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Powhatan
Powhatan , d. 1618, Native North American chief of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, whose personal name was Wahunsonacock. He greatly extended the dominion of the Powhatan Confederacy and after the marriage (1614) of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe kept peace with the English colonists. ... Read more
Sir George Yeardley
Sir George Yeardley , c.1587-1627, British colonial governor of Virginia (1618-21, 1626-27). He was shipwrecked (1609) in the Bermudas but managed to reach Virginia in 1610. In 1616-17 he was acting governor of Virginia and then returned to England, where in 1618 he was appointed governor and knight... Read more
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero , 1585-1618, Dutch dramatist and poet. He is considered the major Dutch poet of his generation, particularly for his spontaneous love sonnets. The first Dutch master of comedy, Bredero was an important innovator; he drew upon classical elements as well as Renaissance mo... Read more
Giulio Caccini
Giulio Caccini , c.1546-1618, Italian composer and singer. Both he and Peri composed settings of Ottavio Rinuccini's Euridice (1600), the earliest operas of which the music is extant. Nuove musiche (1601), a collection of his madrigals and arias, is the most important collection among the early ... Read more
Edmund Gunter
Edmund Gunter 1581-1626, English mathematician and astronomer, educated at Westminster School, London, and Christ Church, Oxford. He invented (1618) a small portable quadrant and discovered (1622) the variation of the magnetic compass. His Gunter's chain is a surveyor's chain graduated on the decim... Read more
Albert of Brandenburg
Albert of Brandenburg 1490-1568, grand master of the Teutonic Knights (1511-25), first duke of Prussia (1525-68); grandson of Elector Albert Achilles of Brandenburg. In 1525 he became a Protestant, and on the advice of Martin Luther he secularized the dominions of the Teutonic Knights and becam... Read more
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg , city (1994 pop. 65,650), Bavaria, S central Germany, on the Main River. Its manufactures include clothing, machine and precision instruments, and colored paper. Once the location of a Roman garrison and later of a Frankish castle, Aschaffenburg passed to the archbishopric of Mainz in... Read more
Salomon de Brosse
Salomon de Brosse , 1571-1626, French architect, trained by his grandfather, Jacques du Cerceau, the elder. He paved the way for the next generation in the use of classicism as the style which denoted royalty. In Paris his works include the Luxembourg Palace (1615-20) built for Marie de' Medici and ... Read more
Falun
Falun , city (1990 pop. 33,256), capital of Kopparberg co., S central Sweden; chartered 1624 and again in 1641. It is the headquarters of Sweden's oldest company, the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags Aktiebolag, founded (1347) to operate the copper mines of Falun (no longer mined). The company, which hel... Read more
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña Gondomar, conde de
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña Gondomar, conde de , 1567?-1626, Spanish ambassador to England (1613-18, 1620-22). He gained great influence over James I and dissuaded him from giving real assistance to James's son-in-law, Frederick the Winter King , at the outset of the Thirty Years War . He al... Read more

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Thirty Years' War (16181648)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618 – 1648) THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618 – 1648). The Thirty Years' War was one of...thirty years between the defenestration of Prague in May 1618 and the signing of the Westphalian peace treaties in...
Mallebranche (ca. 1618)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Mallebranche (ca. 1618) Seventeenth-century Frenchman haunted by...Sainte-Genevi è ve, Paris, who in 1618 was visited by an apparition of his wife...xE9; de parler le mardi II Decembre, 1618. Paris, 1618.
Oldenburg, Henry (c. 16181677)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World OLDENBURG, HENRY (c. 1618 – 1677) OLDENBURG, HENRY (c. 1618 – 1677), secretary to the Royal Society...Henry Oldenburg was born in Bremen, Germany, around 1618. After graduating with an M.A. from the Gymnasium...
Ferdinand II (Holy Roman Empire) (15781637; Holy Roman Emperor 16191637; king of Bohemia 16171619 and 16201627; king of Hungary 16181625)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...x2013; 1619 and 1620 – 1627; king of Hungary 1618 – 1625) FERDINAND II (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1578...x2013; 1619 and 1620 – 1627; king of Hungary 1618 – 1625). Ferdinand was born in Graz to the Habsburg...
Ottoman Dynasty
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1617), Mustafa I (ruled 1617 – 1618, 1622 – 1623), Osman II (ruled 1618 – 1622), and Ibrahim (ruled 1640...1617) Mustafa I (ruled 1617 – 1618) Osman II (ruled 1618 – 1622) Mustafa...
Prague, Defenestration of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Prague triggered the Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648). During the stormy...ratifying the archbishop's order. In March 1618 a Protestant assembly protested the emperor...into Prague's Hradczyn Castle on 23 May 1618 and hurled two imperial governors, Jaroslav...
Paul V (Pope) (Camillo Borghese; 15521621; Reigned 16051621)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Calvinist princes led to renewed hostilities in 1618 after the collapse of the Religious Peace...known later as the Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648). Paul promoted Tridentine...and Papal States ; Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648) ; Venice . BIBLIOGRAPHY...
George de La Tour
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the bishopric of Metz. He was married in 1618 in Lunéville, the summer capital...establish the birth of nine children between 1618 and 1636, and other documents record the...focus on the time before his marriage in 1618 and the years between 1639 and 1643, when...
Aurangzeb
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Aurangzeb (left) Aurangzeb Aurangzeb (1618-1707) was the sixth Mogul emperor of...Mohammed Aurangzeb was born on Oct. 24, 1618, at Dohad and was the third son of Emperor...1925) and A Short History of Aurangzib 1618-1707 (1930; rev. ed. 1954). Chapters...
Lerma, Francisco Gómez De Sandoval y Rojas, 1st Duke of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the next twenty years. Until his fall in 1618, Lerma amassed enormous wealth, elevated...unprecedented power, which he capped in 1618, on the eve of his fall, by being appointed...IV, rose in prominence. In September 1618, Lerma asked permission to retire, which...

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Baranzano, Giovanni Antonio
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...iuxta Summi Pontificis mentem disputatio (1618) and was appended, where possible, to...Allobrogum, 1617; 2nd ed., Paris, 1618); Nova de motu terrae Copernicolo iuxta...mentem disputatio (Coloniae Allobrogum, 1618); Prima summae philosophicae pars, seu...
Cysat, Johann Baptist
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...assisted in the observation of sunspots. In 1618 Cysat become professor of mathematics at...he made the observations on the comet of 1618 – 1619 for which he is mainly...observations cover the interval from 1 December 1618 to 22 January 1619, and form the most...
Beeckman, Isaac
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2014; he received the M.D. from Caen in 1618 — although he never practiced it. In 1618 – 1619 Beeckman was conrector (assistant...Beeckman had first met Descartes at Breda in 1618; Descartes wrote his Compendium musicae for...
Thirty Years War
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Thirty Years War (1618–48). A series of religious and political wars fought in...the Peace of Augsburg (1555). The Bohemian Protestants rebelled in 1618 and set up Frederick V of the Palatinate in opposition to the Emp. Ferdinand...
Bramer, Benjamin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s architectural achievements. From advice he gave in 1618 to Count Christian von Waldeck, we know of a plan for construction...xFC; blich gewesen. Solviert und beschrieben (Marburg, 1618); Beschreibung eines sehr leichten Perspektiv- und Grundreissenden...
Descartes, René Du perron
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...gentleman volunteer in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau in 1618 he met Isaac Beeckman at Breda. Beeckman aroused him to self...acoustics, the subject of his first work, the Compendium musicae of 1618; published posthumously in 1650. On 26 March 1619 he reported...
Leurechon, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...quaniplurima et omnis generis horolgia brevissimo tempore (Pont- à -Mousson, 1618); and Discours sur les observations de la com é te de 1618 (paris-Rheims, 1619). His work on geometry was Selectae propositions in Iota sparism...
Maier, Michael
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Maurice, without, however, giving up his private practice. In 1618 he traveled to Stockhausen, where he attended a wealthy nobleman...landgrave ’ s library at the Frankfurt book fairs. In 1618 Maier moved to Magdeburg to become the physician of Duke Christian...
Propaganda
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...spreading Catholicism and regulating ecclesiastical affairs in heathen lands. A generation later, when the Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648) had broken out, Gregory XV in 1622 made the commission permanent, as the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda...
Bacon, Francis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...sectarian. In 1606 he married Alice Barnham. He was knighted on the accession of James I In 1603, became lord chancellor in 1618, and was made viscount St. Albans in 1621. Bacon was dismissed from the chancellorship in 1621 after being convicted of bribery...

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UAW Local 1618 -- Cars, cadillacs, and the team concept
Magazine article from: Greater Lansing Business Monthly; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; UAW Local 1618 has a track record that shows flexibility...February 17, a fire totally destroyed Local 1618's union hall located on Lansing Road near...said Tim Driver, president of Local 1618. "We've just put an agreement together...
1618 overture
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Major, the premises rebranded as Cafe 1618 and eagerly recommended by Maureen Stephenson...mean. This, at any rate, is merely the 1618 overture.A fairly short daytime menu...of the fee-fie-faux- flummery Cafe 1618, Market Place, Middleton-in-Teesdale...
0.5 pc of over Rs 1618 cr spent for Kashmiri migrants return.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 7/9/2009; 666 words ; 0.5 pc of over Rs 1618 cr spent for Kashmiri migrants return New...meagre 0.5 per cent out of the total of Rs 1618.4 crore package announced by it for the...displaced Kashmiri pandits. A package of Rs 1618.4 crore has been announced for return...
MURKOWSKI WELCOMES SPAM REPORT; URGES QUICK PASSAGE OF S. 1618
Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 7/14/1998; 441 words ; ...SPAM REPORT; URGES QUICK PASSAGE OF S. 1618 WASHINGTON - Sen. Frank Murkowski, R...of an anti-slamming provision (in S. 1618) that passed the Senate by a vote of 99...held. The Senator's provision in 3, 1618 and H.R. 3888 would outlaw header forgery...
Security Council condemns in 'Strongest Terms and Without Reservation' terrorist attacks in Iraq , unanimously adopting Resolution 1618 (2005); Affirms terrorism must not be allowed to disrupt transition, urges member states to prevent transit of terrorists to and from Iraq.
M2 Presswire; 8/5/2005; 700+ words ; ...Iraq , unanimously adopting Resolution 1618 (2005); Affirms terrorism must not be...Through the unanimous adoption of resolution 1618 (2005), submitted by the United Kingdom...51 a.m. The full text of resolution 1618 (2005) reads, as follows: "The Security...
1618 AIRLINES BY YEAR 2018
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 10/28/1999; 223 words ; AsiaInfo Services 10-28-1999 1618 Airlines by Year 2018 CHINA, October 28, AsiaPort -- It is estimated...medium-sized jet-liners. By the year 2018. China will have 1618 airliners, among which 1219 are large and medium-sized, accounting...
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Ingrano has composed a textbook on the Habsburg Monarchy from 1618-1815. A ration of 200 pages to cover 200 years prevents the...around the major crises which struck the Habsburg monarchy: 1618-20; 1683; 1740-41; 1790; 1809-10. Professor Ingrao...
Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State...sovereignty, before discussing Christian TVs initial rule prior to 1618. Only then does the author turn to explore the reasons for the...
The mastery of Michael Sweerts, 1618-1664
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...not until recently that his birthplace and date-Brussels, 1618-were ascertained. By 1996 the Dutch scholar Rolf Kultzen had...to San Francisco under a simpler title, "Michael Sweerts (1618-1664)," in June, and moved on to Hartford in October...
Daily lives of civilians in wartime Europe, 1618-1900.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 473 words ; 9780313335662 Daily lives of civilians in wartime Europe, 1618-1900. Ed. by Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey. Greenwood...war in Europe, sequentially covering the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648, Early Modern Europe of 1648-1789, the French Revolutionary...