1800 The population of the world is about one billion. Worcestershire Sauce invented. James Ross discovers the magnetic North Pole. Pius VI becomes Pope. Thomas Jefferson elected US President. Alessandro Volta invents the voltaic cell. 1801 Kingdom of Etruria founded by Napoleon in Tuscany. Thomas Young publishes proof of the principle of interference of light, [...]
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1751 The Encyclopedie published in France, planned by publisher Andre Le Breton, co-operating with some of the most eminent scholars of his time: mathematician Jean D’Alembert; writer and philosopher Denis Diderot; social critic Jean-Jacques Rousseau; essayist Voltaire; and financier Jacques Necker. (17 volumes were published from 1751 to 1765; and 11 volumes of illustration plates [...]
1700 World population 700 million. Beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Act of Resumption in Ireland. 1701 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius devises the centigrade temperature scale. Jethro Tull invents the seed drill, a mechanical drill pulled by a horse to plant rows of seeds. Act of Settlement in England. 1702 French Huguenot rebellion. 1703 St Petersburg [...]
1650 Otto von Guericke invents an air pump. Anne Bradstreet becomes the first published American woman writer with The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. 1652 The Dutch establish a settlement in Cape Town, South Africa. These settlers would become the first people to be called “Africans” – the black peoples on the continent [...]
1600 Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan. Tokyo, called Edo, made capital of Japan by Ieyasu. 1603 Galileo Galilei improves the telescope. King James I of Scotland becomes king over England and Scotland. 1605 Guy Fawkes caught while trying to blow up the English Parliament. 1606 The Union Jack adopted in England. 1607 [...]
1500 World population 400 million. 1501 First flush toilets. 1502 Coiled springs invented. 1503 Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa. Michelangelo sculpts the David (finished in 1504). First handkerchief used in Europe. 1506 The building of St Peter’s Basilica started in Rome under Pope Julius II. The idea of a church for the [...]
1400 First golf balls made. The spinet, a small piano, invented. 1410 The earliest known English carol written by Ritson in 1410. 1412 Joan of Arc born in France. 1415 Execution of Jan Hus, Czech religious reformer, who lectured on the philosophy of Aristotle and John Wycliffe and believed that there was “but little of [...]
1300 Beginning of the Renaissance. Money from Florence, Italy becomes the first international currency. Corsets for women introduced. 1302 Romeo and Juliet marries, according to Shakespeare. They were 14 years old. 1306 Expulsion of Jews from France – they were expelled several times during the century. 1311 The world’s first history, The Great Universal History, [...]
1200 Buttons invented to decorate clothing. The sport polo introduced by Persians. Fourth Crusade (till 1204). 1202 Leonardo of Pisa publishes the Book of the Abacus explaining the Hindu-Arabic system to Europeans. The system was devised by Musa al-Kwarizmi in the 8th century. (Positional Base Notation and The Zero and The Point and Negative Numbers [...]
1100 Latin Kingdom established by Crusaders, protected by Knights of St John the Hospitaller 1107 Chinese money printed in 3 colors to stop counterfeit. 1111 Henry V crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Paschal II. 1119 Knights Templar Order established in Jerusalem. 1122 Concordat of Worms, the Pactum Calixtinum. 1123 First Lateran Council. 1124 Honorius [...]
