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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare writes Hamlet. Othello, King Lear and Macbeth are also completed around this time.
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Jamestown
JamestownEngland plants 105 colonists in Virginia at a new settlement called Jamestown. Within the first decade, the colony simply struggled to survive. Later, howerver, tobacco was known to be able to be grown in Virginia, turning it into a "gold rush" of tobacco, earning huge profits for England.
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo discovered four of Jupiter's satellites. He also discovered that the Milky Way was made up of millions of stars.
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Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton begins his most ambitious work: The 30,000-line geographical history poem Poly-Olbion. Completed in 1622
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John Webster
John Webster's dark tragedy, The Dutchess of Malfi, is first performed. This play is regarded as the paramount 17th-century English Tragedy apart from those of Shakespeare.
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Rene Descartes
His book "Meditations of First Philosophy" was considered the text book of philosophy. Descartes met Isaac Beekman who encouraged him to take up science as a profession. -
Thomas Middleton
Middleton writes one of his two tragic masterpieces: The Changeling. He wrote this with the help of William Rowley.
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John Locke
He was a English philosopher and was influential to enlightment thinkers.He is important to the social contract theory.HIs conceopt of theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern concepts of identity and the self.He died in october of 1704. -
Pierre Fermat
Pierre Fermat was a lawyer by day and a mathematician by night. He had a hand in inventing calculus along with Sir Isaac Newton.
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Margaret Cavendish
One of Cavendish's many eclectic poetry collections, Poems and Fancies, is published. She was a philospher, eassayist, and playwright.
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Sir Isaac Newton
Newton discovered calculus between 1665 and 1667 after his university was closed down. He did not publish any of his discoveries at the time.
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith was baptized June 5, 1723. He was a Scottish philosopher and economist who was known as the author of an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nationalists.. In his last years in Edinburg, where spent as a government official-the commisioner of customs, Adam Smith died in 1790 -
Benajmin Franklin
Franklin was the first to document electrical properties as negative and postives. He published his first book in 1733. -
The American Revolution.
Beginning in 1775, the American Revolution was a war between Great Britian and their colonies in the United States. The war ended with the United States being independant from Great Britian
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Constitutional Convention
The United States Constitution was created for the newly Independant US Colonies. Created laws and rules without exceeding the revolutionary principle.
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
More information on GaussGauss was considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He discovered many thereoms and laws at the young age of 15.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a purchase of a massive chunk of land to the west of the United States between the US and France. This purchase allowed colonists to move further west across the country in search for new land to settle.
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Michael Faraday
More information on FaradayFaraday worked as Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution. He bagan his research under Humphry Davy and made many discoveries in the field of science.
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Stockton & Darlington Railway
World's first railway opens in England. Railroads allow cheaper transport of bulk goods and animates resource frontiers around the world.
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Augustin Louis Cauchy
More information on CauchyCauchy came second to Euler in his terms of productivity. He filled 27 books with his discoveries.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
He made the first concept of the periodic table, and using this table he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
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British Settles in New Zealand
This systematic British settlement led to the decline of the Maori population. They also introduced many alien flora and fauna to the islands.
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Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
More information on Lord KelvinKelvin began a university at the age of ten and began taking college courses at the age of 14. he applied math to a heat scale and eventually had a temperature scale named after him.
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Auk Extinction
The Great Auk, a flightless bird, is drove to extinction in its home in Iceland. This bird is a useful source of food to many sailors.
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Sheep Run Loose
First major sheep runs open in New Zealand's South Island. This causes major changes in vegatation and land use.
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California Gold Rush
California Gold Rush was a time when people from all over the country came to California in search of gold. This period lasted from 1848-1855. Many people came but only a few acutally found gold.
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Franklin Pierce
Pierce proclaimed an era of peace and prosperity at home. He purchased the area now comprising southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico for $10,000,000.
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Charles Darwin
In 1858, Darwin and Alferd Russel Wallace discovered simialr theories. They raced to publish their books, and Darwin came out on top by selling his first book November 22, 1859. -
Rinderpest
Rinderpest, a lethal cattle disease breaks out in Ethiopia and spreads throughout East and South Africa. The disease kills 95 percent of all cattle.
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Benjamin Harrison
Harrison was elected president in 1889. He established the Pan American Union.
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Marie Curie
Curie recieved a Nobel Prize for her research in radiation. In 1911, she received her second Nobel Prize for chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was best known for his Theory of Relativity. He wrote a paper in 1905 titled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"
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Jean-Paul Sartre
He was a French philosopher, playwrighter, novalist, political activist, and lots more. He was a leading figure in Marxism.He was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1964. -
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet was born Aug. 30, 1930. He is successful in the area of business, investor,financier, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world. According to Forbes Magazine he is the third richest person in the world, having a networth of a little over $50 billion.
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The Scottsboro Trial
On March 25, 1931, 9 black boys were charged with the rape of two white females. The trial lasted for two decades. -
Carlos Slim
Born January 28th, 1940, Slim is the world's wealthiest man, with a staggering worth of $74,000,000,000, Slim was raised in Mexico City, Mexico, and has 6 children. -
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump was born June 14th, 1946 to Fred Trump and Mary Trump. He's worth as of 2011 $2.7 Billion. He has many businesses as well as a TV Show, The Apprentice, which airs on NBC.
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Oprah Winfrey
She was born on January 19, 1954. She was success in the business of television. She had her own talk show called Oprah. At one point she was the richest women in the world and she is very influential. She has the president of the United States by his ear
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Bill Gates
Born October 28, 1955, Bill Gates is named one of the wealthiest people in the world. Co-founder of Mircosoft, a multi-billion dollar company, Gates is no longer an executive chairman but still works at Mircosoft.
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George H. W. Bush
Bush pledged a "moment rich with promise." In 1992, he lost his Presidential Re-election to Bill Clinton. -
Casey Anthony Trial
In 2008, Anthony was charged witht he murder of her daughter, Caylee. The trial began in 2011, and she was released to go back to her Florida home without probation.
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States and is currently the president, He changed the way some people look at the government by being the first black president of the United States of America.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
He was the father of modern political theory. He wrote a book called 'The Prince'. He was a high level statesman in Florence. -
Congress Women Gabriella Giffords
She represents the state of Arizona. She She was campaigning one day and was shot in the head by a person in the crowd.After she recovered she came back to the house and voted in an election. She was then welcomed back with a astanding ovation.
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer was an Australian ethical and political philosopher known for his works in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement. He is still alive today.
