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1 giorno fa · Their activities between November 1655 and September 1656 had, however, reopened the wounds of the 1640s and deepened antipathies to the regime. In late 1654, Cromwell launched the Western Design armada against the Spanish West Indies , and in May 1655 captured Jamaica .
2 giorni fa · The next development in accuracy occurred after 1656 with the invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens. A major stimulus to improving the accuracy and reliability of clocks was the importance of precise time-keeping for navigation.
2 giorni fa · A 1656 portrait of Philip. Philip had inherited a huge empire from his father, spanning the known world, but many of his most difficult challenges as king would stem from domestic problems in Spain itself.
6 giorni fa · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (born June 5, 1656, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Dec. 28, 1708, Paris) was a French botanist and physician, a pioneer in systematic botany, whose system of plant classification represented a major advance in his day and remains, in some respects, valid to the present time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · November 1656: An Act for the Security of His Highness the Lord Protector His Person, And Continuance of the Nation in Peace and Safety. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.
19 mag 2024 · First performed under Cromwell in 1656 when the theatres were still officially closed, The Siege of Rhodes bewitched the ears of the great diarist Samuel Pepys and remains one of the most important works in the history of both English literature and music.
3 giorni fa · Instinct is a TV show that aired from 2018 to 2019. It is a police procedural drama based on the James Patterson novel, 'Murder Games.' The show follows Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a former CIA operative and current author, who is enlisted by the NYPD to help solve a series of murders that resemble the crimes in his book.
