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On January 14 the clarinet was invented in Nurnburg, Germany by Johann Christoph Denner. -
While in Marburg in 1690, having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', Papin built a model of a piston steam engine, the first of its kind. -
On December 1690, John Locke published his essay "Concerning Human Understanding", arguing that all knowledge is based on experience. -
On December 10, 1690, a failed attack on Quebec and subsequent near-mutiny force the Massachusetts Bay Colony to issue the first paper currency in the history of the Western Hemisphere. -
In southeastern Colonial Brazil, when Portuguese colonists known as bandmasters roamed the countryside looking for indigenous peoples of Brazil to capture for the slave trade, gold was discovered. -
The most powerful earthquake hits Italy on January 11, 1693. At dawn, the most destructive earthquake in recorded European history strikes the Straits of Messina in southern Italy, leveling the cities of Messina in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. The earthquake and tsunami it caused killed an estimated 100,000 people. -
On July, 27,1964 The Bank of England was founded and soon becomes the central banker for England's many private banks. -
The Palace of Whitehall (or Palace of White Hall) at Westminster, Middlesex, was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, except notably Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire. ... It was about 710 yards (650 m) from Westminster Abbey. -
Germany, Lübeck did not tolerate the Jews.n 1350 the city council wrote to Duke Otto of Brunswick-Lüneburg requesting him to exterminate the Jews living in his territory, as they were responsible for the plague, which would not cease until all Jews had been killed. -
The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.