August 25, 1688 — Pirate Henry Morgan dies
It’s not entirely fair to call Henry Morgan a pirate – he was actually more a privateer, serving the English...
September 19, 2021
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1689 — Pompeii is rediscovered
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it did so with considerable force. The very shape of the mountain was...
September 14, 2021
June 10, 1692 -– Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem
Accused of witchcraft and swiftly condemned and hanged for her supposed crimes, Bridget Bishop was the first person to be...
September 9, 2021
May 7, 1711 — David Hume born
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, David Hume’s parents were noble but impoverished, and he worked as a merchant’s assistant while seeking...
September 7, 2021
November 7, 1728 — James Cook born
James Cook, better known to history as Captain Cook, was born in Yorkshire, the second of eight children. After a...
September 4, 2021
July 28, 1750 — Johann Sebastian Bach dies
One of the best known and most loved composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach was 85 years old at...
August 24, 2021
April 14, 1759 — George Frideric Handel dies
Handel was 74 years old at the time of his death. Unmarried, he left much of his estate to a...
August 19, 2021
October 18, 1767 — Mason and Dixon complete the surveying of the Line between Maryland and Pennsylvania
Charles Mason, a fellow of the Royal Society and noted astronomer, and his sometime assistant, land surveyor and amateur astronomer,...
August 14, 2021
April 29, 1770 — Captain James Cook is the first European to make contact with Australian Natives
It was on his first voyage of discovery that Captain James Cook’s ship the Endeavour, sighted the eastern coast of...
August 9, 2021
August 27, 1770 — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born
Hegel was one of the most influential philosophers of his time. He built upon the work of Kant, Descartes, Hume...
August 4, 2021
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