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Dummer, Jeremiah
Dummer, Jeremiah (c.1679–1739),colonial agent for Massachusetts and Connecticut, wrote a closely reasoned Defence of the New England Charters (1721) to answer the Parliamentary attacks of the time. He was instrumental in persuading Elihu Yale to contribute to the college then named for him.... 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
Karlskrona
Karlskrona , city (1990 pop. 31,100), capital of Blekinge co., SE Sweden, on the Baltic Sea. It is a seaport and fishing center with a large modern port. The city has been the headquarters of the Swedish navy since 1679 and has many service-connected industries. Manufactures include ships, plastics,... Read more
Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell 1679-1718, Irish poet, b. Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was archdeacon of Clogher from 1706. He was a friend of Pope and Swift and a member of the Scriblerus Club. His poems, published posthumously by Pope, include "The Night-Piece on Death" and "Hymn to Conte... Read more
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers 1679?-1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708-9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernández islands. He later (1717) leased the Bahama islands and served as the first governor the... Read more
Treaty of Ryswick
Treaty of Ryswick 1697, the pact that ended the War of the Grand Alliance . Its signers were France on one side and England, Spain, and the Netherlands on the other. It was a setback for Louis XIV , who kept Strasbourg but lost most other conquests made after 1679. Commercial concessions were gra... Read more
Washington Island
Washington Island c.20 sq mi (50 sq km), NE Wis., in NW Lake Michigan, just off the northern tip of the Door Peninsula. The island was visited by the French explorers Pierre Radisson (1657) and Robert La Salle (1679). It has a large Icelandic settlement and is a resort area. ... Read more
Zabdiel Boylston
Zabdiel Boylston 1679-1766, American physician, b. Brookline, Mass. He was privately educated in medicine and settled in Boston. In an epidemic of smallpox in 1721 he was persuaded by Cotton Mather to inoculate, thus introducing the practice to the United States. Beginning with his son and two slav... Read more
Thomas Tenison
Thomas Tenison , 1636-1715, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury (1695-1715). In 1680 he became rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London; there he came into prominence as a preacher and as an author, and he founded a free library. He was consecrated bishop of Lincoln in 1691 and was named a... Read more
Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole , 1625-95, French Jansenist writer. He studied and taught at Port-Royal abbey, the center of Jansenism (see under Jansen, Cornelis ). One of his pupils there was Racine. He worked with Pascal on the Provinciales. His chief writings in his mission of popularizing Jansenism were two s... Read more

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Wolff, Christian (1679–1754)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World WOLFF, CHRISTIAN (1679 – 1754) WOLFF, CHRISTIAN (1679 – 1754), German philosopher. Born on 24 January 1679 in predominantly Catholic Breslau, Silesia (now Wroc ł aw, Poland), the son of a Lutheran tanner...
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World HOBBES, THOMAS (1588 – 1679) HOBBES, THOMAS (1588 – 1679), English philosopher. Thomas Hobbes, perhaps the greatest of the English philosophers, was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in 1588. The son of the disreputable...
Dryden, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Avenant ), and Troilus and Cressida (1679), reveal Dryden's considerable interest...Buckingham , and physically assaulted in 1679, possibly at the instigation of Rochester...greatly. Three plays, The Duke of Guise (1679, written with N. Lee ), Mr Limberham...
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, 1st earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...designated Whig , dominated the three Parliaments of 1679 to 1681. On Danby's fall (1679) Shaftesbury became president of the privy council...claims of the duke of Monmouth . Again dismissed (1679), he continued the fight for exclusion until...
Frederick William
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Baltic during a war with Sweden from 1675 to 1679. In 1680 two chartered ships established...Treaty of Nijmegen returned it to Sweden in 1679. Frustrated by his allies, he reversed...policy once more and allied with France in 1679, sitting by quietly while Louis XIV established...
Holy Leagues
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...x2013; 1540, 1571 – 1573, and 1679 – 1699 because they were all...participants. THE HOLY LEAGUE IN THE LONG WAR (1679 – 1699) After a few other attempts...against the Turks, the Holy League of 1679 – 1699 was the most successful...
Exclusion crisis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...Exclusion crisis. A period of intense political strife during 1679–81 generated by the attempt to bar Charles II's...king and government. In the three parliaments called between 1679 and 1681 discontented ‘Whig’ groups exploited...
James VII
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...James from the succession. This issue dominated three parliaments in 1679, 1680, and 1681. James feared that Charles would abandon his right, especially when he was exiled in 1679 and 1680, but the king resisted all Whig pressure and after concluding...
Thomas Hobbes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the central figures of British empiricism. His...this is the true philosopher's stone." He died on Dec. 4, 1679, at the age of 91. His Philosophy The diverse intellectual...
John Maurice of Nassau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography John Maurice of Nassau John Maurice of Nassau (1604-1679) was a Dutch military officer whose rise to power paralleled...Maurice governor of Cleves. He died in Cleves on Nov. 20, 1679. Further Reading Information on the life of John Maurice is...

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Guarini, Guarino
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...ades of the Collegio di Nobili, Turin (1679–83), clearly owe a debt to...Borromini; while the Palazzo Carignano (also 1679–83) was influenced by Bernini...Maria, Altötting, Prague (1679), while his project for Santa Maria della...
Zuccalli, Enrico
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...favour of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel (1679–1704; 1715–26...tting, which, although building ceased in 1679, introduced modern Roman Baroque ecclesiastical...Residenz (Seat of the Court—1679–1701—destroyed...
Bing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Bing a heap or pile, particularly of metallic substances. Examples: bing of alum, 1679; of lead ore [eight hundred-weight], 1679; of metallic ore [eight hundred-weight], 1679; of stones, 1513.
Largillière
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...painter, mainly of portraits. He spent his youth in Antwerp and from 1675 to 1679 he worked in England, assisting Lely and Verrio . After settling in Paris in 1679 he soon established his position as a leading portraitist, rivalled only by Rigaud...
La Hire, Philippe De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s influence, even though La Hire, in a note written in 1679 and attached to a manuscript copy of the Brouillon project on...x2019; s projective ideas became known. Meanwhile, in 1679, in his Nouveaux é l é mens des sections coniques...
Purcell, Henry
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...players). He succeeded Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679. In the following year he pubd. the superb Fantasias for strs...multi , motet; Jubilate Deo in D (1694); Let God arise (1679); Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G minor; My Beloved Spake...
Exclusion crisis
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Exclusion crisis A period of intense political strife during 1679–81 generated by the attempt to bar Charles II's...revelations of a Popish plot . In the three parliaments called between 1679 and 1681 discontented ‘Whig’ groups exploited...
Largillière, Nicolas de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...painter, mainly of portraits. He spent his youth in Antwerp and from 1675 to 1679 he worked in England, assisting Lely and Verrio . After settling in Paris in 1679 he soon established his position as a leading portraitist, rivalled only by Rigaud...
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...minister. MP for Helston (1668–79) and St Mawes (1679–81), Godolphin was created baron (1684) and earl...politician, who held the offices of a lord of the Treasury (1679), secretary of state for the northern department (1684...
Dalencé, Joachim
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...liaison between the French Academy and Huygens. Beginning in 1679 he published anonymously the first six collections of the Connaisance...avec les eclipses pour l ’ ann é e (Paris, 1679 – 1684); Trait é de l ’ aiman...

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'Job Killer' AB 1679 Will Cost Thousands of Californians Access to Jobs and Fuel Underground Economy.
Business Wire; 9/28/2001; 700+ words ; ...underground economy if Gov. Davis signs AB 1679, a group of small contractors and members...temporary staffing industry said today. AB 1679 (Shelley, D-San Francisco) requires...little notice. The current version of AB 1679 didn't have a public hearing until 11...
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): Leben und Werk.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): Leben und Werk. By LOTHAR NOACK...begun in 1984, opens with a reprint of the 1679 edition of the poems posthumously published...and ancient Britons in the preface to the 1679 projected edition of his works, here analysed...
Search could lead to sunken treasure Team hopes to claim ship that disappeared in 1679
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 2/26/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Salle -- that disappeared in mystery in 1679. "It caught my attention and imagination...33 percent probability of dating back to 1679. Demel said even without overwhelming...had set sail from Niagara on Aug. 7, 1679, and journeyed across Lake Erie before...
Security Council endorses African Union decision on need for concrete steps in transition to United Nations operation in Darfur; Adopted unanimously, resolution 1679 (2006) also calls for dispatch of joint technical assessment mission to troubled region.
M2 Presswire; 5/17/2006; 700+ words ; ...Darfur; Adopted unanimously, resolution 1679 (2006) also calls for dispatch of joint...today. By unanimously adopting resolution 1679 (2006) under Chapter VII of the United...Charter, as the context of resolution 1679 (2006) clearly was not consistent with...
Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Menage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...of Letters: The Menage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692. Ed. by Richard G. Maber. (Studies in the History...to promote his work outside France, he wrote in the spring of 1679 to a fellow classicist, Johann-Georg Grafe, or Graevius...
1679, a very good year for Madeira
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/10/1999; ; 501 words ; ...found the world's oldest bottle of wine, still sealed and with a very dry Madeira well preserved inside. It dates from around 1679 and was discovered during excavations of the wine cellar of a senior military officer based in east London. Before the discovery...
Justice et religion en Languedoc au temps de l'Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679).
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679). By Stephane Capot. Memoires et Documents de l'Ecole des...Castres from 1579 until the termination of this judicial venture in 1679. Capot's study is the first major reexamination of the Castres...
Johann von Baillou (1679-1758). (The History of Mineralogy: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...and other physical properties of minerals. Following Francois' death, Baillou served in the court of his brother, Antonio (1679-1731), who succeeded him. Baillou designed a remarkable architectural wonder known as the Magic Grotto of Colorno and its...
Jan Dismas Zelenka: (16th October 1679-22nd-23rd December 1745).(profiles)
Magazine article from: Czech Music; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Dismas Zelenka and His Style of Composition The aesthetic qualities and value of the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (16th October 1679 Lounovice pod Blanikem--night of the 22nd to 23rd of December 1745 Dresden) were all but unknown to modern musical life for...
News brief - 2002; 2002; 1679
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor; 9/8/2005; 232 words ; ...Concord High School. The exercise involves 150 emergency workers from various agencies and will help improve the city's response to a mass casualty incident, according to Lt. Bob Barry.1679 New Hampshire is declared a separate royal colony.