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[Grace47]

Ahoy, maties!

1668- Henry Morgan, the famous pirate and privateer of the Captain Morgan's rum, raided the Spanish ports of Porto Bello and Panama City. ! When Panama City lacked sufficent treasure, it was burned. Shiver me timbers!

[gumdropper1]

1668 = 2*2*3*139

[Cynna]

1669 Mt Etna killed 20,000

[gumdropper1]

Ooops I duplicated.

1670 = 2*5*167

[Ana Bellini]

1671: Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.

[Grace47]

1672 - Was a leap year in which the English and the French went to war against the Dutch. It would be nice to find a year in history without war.

[gumdropper1]

1673 = 7*239

[Grace47]

1674 - The Anglo Dutch war ends with the Treaty of Westminster.

[gumdropper1]

1675 = 5*5*67

[Cynna]

1676 100 years before 1776

[Grace47]

1677 - Ice cream becomes popular in Paris. It wasn't always popular? LOL!

[gumdropper1]

1678 = 2*839

[Cynna]

1679 Europe panics due to a comet

[Grace47]

1680 - Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard the Pirate) was born.

[Cynna]

1681 Peaceful thread. No one mad at me. No one sad.

[Grace47]

1682 - Bartholomew Roberts a.k.a Black Bart the pirate is born.

[Cynna]

1681 Doug really duplicated a year, OMG that never happens You ok???

[xbethany]

1682 or MDCLXXXII

[Grace47]

1683 - The British Parlament passes the Jamaica Act of 1683 which outlawed trade with pirate. La, la, la... thinking about pirates instead of scary things.

[Cynna]

1684 Patent granted for thimble. Woo Hoo

[gumdropper1]

1685 = 5*337

[Cynna]

1686 A satellite was spotted around Venus?????????Proof of ET????????????

[gumdropper1]

satellite = moon

1687 = 7*241

[Grace47]

1688- Edward Lloyd opens the first Lloyd's of London coffeehouse.

[Cynna]

1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois

Darn no ET in 1686

[Grace47]

1690 - the clarinet was invented.

[Cynna]

1691 William Penn makes Delaware a seperate government from Pennsylvania.

I played clarinet

[gumdropper1]

1692 = 2*2*3*3*47

[Grace47]

1693 - Mennonite/Amish religion started in Switzerland.

[Cynna]

1694 This is how my post count gets so high