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| 1  | 1608  | - Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
 
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| 2  | 1620  | - The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
 
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| 3  | 1624  | - William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
 
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| 4  | 1625  | - Charles I.  Ruler of England 1625-1649.  House of Stuart: Only surviving son of James I; beheaded Jan 30, 1649.
 
- Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
 
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| 5  | 1629  | - Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
 
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| 6  | 1636  | - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
 
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| 7  | 1642  | - Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
 
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| 8  | 1643  | - Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
 
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| 9  | 1649  | - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.  Ruler of England 1649-1658.  Commonwealth & Protectorate.
 
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| 10  | 1650  | - Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
 
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| 11  | 1656  | - Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
 
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| 12  | 1658  | - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector.  Ruler of England 1658-1659.  Commonwealth & Proctorate:  3rd son of Oliver.  Resigned May 25, 1659.
 
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| 13  | 1660  | - Charles II.  Ruler of England 1660-1685.  House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue.  De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
 
- Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
 
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| 14  | 1663  | - James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
 
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| 15  | 1668  | - Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
 
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| 16  | 1670  | - Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
 
- The first reference to a candy cane is made.
 
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| 17  | 1671  | - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
 
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| 18  | 1675  | - Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
 
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| 19  | 1676  | - Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
 
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| 20  | 1679  | - Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
 
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| 21  | 1685  | - James II.  Ruler of England 1685-1689.  House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I.  Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689.
 
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| 22  | 1689  | - William III and Mary II.  Rulers of England 1689-1702.  House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I.  Mary eldest daughter of James II.  She died 1694.
 
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| 23  | 1698  | - Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
 
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| 24  | 1701  | - Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
 
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| 25  | 1702  | - Anne.  Ruler of England 1702-1714.  House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs.
 
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| 26  | 1709  | - Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
 
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| 27  | 1711  | - Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
 
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| 28  | 1712  | - Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
 
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| 29  | 1714  | - George I.  Ruler of England 1714-1727.  House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, grand-daughter of James I.  Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement.
 
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| 30  | 1717  | - Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
 
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| 31  | 1722  | - French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
 
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| 32  | 1724  | - Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
 
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| 33  | 1727  | - George II.  Ruler of England 1727-1760.  House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
 
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| 34  | 1733  | - John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
 
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| 35  | 1745  | - E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
 
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| 36  | 1752  | - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
 
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| 37  | 1755  | - Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
 
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| 38  | 1757  | - John Campbell invents the sextant.
 
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| 39  | 1758  | - Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
 
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| 40  | 1760  | - George III.  Ruler of England 1760-1820.  House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
 
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| 41  | 1761  | - Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
 
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| 42  | 1764  | - James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
 
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| 43  | 1767  | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
 
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| 44  | 1768  | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
 
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| 45  | 1769  | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
 
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| 46  | 1774  | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
 
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| 47  | 1775  | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
 
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
 
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| 48  | 1776  | - David Bushnell invents a submarine.
 
- July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
 
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| 49  | 1779  | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
 
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| 50  | 1780  | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
 
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
 
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| 51  | 1783  | - Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
 
- Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
 
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
 
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
 
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| 52  | 1784  | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
 
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
 
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| 53  | 1785  | - Blanchard invents a working parachute.
 
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
 
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
 
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
 
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| 54  | 1786  | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
 
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| 55  | 1789  | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
 
- The guillotine is invented.
 
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| 56  | 1790  | - The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
 
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| 57  | 1791  | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
 
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
 
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| 58  | 1792  | - The first ambulance.
 
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
 
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| 59  | 1794  | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
 
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
 
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| 60  | 1795  | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
 
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| 61  | 1796  | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
 
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| 62  | 1797  | - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
 
- John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
 
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
 
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| 63  | 1798  | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
 
- The first soft drink invented.
 
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| 64  | 1799  | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
 
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
 
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| 65  | 1800  | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
 
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| 66  | 1801  | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
 
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| 67  | 1804  | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
 
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
 
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| 68  | 1806  | - A total eclipse of the sun occurred June 1*, 1806. It happened in the forenoon the great obscuration being between eleven and twelve o’clock, when everything had the appearance of night. The fowls hastened to their roosts; the chill of evening came on; and the stars were visible.
 
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| 69  | 1809  | - Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
 
- James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
 
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| 70  | 1810  | - German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
 
- May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
 
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
 
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| 71  | 1811  | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
 
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| 72  | 1812  | - 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain.  The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
 
- 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
 
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