The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (), to December 31, 1700 ().It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, …

The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. ... 17th century. A 1609 title page of the Relation, the world's first newspaper (first published in 1605) 1605: ...

This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions. ... Pre-17th century. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) Ambix, ...

The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 ().During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, Polish, and Haitian revolutions.During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea.Revolutions began to challenge the …

14th century. Lapta. Lapta is a Russian ball game played with a bat, similar to modern baseball.The game is played outside on a field the size of 20 x 25 sazhens (about 140 x 175 feet). Points are earned by hitting the ball, served by a player of the opposite team, and sending it as far as possible, then running across the field to the kon line, and if possible running back to the …

The 8th century BCE started the first day of 800 BC and ended the last day of 701 BC.The 8th century BC is a period of great change for several historically significant civilizations. In Egypt, the 23rd and 24th dynasties lead to rule from Nubia in the 25th Dynasty.The Neo-Assyrian Empire reaches the peak of its power, conquering the Kingdom of Israel as well as nearby countries.

The 19th century was brought about the dawn of revolutionary inventions that changed the world. Almost all the things we rely so deeply on today, have their roots in devices that were invented in the 1800’s. ... work was being done on different kinds of telephones as early as the 17th century. Those early telephones were very primitive as ...

17th century England was wracked by civil war over religious issues. ... Inventions not only introduced new industries for employment, but the products and services produced also altered society. ... English Society in the Eighteenth Century (2nd ed. 1991) excerpt; Royle, Edward. Modern Britain: A Social History 1750–1997 (2nd ed. 1997), with ...

A junk is a type of Chinese sailing ship with fully battened sails.There are two types of junk in China: the northern junk, which developed from Chinese river boats,: 20 and southern junk, which developed from Austronesian ship designs used in trade with the Eastern Han dynasty since the 2nd century AD.: 12–13 They continued to evolve in later dynasties, and were predominantly …

Rongorongo / ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ / (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing.Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs ...