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Chandannagar
Chandannagar or Chandernagore , city (1991 pop. 122,351), West Bengal state, E India, on the Hugli River, a suburb of Kolkata (Calcutta). Founded by the French in 1686, it was of great commercial importance until the 19th cent. It was ceded by France and became part of India in 1951. ... Read more
Chatsworth
Chatsworth estate, Derbyshire, central England, near Chesterfield. It is the seat of the dukes of Devonshire. Begun in 1552, the present Classical-style Chatsworth House was rebuilt in 1686. It has notable gardens, libraries, picture galleries, and collections of sculpture. Bibliography: See ... Read more
Jean Bart
Jean Bart , 1650-1702, French naval hero, b. Dunkirk. Of a seafaring family, he enlisted in the Dutch navy but entered French service as a privateer at the outbreak of the Dutch War (1672). In 1686 he was commissioned a navy captain. As a reward for his spectacular exploits, particularly in the War ... Read more
Hans Egede
Hans Egede , 1686-1758, Norwegian Lutheran missionary, called the Apostle of Greenland. He went to Greenland in 1721 and, with the support of the Danish government, founded a mission for the Eskimo. He also helped to initiate trade between Denmark and Greenland. He returned to Copenhagen in 1736 to ... Read more
Fort Albany
Fort Albany Canadian fur-trading post, N Ont., at the mouth of the Albany River on James Bay. It was founded (before 1682) by the Hudson's Bay Company as one of its earliest forts. In the Anglo-French struggle for the Hudson Bay trade, Fort Albany was taken by the French in 1686. It was recaptured ... Read more
David Lloyd
David Lloyd c.1656-1731, political leader in colonial Pennsylvania, b. Wales. Having been commissioned attorney general of Pennsylvania by William Penn, Lloyd arrived in Philadelphia in 1686. He later became a member of the provincial assembly, acting as its speaker and serving in the provincial co... Read more
Niccolò Antonio Porpora
Niccolò Antonio Porpora , 1686-1766, Italian composer and one of the greatest singing teachers. As an opera composer he was employed to be Handel's rival in London, but he is remembered for his vocal teaching. Metastasio and Haydn were among his pupils, as were many of the major singers of th... Read more
Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault , 1635-88, French dramatist. His tragedies and comedies are affected and undistinguished, but he found an outlet for his talent in the 14 opera librettos which he wrote for Lully. The charm and delicacy of his style is clearly apparent in his masterpiece, Armide (1686), a librett... Read more
League of Augsburg
League of Augsburg defensive alliance formed (1686) by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I with various German states, including Bavaria and the Palatinate, and with Sweden and Spain so far as their German interests were concerned. It was an acknowledgment of a community of German feeling against French e... Read more
Michel Baron
Michel Baron , 1653-1729, one of the first great French actors. A protégé of Molière, he acted at the Hôtel de Bourgogne and at the Comédie Française. He brought a naturalness to the bombastic acting style established by Montfleury. In 1691 he retired at the ... Read more

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Law, William (1686-1761)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Law, William (1686-1761) English mystic and theologian. William Law was born in 1686, at King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England. His father, a grocer, managed to send William to Cambridge University in 1705. Entering Emmanuel College...
Steno, Nicolaus (Niels Stensen; 1638–1686)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...NICOLAUS (Niels Stensen; 1638 – 1686) STENO, NICOLAUS (Niels Stensen; 1638 – 1686), Danish anatomist, paleontologist, and...the Catholic Church. He died on 5 December 1686 in Schwerin. The grand duke of Florence...
Budapest
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the allied forces of the Holy League in 1686 it remained the center of the Ottoman Empire's northernmost province. From 1686 until 1703 Buda and Pest were under the...under Ottoman rule (1541 – 1686) Buda and Pest had, respectively, about...
Ray, John (or Wray, 1627–1705)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...his three-volume Historia Plantarum (1686 – 1704) and his Synopsis Methodica...Historia Plantarum. London, Vol. I, 1686; Vol. II, 1688; Vol. III, 1704...de Historia Piscium. 2 vols. Oxford, 1686. — — . The Ornithology...
Ecclesiastical Commission
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Ecclesiastical Commission, 1686. The Court of High Commission , to impose uniformity in the church...by commission’ expressly prohibited. Nevertheless, in 1686 James II named seven ecclesiastical commissioners with sweeping disciplinary...
Nicolaus Steno
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Nicolaus Steno The Danish naturalist Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) established the law of superposition and the law of constancy...northern Germany and Scandinavia. He died in Schwerin on Nov. 26, 1686. Further Reading The most comprehensive biography of Steno...
Literacy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...historical rates of literacy published in 1880 showed that for the 1686 – 1690 period, 75 percent of the population could...sexes: a 1880 government study in France shows that between 1686 and 1690 the female literacy rate (based on ability to sign...
Belarus
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...armies. According to the Russian-Polish treaties of 1667 and 1686, the commonwealth maintained its control over all of Belarusian...Sulima. Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland- Lithuania and Russia, 1686 – 1697. Cambridge, Mass., 1993. Pelenski, Jaroslaw...
Prince de Condé
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...general Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Cond é (1621-1686), became known as the "great Cond é " because of his...He was reconverted to Catholicism the year before his death in 1686. Further Reading The most extensive work on Cond é is...
Estonia
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...acceptable book, a catechism, was published in 1535, and in 1686 an Estonian edition of the New Testament was published. Education...peasants taught their children to read at home. As early as 1686, the first alphabet book in Estonian appeared. A complete translation...

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Dominion of New England
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...had never had a royal governor. In May 1686, however, King James II (1685 –...and Dominion of New England" on 3 June 1686. Andros had jurisdiction over Massachusetts...councils. Governor Andros arrived in December 1686 with a force of sixty English soldiers...
Bernoulli, Jakob (Jacques) I
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...4th ed., 1695). In four disputations published from 1684to 1686, Bernoulli presented formal logical studies that tended toward...Walther von Tschirnhaus in Acta eruditorum (1682 – 1686), which had in essence been limited to examples and intimations...
Mengoli, Pietro
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...MENGOLI, PIETRO ( b . Bologna, Italy, 1625: d . Bologna, 1686) mathematics . Mengoli ’ s name appears in the register of the University of Bologna for the years between 1648 and 1686. He studied with Cavalieri, whom he succeeded in the chair...
Ecclesiastical Commission
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Ecclesiastical Commission, 1686. The Court of High Commission , to impose uniformity in the church, was abolished in 1641 by the Long Parliament. Nevertheless, in 1686 James II named seven ecclesiastical commissioners, who summoned Henry...
Kōnig, Emanuel
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...excellent texts: Regnum animale (1682), Regnum minerals (1686), and Regnum vegetabile (1688). In the first treatise...praparationes selectissimas ususque multiplices candide sistens (Basel, 1686). Regnum minerale generale et speciale, quorum illud naturalem...
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...xE9;e (1682); Phaëton (1683); Amadis de Gaule (1684); Roland (1685); Armide (1686); Acis et Galathée (1686); Achille et Polixène (with Colasse, 1687, prod. posthumously).COMEDY-BALLETS with...
Leibniz: Physics, Logic, Metaphysics
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...philosophy of Descartes led Leibniz to a more decisive rejection. In 1686 he published in the Acta eruditorum a criticism of Descartes...Catalan, Malebranche, and Papin lasting until 1691. Also in 1686 Leibniz sent to Arnauld, for his comments, an essay entitled...
Dientzenhofer Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...strongly influenced by the geometries of Guarini (published in 1686), and who designed several churches of great splendour in Bohemia...x2013;1707) was responsible for the abbeys at Ebrach (1686–1704) and Banz (1695–1705). However...
Bijapur
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...14th century. Its era of independent splendour was from 1489 to 1686 when the Adil Shahi sultans made it their capital and were responsible for Islamic architecture of outstanding quality. In 1686 the Mogul emperor AURANGZEB defeated Bijapur, but was unable...
Bosse, Abraham
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Paris, 1648), also translated into Dutch (Amsterdam, 1664, 1686); Moyen universel pour pratiquer la perspective sur les tableaux...Paris, 1653), also translated into Dutch (Amsterdam, 1664, 1686); Repr é sentations g é om é trales...

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CIX Raises Concerns about H.R. 1686.
PR Newswire; 5/9/2000; 549 words ; ...today expressed its opposition to H.R. 1686, legislation that would enable the Regional...the 1996 Telecommunications Act. H.R. 1686 may come up for a vote in the House Judiciary...Companies with their monopoly intact. H.R. 1686 has always contained the anti-competition...
ALICE OF DUNK'S FERRY (c. 1686-1802)
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 2/19/1997; 486 words ; ...York Beacon, The 02-19-1997 ALICE OF DUNK'S FERRY (c. 1686-1802). Although little is known about this curious figure...the "proprietor" of Pennsylvania. Alice was born around 1686 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to slave parents who had been...
Blank, Andreas. Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics 1666-1686.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...BLANK, Andreas. Leibniz: Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics 1666-1686. Analytica. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2005. 207 pp. Cloth...of the Dissertation on the Art of Combinations, and ending in 1686, that of the aforementioned Discourse on Metaphysics. This...
Historia social de una comunidad Tlaxcalteca: San Miguel de Aguayo (Bustamante, N.L.) 1686-1820.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Latin American Geography; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...comunidad Tlaxcalteca: San Miguel de Aguayo (Bustamante, N.L.) 1686-1820. Elisabeth Butzer. Translated by Jeronimo Valdes Garza...de Aguayo, whose current name is Bustamante, was founded in 1686 by settlers from the pueblo of San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala...
The newest detective in town is also the oldest . . from 1686
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 4/25/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...basic fingerprinting to narrow down his list of suspects - in 1686 they too were centuries away. Because Edinburgh's newest fictional...familiar but also somewhat different to the present-day city. In 1686, the city was on the brink of the Enlightenment - 70 years later...
Security Council extends commission investigating rafik Hariri killing until 15 June 2007; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1686 (2006).
M2 Presswire; 6/16/2006; 700+ words ; ...Hariri killing until 15 June 2007; Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1686 (2006)(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15062006...10:09 a.m. Council Resolution The full text of resolution 1686 (2006) reads as follows: "The Security Council, "Recalling...
Rituals of majesty: France, Siam, and court spectacle in royal image-building at Versailles in 1685 and 1686.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...in the lavish audience arranged at Versailles on 1 September 1686 by Louis XIV to welcome the three ambassadors of Phra Narai...opportunities afforded by his position, such as the Siamese embassy of 1686, to achieve that end. For this reason, one can agree with...
THE FIRST UNDRED YEARS (1686 - 1786): IN THE BEGINNING.(TRICENTENNIAL)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/6/1986; 700+ words ; ...corner onto Jonker Street and trudges up the hill toward the fort, calling the hour. It's 4 a.m. on a Sunday in July, 1686. It's a quiet time. But soon a stately procession of cows will plod down Handlers Street, the broad north-south way earlier...
Pollution Control Devises--MA SB 1686 (Magnani et al) (MASSACHUSETTS).
Magazine article from: The Journal of Coatings Technology; 8/1/2001; 300 words ; Pollution Control Devises--MA SB 1686 (Magnani et al) provides a sales tax exemption for pollution control devices with worker safety protections. The bill was heard on June 5, and is eligible for Executive Session.
Huguenot Oak is landmark from 1686.
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 9/10/2009; 700+ words ; Byline: Ellie Oleson OXFORD - There is one survivor left from the 1686 first settlement of Oxford. The massive Huguenot Oak stands on Huguenot Road, where it is believed to have stood for more than...