Thought some people maybe interested. This is interesting stuff.
Jerry Eakle
1660-1685 :
Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from before birth until age 19
1666 :
1st Armenian Bible printed at age 0
1666 :
Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000 buildings burned at age 0
1668 :
Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 2
1675-1676 :
<A
HREF="http://www.ourtimelines.com/zkphil.html">King Phillip's
War from age 9 to 10</A>
1678 :
Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 12
1679 :
Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 13
1680 :
Dodo becomes extinct at age 14
1681 :
Pennsylvania founded at age 15
1682 :
Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 16
1683 :
Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 17
1684 :
Street lighting introduced in London at age 18
1687 :
Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 21
1688 :
Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 22
1689-1702 :
Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 23 to 36
1692 :
The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 26
1700-1721 :
<A
HREF="http://www.ourtimelines.com/znorthe.html">Great Northern War
from age 34 to 55</A>
1701 :
Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 35
1701-1713 :
<A
HREF="http://www.ourtimelines.com/zwasp.html">War of Spanish
Succession from age 35 to 47</A>
1702-1714 :
Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 36 to 48
1707 :
Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 41
1712 :
Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 46
1712 :
Slave revolts in New York at age 46
1714 :
Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 48
1714 :
Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 48
1714-1727 :
Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 48 to 61
1716 :
Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 50
1718 :
Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 52
1718 :
Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 52
1718 :
New Orleans founded at age 52
1721 :
Rifles brought to America by the Swiss at age 55
1722 :
Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch at age 56
1727 :
Quakers demand abolition of slavery at age 61
1727-1760 :
Reign of King George II (Hanover) from age 61 until after timeline
1729 :
Opium smoking prohibited in China at age 63
1733-1735 :
<A
HREF="http://www.ourtimelines.com/zwapo.html">War of Polish
Succession from age 67 to 69</A>
1736 :
English statutes against witchcraft repealed at age 70
1740-1748 :
<A
HREF="http://www.ourtimelines.com/zaustws.html">Austrian war of the
succession from age 74 to 82</A>
1741 :
Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising at age 75
1742 :
Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer at age 76
1743 :
1st settlement in S. Dakota at age 77
1745 :
Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar) at age 79
1749 :
Sign Language for deaf-mutes at age 83
1752 :
Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender at age 86
1752 :
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod at age 86