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Placentia
Placentia , town (1991 pop. 1,954), SE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on Placentia Bay. The town was founded by the French in 1662 as Plaisance and was the French headquarters on Newfoundland until 1713. ... Read more
John Gauden
John Gauden , 1605-62, English clergyman. He claimed to have written the Eikon Basilike (1649), a tract in defense of Charles I. After the Restoration, Gauden was bishop of Exeter (1660-62) and of Worcester (1662). ... Read more
Sir William Petty
Sir William Petty 1623-87, English statistician and physician. He was a founder of the Royal Society and was physician general to the army of Ireland in 1652. Petty's survey of the Irish estates appropriated by Oliver Cromwell, begun in 1654 and carried out in 13 months, was the first attempt at sc... Read more
Michael Wigglesworth
Michael Wigglesworth 1631-1705, American clergyman and poet, b. England, grad. Harvard, 1651. His family emigrated to New England in 1638. A devoted minister at Malden, Mass., he also practiced medicine and wrote didactic poetry. His Day of Doom (1662), a ballad of Puritan theology, was extremely... Read more
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley 1662-1742, English critic and philologist. Generally considered the greatest of English classical scholars, he was largely responsible for raising standards of textual criticism in the work of his many followers. His Dissertation upon The Epistles of Phalaris (1699), an exposure... Read more
Donald Cargill
Donald Cargill 1619?-1681, Scottish Covenanter . He was a minister in Glasgow from c.1655 until 1662, when he was expelled for denouncing the Restoration and resisting the establishment of the episcopacy in Scotland. After escaping wounded from the battle of Bothwell Bridge (1679), he joined Richa... Read more
Pietro Francesco Cavalli
Pietro Francesco Cavalli , 1602-76, Italian composer, whose real name was Caletti-Bruni; pupil of Monteverdi, whom he succeeded as choirmaster of St. Mark's, Venice. He wrote many operas, including Didone (1641), Giasone (1649), Serse (1654), and Ercole Amante (1662), all of which show the f... Read more
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller 1608-61, English clergyman and author. He was an able preacher and a noted wit. He adhered to the royalist cause during the civil war and the Commonwealth and served briefly as a royal chaplain. He is best known for his posthumously published Worthies of England (1662), an invaluabl... Read more
Kristiansand
Kristiansand , city (1995 pop. 68,618), capital of Vest-Agder co., S Norway, a commercial and passenger port on the Skagerrak. Manufactures include ships, textiles, metal and wood products, canned fish, and beer. The city was founded (1641) by Christian IV and became an episcopal see in 1682. Its Ch... Read more
Henry Lawes
Henry Lawes , 1596-1662, English composer. Both he and his brother William were prominent musician-composers, and Henry served the royal family in various capacities until the civil war. As music tutor in the family of the Earl of Bridgewater, he became acquainted with the great poets of the time. H... Read more

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Mompesson, John (ca. 1662)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Mompesson, John (ca. 1662) Magistrate at Tedworth, Wiltshire, England, in 1661 whose home was disturbed by poltergeist phenomena. (See Drummer of Tedworth )
Mather, Increase (1639-1723) and Cotton(1662-1728)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Mather, Increase (1639-1723) and Cotton(1662-1728) Father and son, two eminent divines of Boston, Massachusetts. The Mathers were among the first to respond to the wave...
Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World PASCAL, BLAISE (1623 – 1662) PASCAL, BLAISE (1623 – 1662), French mathematician, scientist, religious polemicist, and apologist. Pascal was born in Clermont-en-Auvergne, where his mother died when he was three...
Hartlib, Samuel (Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600–1662)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World HARTLIB, SAMUEL (Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600 – 1662) HARTLIB, SAMUEL (Samuel Hartlieb; c. 1600 – 1662), English reformer. Samuel Hartlib was a scientific "intelligencer" who helped to place England on the map of the...
Copper Riots
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...series of riots in Moscow in the summer of 1662 in protest against an economic crisis caused...1654 was followed by a 20 percent levy in 1662. By the early 1660s, inflation got out...tsar, burst into the open on July 25, 1662. Following a meeting by discontented townsmen...
Fundamental Orders
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the Connecticut colony from 1639 to 1662, formally adopted (Jan. 14, 1639...required. The charter of Connecticut in 1662 superseded and was largely based on the...The Beginnings of Connecticut, 1632-1662 (1934).
Dissenters, English
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the Church of England as laid down in the 1662 Act of Uniformity. They were persecuted...in Tudor and Stuart England. DISSENT In 1662 the dissenters were a diverse group. English...livings on St Bartholomew's Day, 24 August 1662, and yet still attended the Church of...
Solomon Stoddard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...born in Boston in September 1643. He graduated from Harvard in 1662. He became the college's first librarian (1667-1674...the Puritan "Half-way Covenant," approved by the Synod of 1662, but soon came to feel it inconsistent to deny Communion to...
Michael Wigglesworth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...27, 1705. In the long ballad, The Day of Doom, written in 1662, Wigglesworth attempted to make Christ's judgment vivid to...read, heard about, or owned this electrifying piece. Also in 1662, a year of severe drought, he wrote a poetic interpretation...
Blaise Pascal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Pascal The French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a precocious and influential mathematical writer, a master...increasingly after 1658 from head pains, and he died on Aug. 19, 1662. At his death Pascal left an unfinished theological work, the...

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Croone, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...muscular action and embryology. “ On 4 June 1662 Mr. Croune [ sic ] presented two embryos of puppy...Boyle, who was experimenting with alcohol before 1662. There are later reports (1662 – 1664) recording observations on developing...
Graunt, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...After the publication of his only book in January 1662, Graunt was elected, at the request of Charles II...Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality (London, 1662; 2nd ed., 1662; 3rd ed., 1665; 4th ed., Oxford, 1665; 5th ed...
Common Prayer, The Book of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...1645), but after the Restoration, the 1662 Act of Uniformity authorized a BCP revised...AV for the Epistles and Gospels. This 1662 Book remained almost unchanged until modern...American BCP of 1789. Elsewhere the English 1662 Book was used until the Church of Ireland...
New Haven Colony
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History NEW HAVEN COLONY NEW HAVEN COLONY. Between 1638 and 1662, the New Haven Colony was an independent entity, separate and...left Connecticut for London to secure a charter. He did that in 1662, bringing home a charter that included title to New Haven...
Escholt, Mikkel Pedersön
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...science of the earth. Through an English translation of his book (1662), the word came into use in the scientific literature in the...work is his Geologia norvegica (Oslo, 1657; English trans., 1662). A facsimile ed. was published in 1957. II. Secondary Literature...
Charles II
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...tried to give effect to it in the Declarations of Indulgence of 1662 and 1672. The sentiment of the country was, however, exclusively Anglican and led to the passing of the Act of Uniformity (1662), the Conventicles Act (1664), the Five Mile Act (1665...
Licensing Act
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Licensing Act, 1662. A feature of the Commonwealth period was the unprecedented proliferation of pamphlets and broadsheets. In 1662 Charles II's government moved to curb them, 13 & 14 Car. II c. 33 condemning ‘the general...
Gerbier, Sir Balthazar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...concerning the Three Chief Principles of Magnificent Building (1662) and Counsel and Advise to All Builders (1663). The large Jacobean house at Hampstead Marshall, Berks. (started 1662, and completed in 1688 by William Winde ), was remodelled...
Colonial Assemblies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1651 placed on commerce. When Berkeley returned to power in 1662, he failed to call elections and retained the old assembly until...assembly. The latter feature continued under the charter of 1662, although in the mid-eighteenth century it disappeared in...
Montanari, Geminiano
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...appointment was a brief one — Alfonso IV died in July 1662 — but during this time, he met Cornelio Malvasia...volume of, ephemerides covering 1661 – 1666 (Modena, 1662). Montanari left the court of Modena with him and, went to...

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Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662-1938.(Review)
Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938 contains the fascinating stories...series social analysis by John Graunt in 1662. Part 2 focuses on the "frozen history...and the great plagues (Chapter 2; circa 1662) is the highlight. I also found the secrecy...
Wage Board unanimously fixes minimum wage for garment workers at Tk 1662.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 10/5/2006; 700+ words ; ...export-oriented garment industry at Tk 1662.50, sinking owner-worker differences...for the workers at grade seven will be Tk 1662.50, Tk 1851 at grade six, Tk 2046 at...with the decision of minimum wage at Tk 1662.50. After the meeting, workersa' representative...
Security Council extends Afghanistan mission for 12 months, unanimously adopting resolution 1662 (2006).
M2 Presswire; 3/24/2006; 700+ words ; ...months, unanimously adopting resolution 1662 (2006)(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...building. Unanimously adopting resolution 1662 (2006), the Council also called on all...Resolution The full text of resolution 1662 (2006) reads as follows: "The Security...
Le reseau du Canada. Etude du monde migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662). .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662). Gervais Carpin. Sillery: Editions...seigneury of the colony to the Crown in 1662, is based on the research for his doctoral...appear to require some explanation. That by 1662 only some 3,000 French were living in...
Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729. By L. H. Roper. (New York and other cities: Palgrave...s Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 is a fresh look at politics in early South Carolina that...
Ireland's Huguenots and their refuge, 1662-1745; an unlikely haven.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 464 words ; 1902210786 Ireland's Huguenots and their refuge, 1662-1745; an unlikely haven. Hylton, Raymond. Sussex Academic...attention to the Ormondite Huguenots who reached Ireland between 1662 and 1692, religious disagreement within the Huguenot refuge...
Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 2/1/2007; ; 689 words ; Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729. By L. H. Roper. (New York and other cities: Palgrave...s Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729 is a fresh look at politics in early South Carolina that...
Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol. 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65. Ed. by ELISABETH LABROUSSE and others...Jacob Bayle and one from Vincent Minutoli) and takes us from 1662 (Jacob Bayle's departure from Le Carla for Puylaurens) to...
SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS AFGHANISTAN MISSION FOR 12 MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1662 (2006)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...next phase of State-building. Unanimously adopting resolution 1662 (2006), the Council also called on all Afghan parties and...ended at 10:09 a.m. Resolution The full text of resolution 1662 (2006) reads as follows: "The Security Council, "Recalling...
EMPIRES OF THE SUN: COLONIALISM AND CLOSURE IN LOUIS XIV'S 1662 CARROUSEL AND CYRANO'S LES ESTATS ET LES EMPIRES DU SOLEIL.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; I. On June 5th, 1662, a procession of monkeys, bears, nobles, and slaves, spiralled through...narrator of Cyrano's Les estats et les empires du Soleil, published in 1662, the year of the Carrousel.(4) If Louis's exploration of new worlds...