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1641 AD - A massive epidemic breaks out in northern and central China, just three years before the fall of the Ming dynasty. It races south down along the Grand Canal of China and the densely populated settlements there, from the northern terminus at Beijing, to the fertile Jiangnan region. In some local areas and towns it wipes out 90% of the local populace.

1642 The Bishops Exclusion Act was passed in England to prevent any member of the clergy from holding political office. No British monarch wishes to have to face a second Thomas Becket.

1643 is the sum of first 46 composite numbers

1644, the decimal Unicode code for the Arabic thousands separator.

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Yet another common chord progression, aka the 50s progression or doo wop progression.

There are 1646 graphs with 8 nodes and 14 edges

On June 16th 1647, Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, was crowned as the King of Hungary and Croatia at Pressburg.

1648 has been suggested as possibly the last year in which the overall human population declined, coming towards the end of a broader period of global instability which included the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Thirty Years' War, the latter of which ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.

In 1649, Charles I of England goes on trial, for treason and other "high crimes".

STARLINK 1650

Launched: 5 October 2020
Flight ended: 26 June 2023

Launch site: Air Force Eastern Test Range, Florida, USA
Owner: United States

“1651”, a rougelike action game on Steam, which costs $0.99.

1652 With Cromwell's abolition of the monarchy, the union of England and Scotland under the Stuart dynasty was no more, so the English passed a law commanding the union. In exchange, Scots would have 30 representatives in the English parliament. Yet, as Charles Stuart had escaped, Cromwell's victory was fragile.

On the date 1/6/53, Stalin finally dies

1654 The Treaty of Westminster ended the First Anglo-Dutch War.

Panacol Vitralit 1655 is a low viscosity, UV adhesive. It is flexible and transparent in colour and was designed for the bonding and coating of a wide range of substrates. It offers a good adhesions to many material including plastics.

1656 USD can be exchanged for 6224637.38 Ugandan Shillings. Inflations is a big problem there!

16.57 Fathoms is equal to 0.016362428 Nautical Miles.

Kepler-1658 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star. Its mass is 5.88 Jupiters, it takes 3.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, ...

JustAGuyNamedWill wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:00 pm

Kepler-1658 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star. Its mass is 5.88 Jupiter's, it takes 3.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, ...

And given that Jupiter is about 1300 times the size of Earth, this planet is really massive.

1659 AD The British first settled on Saint Helena island. One hundred fifty-six years later, the island will receive its most prominent inhabitant and enemy of Britain, Napoleon I Buonaparte.

1660 Wood, provisional designation 1953 GA, is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was named after British–South African astronomer Harry Edwin Wood. 1660 Wood was discovered on 7 April 1953, by South African astronomer Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa.It was the second numbered discovery made by Bruwer. He also discovered the minor planets 1658 Innes, 1794 Finsen, and 3284 Niebuhr.