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[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1684:


Jean-Antoine Watteau, pioneer of the Rocococococojoeshmococo style of painting, is born.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1685


George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer, is born in Germany.


Johann Sebastian Bach, also a Baroque composer, is also born in Germany.

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

Hey, DavidH! How am I supposed to race to 2013 posts and bring myself that much closer to Prophethood with you stealing my thunder?!

Year/Post 1683:



Adorable British wild boars are hunted to extinction.

(They were reintroduced in the 1980s though, albeit on farms.)

Dem wyuld bores must a bin goode viddles .

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1688:


Alexander Pope, poet, is born.


Henry Morgan, privateer, pirate, and Admiral of the British navy, dies.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1689:


Montesquieu, French political thinker, is born in a fancy castle.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1690:


The clarinet is invented.

[black bart]

Alexander Pope was a resident of Twickenham where I live. We still have "Pope's Grotto" which you can visit.

[DavidH]

Hey, DavidH! How am I supposed to race to 2013 posts and bring myself that much closer to Prophethood with you stealing my thunder?!

Sorry, ADoS, I didn't mean to do that. I still wasn't sure what we are meant to do in this thread. That's because I'm so old and doddery.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

DavidH:

Year/Post 1692:


Beginning of the Salem Witch Trials.

[StayThirstyMyAguila]

The first comic book. The guy who's half-jackal is the main protagonist.