1636
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years: 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 - 1636 - 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641
Events
- Utrecht University founded.
- The first American ancestor of John Adams emigrates to Massachusetts.
- Harvard University is founded.
- Dedham,_Massachusetts is incorporated.
- First performance of Pierre Corneille's play, Le Cid[?]
- Manchurian Later Jin dynasty was renamed to Qing Dynasty.
A simple reflection will impress
cultivation: the country.html">country was extremely populous; the inhabitants
exportation, particularly of wheat, was so regular and plentiful, that
On a sudden the seven fruitful provinces, from Tangier to Tripoli,
rage has perhaps been exaggerated by popular animosity, religious
perpetual violation of humanity and justice; and the hostilities of
incessantly disturbs their peaceful and domestic society. The Vandals,
their valiant countrymen were expiated by the ruin of the cities under
sex, or rank, they employed every species of indignity and torture, to
policy of Genseric justified his frequent examples of military
those of his followers; and the calamities of war were aggravated by
Yet I shall not easily be persuaded, that it was the common practice
country where they intended to settle: nor can I believe that it was a
the walls of a besieged city, for the sole purpose of infecting the
been the first victims.
The generous mind of Count Boniface was tortured by the exquisite
rapid progress he was unable to check. After the loss of a battle he
enemy, who considered him as the real bulwark of Africa. The maritime
, about two hundred miles westward of Carthage, had formerly acquired
kings; and some remains of trade and populousness still adhere to.
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