• the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman, his father George Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia?
• the Hunnestad Monument (pictured), one of Scandinavia's largest Viking memorials, was destroyed at the end of the 18th century?
• in the late 18th century, Russian ambassadors to Poland had power that rivalled and even exceeded that of the Polish king or parliament?
• criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
• by the end of the 18th century, Native American women were decorating cloth with intricate ribbon work appliqué using French silk ribbon?
• the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
• the Banksia menziesii (pictured), named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy?
• the unfinished Ca' Rezzonico appears in a early 18th century painting of Venice's Grand Canal by Canaletto?
• the horseman depicted on the Coat of arms of Moscow (pictured) was not identified with Saint George until the 18th century?
• the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
• the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct (pictured) nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
• veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century?
• Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"?
• Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
• Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
• Wales had one of the highest literacy rates in eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan (pictured), who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"?
• Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries?
• 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie?
• Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
• Carl Johan Cronstedt increased the efficiency of wood-burning stoves in the 18th century by a factor of eight?
• Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage?
• Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain?
• Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands?
• Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by Ottoman rulers?
• 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?

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17th century

• 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
• 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
• aiguillettes (pictured) are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
• Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom?
• Bhima Devi Temple Complex (pictured) in Haryana, India, includes the restored ruins of a Hindu temple dated from the 8th to 11th century AD and Pinjore Gardens from the 17th century?
• Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
• Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian, and eccentric in the 17th century?
  
• Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet?
• Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer who played a key military role in 17th century Thailand?
• a 17th century Polish politician Mikołaj Sienicki held the office of marshal of the Sejm nine times and was called a 'Polish Demosthenes' for his oratory skills?

19th century

• 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
  
• 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?
• nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland's main export?
• California's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
• Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
• English opera singer and actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
• Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate, investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839?
• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?

16th century

• 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin?
• aiguillettes (pictured) are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
• Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century?
• Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
• panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
• Laments by 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula (pictured)?
• after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
• by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco (pictured) saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
• the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?
• the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent's daughter?

15th century

• Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
• Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam?
• Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances?
• Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands, since the 15th century?
• King James IV of Scotland once used Mingarry Castle as a stronghold for fighting off clan Donald in the late 15th century?
• the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
• the origins of the Carnival in Bern (pictured) can be traced back to the 15th century?

11th century

• Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?
• Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
• the Canon Episcopi, which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century, demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft?
• the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid-11th century?
• two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden?

6th century

• from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir?
• the exploits of the 6th century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of Antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus?

12th century

• among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev, there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart" due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?
• from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir?
• the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
• the MacHeths were a Gaelic kindred who raised several rebellions against the Scotto-Norman kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries?
• the Melisende Psalter, produced in the 12th century, is the most notable example of Crusader art?
• the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross?
• the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century illuminated manuscript, is prefaced by a forged letter purporting the manuscript to be the work of Pope Callixtus II?

20th century

• British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Elliott Carter, Rachmaninoff, Steve Reich and Stravinsky?
• Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the turn of the 20th century?
• Edward Lipiński was one of the most prominent Polish economists of the 20th century?
• Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall?
• Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century?
• Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?
• St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
• St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
• New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century?
• Dorothy was the longest-running musical stage production ever until the 20th century, with an initial run of 931 performances?

14th century

• abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall?
• Henry of Masovia, 14th century bishop of Płock, might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great?
• Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
• Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century?
• the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots?
• the Château de Lusignan, now in ruins, was so impressive that a 14th-century legend credited its construction to a water faery, Melusine—as a love-gift?
• the Jagiellonian Library (pictured) of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts?
• the Kondapalli Fort built in the 14th century was initially used as a business centre, but after the British took control in 1766 it was converted to a military training base?
• the War of the Two Peters, fought between Castile and Aragon during the 14th century, lasted 19 years?
• the Jami al-Tawarikh, a work of Persian literature by Rashid al-Din, was initially commissioned to document the history of the Mongols, but later expanded to cover the history of the entire world as known to Persians from the time of Adam to the 14th century?