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Europe at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700. 1720: The South Sea Bubble. 1720: Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition, traveling north from Mexico into the Great Plains. 1720–1721: The Great Plague of Marseille. 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain .
Map of the nine colonial colleges. The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution before the founding of the United States. [1]
Johann Gottfried Sechting (1749–1814), German clockmaker, student of Hahn, astronomical clock. Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829), English clock and chronometer maker, London, marine chronometer. Antoine Tavan (1749–1836), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, Präzisionstaschenuhren. John Wilter, fictitious name used on many Dutch forgeries.
The mission was abandoned in 1700 when missionary efforts seemed fruitless 1697 – To evangelize the English colonies , Thomas Bray , an Anglican preacher who made several missionary trips to North America, begins laying the groundwork for what will be the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts [ 168 ]
The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday").
The Students' Monument is built in Aiud, Romania. Chinese Rites controversy: Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions. Nerchinsky Zavod is founded in the Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia by Greek mining engineers.
A Temple University student was suspended and arrested after allegedly impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Unit (ICE) agent on the school's North Philadelphia campus on Saturday, Feb ...
For a timeline of events from 1601 to 1700, see Timeline of the 17th century; For a timeline of events from 1701 to 1800, see Timeline of the 18th century;