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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Water Tiger壬寅( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo辛丑)

Syria: 1973 /74 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 4.1 Date of Death
  • 4.2 More death unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Asia

Europe

  • February 6: The Treaty of Montmartre with Duke Charles IV of the French king Louis XIV gained influence over the Duchy of Lorraine.
  • MAY 31: The English King Charles II married Catherine of Braganza. As a Catholic, she is not crowned Queen of England.
  • October 27: The English King Charles II sells Dunkirk for five million livres to the ruled by Louis XIV in France.
  • A famine in France leads to unsuccessful uprisings. Around the same time begins the expansion of the Palace of Versailles.

America

  • The town of Milton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts is founded.
  • The New Haven Colony was combined with the Colony of Connecticut.

Science and Technology

  • Robert Boyle published his Nova experimenta physico- mechanica that contains the law on gases that at a fixed temperature, the product of pressure and volume is a constant.
  • John Graunt analyzed in his book Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, the London mortality directories and thus lays the foundation for the modern statistics.
  • The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg is founded.
  • Joan Blaeu in Amsterdam begins with the publication of his Atlas Maior, a elfbändigen world atlas with 594 maps.
  • '' Atlas Maior ''

Lapland, Northern Cape, Hammerfest

Venice

United Kingdom

Culture

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