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    1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1696th year...
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  • Anno 1696 is the ninth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium, released on 24 February 2023 via Century Media. Insomnium began working...
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  • Act 1696, or the Flag Law Act , (Philippine Commission Act № 1696, August 23, 1907) is an act of the Philippine Commission that outlawed the display of...
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  • The year 1696 in science and technology involved some significant events. Daniel Le Clerc publishes Histoire de la médecine in Geneva, the first comprehensive...
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    Maria Theresa of Austria (22 August 1684 – 28 September 1696) was a daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and his third wife Eleonor Magdalene of the...
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    The Azov campaigns of 1695–1696 (Russian: Азо́вские похо́ды, Azovskiye Pokhody), were two Russian military campaigns during the Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700...
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    Bridlington is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is on the Holderness part (Flamborough Head to the Humber estuary)...
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  • 1690s BC (redirect from 1696 BC)
    Decades 1710s BC 1700s BC 1690s BC 1680s BC 1670s BC Years 1699 BC 1698 BC 1697 BC 1696 BC 1695 BC 1694 BC 1693 BC 1692 BC 1691 BC 1690 BC Categories v t e...
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  • further developed and tightened by the Navigation Acts of 1663, 1673, and 1696. Upon this basis during the 18th century, the Acts were modified by subsequent...
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  • number of people were indiscriminately killed in the Edo period was the 1696 Yoshiwara spree killing (吉原百人斬り, Yoshiwara hyakunin giri; lit. "Yoshiwara...
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  • The Great Recoinage of 1696 was an attempt by the English Government under King William III to replace the hammered silver that made up most of the coinage...
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    in the schemes for assassinating William which came to light in 1695 and 1696. After the seizure of his fellow conspirators, Robert Charnock and others...
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    and Ireland in early 1696. One of a series of plots by Jacobites to reverse the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, the plot of 1696 had been preceded by...
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    (German: Hermann Moritz von Sachsen, French: Maurice de Saxe; 28 October 1696 – 20 November 1750) was a notable soldier, officer and a famed military commander...
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    and spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1699) and Master (1699–1727) of the Royal Mint, as well as president of the...
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  • – Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce. 1696 Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William Talman in...
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    his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, Peter was an absolute monarch, an autocrat who remained...
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    (1688–1697), leaving Mary to govern Britain alone. She died in 1694. In 1696 the Jacobites, a faction loyal to the deposed James, plotted unsuccessfully...
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    (1): 1569–1696. Men-At-Arms Series. Vol. 184. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-736-X. Brzezinski, Richard (1988). Polish Armies (2): 1569–1696. Men-At-Arms...
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    After falling under Ottoman Empire rule, Montenegro gained semi-autonomy in 1696 under the rule of the House of Petrović-Njegoš, first as a theocracy and...
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    June 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2020. London Merchants of 1677 William III, 1696-7 Chapter IX. Rot. Parl. 8 & 9 Gul. III. p. 2. nu. 3. Textile industries...
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    escutcheons from the mid-15th century. Used in the Armorial général de France (1696). The "French" shape of the base is found earlier, in French and English...
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    John Hampden (21 March 1653 – 12 December 1696), the second son of Richard Hampden, and grandson of ship money tax protester John Hampden, returned to...
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  • 2. c. 6) The Highways Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 29) The Highways Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 16) The Highways Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 56) The Highways...
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    Licensing Act and so cleared the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696. Censorship had already been relaxed following the Bill of Rights 1689. It...
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  • 1696 Nurmela, provisional designation 1939 FF, is a Baptistina asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles)...
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  • 1692: October 31 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765) 1696: Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771) 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary...
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  • Events from the year 1696 in England. Monarch – William III January Great Recoinage of 1696: The Parliament of England passes the Recoinage Act. Colley...
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  • William Martin (c. 1696 – 17 September 1756) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the War of the Spanish Succession and the War of the...
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    the army of the Ya'rubid ruler of Oman, Saif I bin Sultan, from 13 March 1696 to 13 December 1698. The Yarubid dynasty had been expanding since the expulsion...
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