercury thermometer 1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover) 1714 Witch trials abolished in Prussia 1716 Christian teaching forbidden in China 1718 Peter the Great has son and heir murdered 1718 Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) 1718 New Orleans founded 1721 Rifles brought to America by the Swiss 1722 Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch 1727 Quakers demand abolition of slavery 1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover) 1729 Opium smoking prohibited in China 1733-1735 War of Polish Succession 1736 English statutes against witchcraft repealed 1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession 1741 Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising 1742 Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer 1743 1st settlement in S. Dakota 1745 Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar) |
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