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  1. Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
    1: '''Christina''' ([[1626]] – [[1689]]) or '''Kristina''', later known as '''Maria Chr...
    16: ...gn=top><td>'''Date of Death'''<td>[[April 19]], [[1689]]
    25: ...ia Eleonora of Brandenburg|Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]]...
    31: ...cipal member of the governing regency council. As ruler, Christina resisted demands from the other est...
    39: ...tside the orbit of Sweden's influence, the first fruits of which were to have been an invasion of Port...
  2. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    8: '''Anne''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]&ndash;[[1 August]][[1714]]) became ...
    17: ...on to Roman Catholicism became public. On the instructions of Charles II, however, Anne and her sister...
    19: ...who ruled as joint monarchs. The [[Bill of Rights 1689]] settled succession to the Throne; Princess Anne...
    24: ... government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from makin...
    47: ... majority was unassailable, but the same was not true in the [[House of Lords]]. To block the peace pl...
  3. Mary II of England (12093 bytes)
    8: ...III of England|William III]], who became the sole ruler upon her death. Popular histories usually know...
    15: ...rst, Charles II opposed the alliance with a Dutch ruler &mdash; he preferred that Mary marry the heir ...
    24: ...gh some individuals proposed to make her the sole ruler, Mary, remaining loyal to her husband, refused...
    26: On [[13 February]] 1689, Parliament passed the [[Declaration of Right]], ...
    28: ...together at [[Westminster Abbey]] on [[11 April]] 1689. Normally, the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] perfo...
  4. Canada (35540 bytes)
    6: ...the world and the second largest in area (after [[Russia]]). Bordering the [[United States]], its terr...
    18: ...uage of [[Quebec]] and is widely spoken in [[New Brunswick]].
    46: ...align=left|[[New Brunswick]]||[[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]]
    90: ...e for control of North America took place between 1689 and 1763 (see [[French and Indian Wars]]), exacer...
    92: ...e Loyalists, Britain created the colony of [[New Brunswick]] in [[1784]] and divided Quebec into [[Low...
  5. Slovenia (19318 bytes)
    148: ...venia can be considered one of the economic front-runners of the countries that joined the European Un...
    157: ...otal population lives in urban areas, the rest in rural.
    164: ... protestant reformer [[Primoz Trubar|Primo&#382; Trubar]] ([[1508]]-[[1586]]). It was actually two boo...
    166: ... (Die Ehre des Herzogthums Crain), published in [[1689]] by [[baron]] [[Janez Vajkard Valvasor]] ([[1641...
    184: ...ests ([[oak]] and [[beech]], in the mountains [[spruce]], [[fir]] and [[pine]]). The [[tree-line]] is ...
  6. Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
    6: ...1684 revocation of the Bay Colony charter and the 1689 revolt against Governor Andros, believed the accu...
    17: ...from being confiscated by the state, this is not true; the possessions of convicted witches were often...
    154: *[[Arthur Miller|Miller, Arthur]], ''[[The Crucible]]'' &mdash; a play which implicitly compares...
    161: * [[The Crucible]]
    164: ...xplore/salemwitch.htm Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible]
  7. French and Indian War (5652 bytes)
    9: ...own in North America as [[King William's War]] ([[1689]]-[[97]]), [[Queen Anne's War]] ([[1702]]-[[1714]...
    17: ...e signing of the [[1763 Treaty of Paris]] on [[February 10]], [[1763]]. France agreed to cede Canada t...
    43: ...25]], [[1758]] with the British occupation of the ruins of [[Fort Duquesne]])
  8. History of science (41710 bytes)
    6: ...hich differs from the search for [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that,...
    11: ...ely at the ways in which they "produce" and "construct" scientific knowledge. Since the 1960s, a commo...
    15: ...ce." Often, but not always, a conflict over the "truth" of science has split along the lines of those ...
    21: ...mes until recent times can be found in [[Bertrand Russell]]'s ''History of Philosophy''. In many cases...
    29: ...ough they had no knowledge of the real physical structure of the planets and stars, many theoretical e...
  9. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
    188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
    210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
    211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
    212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]])
  10. Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
    5: ...r writers ([[Pierre Borel]] 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and [[Willem Boreel]] 1591 - 1668) to have invent...
    12: ...icrographs. He coins the word ''cell'' for the structures he discovers in [[cork (material)|cork]] ba...
    14: * [[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron microscope]].
  11. Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
    4: ...ity]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour]]s observed when [[white]] [[l...
    27: ...finite Series''), and later in ''De methodis serierum et fluxionum'' (''On the Methods of Series and F...
    36: ...lescope]]s, he was able to produce a superior instrument to the refracting telescope, due primarily to...
    40: He once said, in a letter to Hooke dated [[5 February]] [[1676]]:
    46: ... reason of it being then unknown; which makes me trust the more to his experiment, though I have not t...
  12. Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
    66: *[[1689]]-[[King William's War]] (1689-1697), part of the wider [[War of the Grand Allia...
  13. John Locke (14749 bytes)
    12: ...e advice of several physicians and was likely instrumental in persuading Shaftesbury to undergo an ope...
    24: ...lieved, the national church could serve as an instrument for social harmony.
    27: ...xt 18 years. It was finally published in December 1689. Though the exact dates of the composition of th...
    31: ... diversity. Locke also distinguishes between the truly existing ''primary qualities'' of bodies, like ...
    37: ...its trust when the laws are violated or when the trust of prerogative is abused.
  14. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    6: ...tan]] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
    22: | '''Petrus''', <small>Head of the Church</small>
    28: | '''Petrus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
    29: ...Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair of Peter]]) [[22 February]]</small>
    74: ...''[[Pope Telesphorus]]'''<br><small>Saint Telesphorus</small>
  15. Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
    13: ...bruary 5]], [[1688]]), and Joseph ([[June 30]], [[1689]]) (the first Joseph having died soon after birth...
    15: ...He then remarried, to Abiah, on [[November 25]] [[1689]] in the [[Old South Church]] of Boston by the Re...
    17: ...), Mary ([[September 26]], [[1694]]), James ([[February 4]], [[1697]]), Sarah ([[July 9]], [[1699]]), ...
    23: ...ibuted many essays. The Gazette gave Franklin a forum for agitating for a variety of local reforms. H...
    27: ...]] partly contributed to the American colonies' struggle to maintain their privileges.
  16. Russia (28007 bytes)
    2: ... or ''Rossijskaja Federacija''), or '''Russia''' (Russian: &#1056;&#1086;&#1089;&#1089;&#1080;&#769;&#...
    4: .... In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR...
    6: ...sia. Consequently, after the breakup of the USSR, Russia again vied for an influential role on the wor...
    7: {{Russia infobox}}
    10: {{main|History of Russia}}
  17. Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
    20: ... be regulated if Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite th...
    22: ...1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philoso...
    32: ... [[1647]], Hobbes was engaged as mathematical instructor to the young [[Charles II of England|Charles,...
    36: ...'[[De Cive]]'' under the title of ''Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society''. Meanw...
    42: ... [[state of nature]] is "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short" (xiii).
  18. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
    231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
    257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
    258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}}
  19. Physics (25628 bytes)
    6: ...ysics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical theories.
    47: ...]]s from which all other units of matter are constructed. Finally, the field of [[astrophysics]] appli...
    81: ...ous aether]] - [[Steady state theory]] - [[Wave Structure Matter]]
    90: [[Image:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg|thumb|left|[[Isaac Newton]]]]
    91: The willingness to question previously held truths and search for new answers resulted in a perio...
  20. Monarchy (11801 bytes)
    1: ...ge|Greek]] ''monos'', "one," and ''archein'', "to rule") is a [[form of government]] that has a [[mona...
    9: ...e law is simply the monarch's will, the king must rule by custom.
    11: ...ions until after the [[Glorious Revolution]] in [[1689]]. Among the few states that have [[absolute mona...
    14: ...pid [[communication]] to flourish. The economic structure of such monarchies is that of concentrated w...
    20: ...personal union]]. An [[empire]] was traditionally ruled by a monarchy whose leader may have been known...

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