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the 30 years war begins
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time intervened. -
first blood transfusion
The first reported transfusion was between 1666 and 1667 with animal blood transfused to humans. In the early 1800s, human-to-human transfusion was developed. -
Denis Pamplin invents the pressure cooker
The first pressure cooker was introduced by Denis Papin in 1679. He called it the “steam digester.” It used steam pressure to increase the boiling point of water and as a result cook faster.