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| 1 | 1553 | - Mary I. Ruler of England 1553-1558. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Catherine of Aragon.
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| 2 | 1558 | - Elizabeth I. Ruler of England 1558-1603. House of Tudor: Daughter of Henry VIII, by Anne Boleyn.
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| 3 | 1568 | - Bottled beer invented in London.
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| 4 | 1569 | - Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
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| 5 | 1589 | - Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine.
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| 6 | 1590 | - Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
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| 7 | 1593 | - Galileo invents a water thermometer.
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| 8 | 1603 | - James I. Ruler of England 1603-1625. House of Stuart: Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of James IV and Margaret. First to call himself King of Great Britain. This became official with the Act of Union, 1707.
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| 9 | 1608 | - Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
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| 10 | 1620 | - The earliest human-powered submarine invented.
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| 11 | 1624 | - William Oughtred invents a slide ruler.
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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 1629 | - Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
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| 14 | 1636 | - W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
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| 15 | 1642 | - Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
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| 16 | 1643 | - Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
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| 17 | 1649 | - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1649-1658. Commonwealth & Protectorate.
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| 18 | 1650 | - Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
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| 19 | 1656 | - Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
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| 20 | 1658 | - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. Ruler of England 1658-1659. Commonwealth & Proctorate: 3rd son of Oliver. Resigned May 25, 1659.
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 1663 | - James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
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| 23 | 1668 | - Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
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| 24 | 1670 | - Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
- The first reference to a candy cane is made.
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| 25 | 1671 | - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
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| 26 | 1675 | - Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
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| 27 | 1676 | - Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
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| 28 | 1679 | - Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
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| 29 | 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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| 30 | 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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| 31 | 1698 | - Englishman, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
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| 32 | 1701 | - Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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| 33 | 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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| 34 | 1709 | - Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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| 35 | 1711 | - Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
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| 36 | 1712 | - Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
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| 37 | 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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| 38 | 1717 | - Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
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| 39 | 1722 | - French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
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| 40 | 1724 | - Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
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| 41 | 1727 | - George II. Ruler of England 1727-1760. House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg.
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| 42 | 1733 | - John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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| 43 | 1745 | - E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
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| 44 | 1752 | - Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod.
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| 45 | 1755 | - Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary.
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| 46 | 1757 | - John Campbell invents the sextant.
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| 47 | 1758 | - Dolland invents a chromatic lens.
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| 48 | 1760 | - George III. Ruler of England 1760-1820. House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg.
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| 49 | 1761 | - Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude.
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| 50 | 1764 | - James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
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| 51 | 1767 | - Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water.
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| 52 | 1768 | - Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame.
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| 53 | 1769 | - James Watt invents an improved steam engine.
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| 54 | 1774 | - Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph.
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| 55 | 1775 | - Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet.
- Jacques Perrier invents a steamship.
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| 56 | 1776 | - July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
- David Bushnell invents a submarine.
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| 57 | 1779 | - Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule.
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| 58 | 1780 | - Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses.
- Gervinus invents the circular saw.
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| 59 | 1783 | - Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
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| 60 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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| 61 | 1785 | - Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
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| 62 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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| 63 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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| 64 | 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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| 65 | 1791 | - John Barber invents the gas turbine.
- Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
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| 66 | 1792 | - William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
- The first ambulance.
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| 67 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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| 68 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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| 69 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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| 70 | 1797 | - John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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| 71 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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| 72 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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| 73 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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| 74 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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| 75 | 1804 | - Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
- Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
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| 76 | 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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| 77 | 1809 | - James Madison president of the USA 1809-1817.
- Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
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| 78 | 1810 | - May 1810 - Cuyahoga County organized.
- German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
- Peter Durand invents the tin can.
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| 79 | 1811 | - 25 Jan 1811 - Western boundary of Cuyahoga County defined.
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| 80 | 1812 | - 26 Jun 1812 - Hanging of the Indian 'Omic' in Cleveland.
- 18 Jun 1812 - War declared by the United States against the King of Great Britain. The war known as 'The War of 1812'.
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| 81 | 1814 | - George Stephenson designs a steam locomotive.
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph.
- German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
- The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
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| 82 | 1815 | - 23 Sep 1815 - Great September Gale of 1815. The hurricane struck with an 11 foot storm surge to Providence, Rhode Island. New London, Connecticut was also in the path of this great storm, as was Massachusetts and much of New England.
- Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
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| 83 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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| 84 | 1817 | - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 85 | 1819 | - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 86 | 1820 | - George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 87 | 1823 | - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 88 | 1824 | - Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
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| 89 | 1825 | - This year marks the start of construction on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
- John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 90 | 1827 | - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 91 | 1829 | - Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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| 92 | 1830 | - William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
- Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
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| 93 | 1831 | - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 94 | 1832 | - Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 95 | 1833 | - 12 Nov 1833 - 'Night the Stars Fell.' Great Leonid meteor shower seen across most of the U.S. So many meteors fell that the sky appeared to be on fire and in the middle of the night it was not dark.
- *-* Cleveland Water Company organized by Philo Scovill and several associates.
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| 96 | 1834 | - Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
- Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
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| 97 | 1835 | - Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
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| 98 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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