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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ...ngdom of Great Britain|Kingdom]], Anne became the first Sovereign of [[Great Britain]]. She continued ...
10: ...ngland|James II]], had been forcibly deposed in [[1688]]; her sister and brother-in-law then became Quee...
15: ...ames, Duke of York, (afterwards James II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Ed...
17: ...Catholicism. Princess Anne, however, declared her firm adherence to [[Anglicanism]]; James II continue...
19: ...es attempted to flee the realm on [[11 December]] 1688, succeeding twelve days later. In [[1689]], a [[C... - Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
8: ...ver, govern the realm when her husband was abroad fighting wars.
11: ...the Duke of York (the future James II) and of his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]]. Mary's uncle was...
15: ...d improve his popularity amongst Protestants. The first cousins Mary and William married in London on ...
20: ...ard Stuart|James Francis Edward]]—in June [[1688]], for the son would, unlike Mary and Anne, be ra...
22: ...landed on [[5 November]]. The English people's confidence in James stood so low that they did not atte... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: The materials definition of a '''glass''' is a uniform [[amorphous s...
5: ...der of this article will be concerned with a specific type of glass—the [[silica]]-based glasses...
9: ...ak into sharp shards. These properties can be modified, or even changed entirely, with the addition of...
22: ...ections doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emis...
32: ...sorbs [[infrared]] energy, such as heat absorbing filters for movie projectors, while [[cerium]] can b... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
8: *[[Moammar Al Qadhafi|Qadhafi, Moammar]], Libyan military leader
10: ... of Prime Ministers of Fiji|Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] (2000-present)
55: ...|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
63: ... Maurits Quinckhardt|Quinckhardt, Jan Maurits]], (1688-1772), painter
64: *[[Richard Quine|Quine, Richard]], film director - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
65: *[[1688]]-[[Glorious Revolution]] deposes James II and re... - John Locke (14749 bytes)
3: ... philosophy of mind also had a great deal of significant influence well into the [[The Age of Enlighte...
18: ...ion 1707|Act of Union]] of [[1707]], though the office of King of England and King of Scotland had bee...
22: ...cke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political affiliation expressed themselves in his published writ...
24: Locke's first major published work was ''[[A Letter Concerni...
27: ...a justification of the [[Glorious Revolution]] of 1688, though no one doubts thats Locke substantively r... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and it is beli...
27: ...|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...[Asia]], but neither historical nor archeological findings corroborate this. Dodos were hardly ever ea...
31: However, when humans first arrived on Mauritius, they also brought with t...
33: ...tion of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.o...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[T...
12: ...ifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents. After the ransom was paid, Caesar rai...
14: The Senate finally invested [[Pompey]] with powers to deal with... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
2: ...r Henry Morgan''' (c. [[1635]] - [[August 25]], [[1688]]) was a [[privateer]] of Welsh birth, who made a...
4: ...[[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly...
6: ... in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally Morgan consented to evacuate the place on th...
8: ...som as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking a landward ...
29: [[Category:1688 deaths|Morgan, Henry]] - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
2: ...]] ([[Australia]]) and [[New Guinea]]. He was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world twice, ...
6: ==First circumnavigation==
7: ...[Panama]] and captured Spanish ships on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided...
9: ...[[31 March]] [[1686]] they set out across the Pacific to raid the [[East Indies]], calling at [[Guam]]...
11: Early in [[1688]] ''Cygnet'' was beached on the northwest coast o... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...Royal Society]]. In [[1775]], Franklin became the first [[United States Postmaster General]].
4: ...edical [[catheter]], the [[lightning rod]], [[swimfin]]s, improvements to the [[glass harmonica]], and...
13: ...[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth).
15: Josiah's first wife Anne died in Boston on [[July 9]], [[1689...
23: ...now the [[Church of St Batholomew the Great, Smithfield]]. Following this he returned to Philadelphia ... - Atlanta, Georgia (39442 bytes)
19: |url=[http://www.atlantaga.gov/ City of Atlanta Official Website]}}
33: .... The origins of the modern name are somewhat difficult to describe. In [[1845]], the Chief Engineer...
36: ... point in the Civil War, giving the North more confidence, and leading to the re-election of [[Abraham...
38: ...ty of the "New South," by which he meant a diversification of the economy away from agriculture and a ...
43: ...lanta from the old Malaria Control in War Areas offices and staff. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
188: *[[Franį¯Šs Bernier]], (1620-1688){{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Lanthanum (10184 bytes)
35: <td>[[Electron configuration]] </td><td><nowiki>...
46: ... </td><td>1193 [[Kelvin|K]] (1688 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])</td></tr>
50: ... </td><td>22.39 [[scientific notation|×]]10<sup>-6</sup> [[cubic metre ...
64: <td>[[Specific heat capacity]] </td><td>1...
107: ...on [[lighting]] applications, especially by the [[film|motion picture]] industry for studio lighting a... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political unit until the late 19t...
5: ..., dating from the 8th century until 1806, was the first German [[Reich]], or empire. The territory of ...
7: ...th the Roman-Germanic period and ends with the Unification of the two Germanys in [[1990]]. For furthe...
17: ...uringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube front...
23: ... [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]], who established the first monastery east of the Rhine at [[Fritzlar]]. B... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
22: The breast structure was insufficient to have ever supported flight and it is beli...
27: ...|Portuguese]] in [[1505]], but the Dutch were the first permanent settlers on the island.)
29: ...[Asia]], but neither historical nor archeological findings corroborate this. Dodos were hardly ever ea...
31: However, when humans first arrived on Mauritius, they also brought with t...
33: ...tion of the dodo is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in [[1662]], reported by [[shipwreck... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ..., an iconic event of the [[French Revolution]]]][[File:Washington Crossing the Delaware.png|thumb|250p...
6: ...f Maximlien de Robespierre in the early 1790s. At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced enlightenme...
12: [[File:Poltava battle.jpg|thumb|[[Peter the Great]] in...
13: [[File:Europa 1700 en.jpg|thumb|250px|Europe on the ev...
14: [[File:Marlborough-duke-first.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke o...
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