1601: 1601 is a squib by Mark Twain. (Strawberry)
1602: Marvel 1602 is an 8-issue comic book that sets the Marvel superheroes in Elizabethan England. (Big Martin)
1603: Also in 1603, Johanner Bayer published the star atlas Uranometria, the first to cover the entire celestial sphere. (Strawberry)
1604: Kepler's Supernova was a type 1a supernova that was observed by Johannes Kepler (surprise surprise) in 1604 and the most recent one in the Milky Way with unquestionable naked eye visibility from Earth. (AlmondFacialBar)
1605: On the 16th of May, 1605, Pope Paul V succeeded Pope Leo XI as the 233rd pope, making this the last Year of Three Popes until 1978. (Strawberry)
1606: There are 1606 calories in one pound of White Wheat Flour (All Purpose, Self-Rising, Enriched). (Ed.)
1607: In 1607, Giovanni Antonio Magini published his book De astrologica ratione that defended the use of astrology in medicine. (vanjeet)
1608: In 1608 the County Antrim landowner Sir Thomas Phillipps was granted a licence to distil whiskey by King James I. (AlmondFacialBar)
1609: In July 1609, Thomas Harriot drew maps of the Moon that he observed through a telescope. He preceded Galileo by a few months becoming the first person to draw a celestial object as viewed through a telescope. (vanjeet)
1610: 1610 Centres run various leisure centres in Somerset. (Big Martin)
1611: In April last year, the Canadian Border Services Agency moved its office to 1611 Main St Vancouver. (tetsabb)
1612: On the 28th of December 1612, Galileo first observed Neptune. (Alfred E Neuman)
1613: On the 29th of June, 1613, The Globe Theatre burnt down during a performance of Henry VIII. (Strawberry)
1614: Paragraph 1614 of the US Code of Federal Regulations concerns itself with equal employment opportunity. (AlmondFacialBar)
1615: The Grolsch brewery was founded in 1615. (Big Martin)
1616: William Shakespeare died on the 23rd of April, 1616. (Strawberry)
1617: Johannes Kepler begins publishing the first of seven books of Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, in 1617. (vanjeet)
1618: 1618 Investment Funds is an asset management company in Geneva. (AlmondFacialBar)
1619: In 1619, René Descartes had a dream that helped him develop his ideas on analytical geometry. (Strawberry)
1620: Lithium 1620 batteries are coin-shaped lithium manganese cells with a nominal voltage of 3V, for use where very low quiescent currents need to be maintained for very long periods with only occasional demands for high current drain. (tetsabb)
1621: 17th April, 1621, saw the birth of twin brothers Thomas and Henry Vaughan, one of whom grew up to be a philosopher and one a poet. (AlmondFacialBar)
1622: The Indian Massacre of 1622, in which the Powhatan Confederacy attacked and killed almost a quarter of the English population of Jamestown, Virginia (then an English colony). (vanjeet)
1623: Anne Hathaway died on the 6th of August, 1623. (Strawberry)
1624: In 1624 the French parliament passed a law making criticism of Aristotle punishable by death. (Big Martin)
1625: Chrysalis Records had the label code 1625. (AlmondFacialBar)
1626: Cafe 1626 is in South Austin, Texas. (tetsabb)
1627: Don't see an apostrophe, so I guess yes. Francis Bacon's unfinished work New Atlantis was published in English in 1627. (vanjeet)
1628: The Tonelux 1628 is an analogue 16 track mixing console. (AlmondFacialBar)
1629: The 1629 Restaurant is in Lossiemouth. (Big Martin)
1630: ISBN 978-3-8439-1630-1 is a doctoral thesis submitted to the TU Dortmund in 2014 on process engineering. (AlmondFacialBar)
1631: US Environment Protection Agency Method 1631 allows for the determination of mercury at a minimum level of 0.5 parts-per-trillion and supports measurements for mercury published in the National Toxics Rule and in the Final Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes System. Includes Guidance for Implementation and Use of Method 1631 and Revision E to the method, which contain additional and revised requirements. (tetsabb)
1632: 1632 is a series of alternate history novels by Eric Flint, set in the fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000. The town is sent back in time to central Germany in the year 1631. (vanjeet)
1633: 1633 Broadway is a mixed use building containing two theatres and a range of highfalutin office spaces, located between W 50th and W 51 St. (AlmondFacialBar)
1634: In 1634 the island of Curaçao was captured by the Dutch. (Big Martin)
1635: The protein encoded by Gene 1635 catalyzes the deamination of dCMP to dUMP, the nucleotide substrate for thymidylate synthase. (tetsabb)
1636: Harvard University was established in 1636. (vanjeet)
1637: European Assembly Resolution 1637 of 2008 is to do with migrants coming across the Mediterranean. (tetsabb)
1638: 1638 is an Ore number, which is a positive integer whose divisors produce an integer harmonic mean. A harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of a given set of numbers. (vanjeet)
1639: Dublin Bus stop 1639 is on the intersection of Swords Road and Schoolhouse Lane in Santry. (AlmondFacialBar)
1640: 1640 mm appears to be a standard height of bath. (tetsabb)
1641: Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in North America in 1641. (vanjeet)
1642: On August 22 1642 Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham castle, effectively declaring war against the parliament. Legend has it that the standard subsequently fell down. 350 years later the Sealed Knot re-enacted the raising of the royal standard at Nottingham castle. During the night the standard was blown down. (Big Martin)
1642: 1642 Records is a Hungarian House music label. (AlmondFacialBar)
1643: Torricelli invented the mercury barometer in 1643. (vanjeet)
1644: The Model 1644 Tucker-Terra is a Sno-Cat. (Big Martin)
1645: The law of gravitation was first suggested (not in its well-know form) by Ismaël Bullialdus in 1645. (vanjeet)
1646: In 1646 Charles I surrendered to the Scots Army as events were going badly for him. Things were to get even worse, however! (Big Martin)
1647: Blue1647 is a social innovation centre focused on tech education and entrepeneurship in Chicago. (AlmondFacialBar)
1648: In 1648, George Fox founded the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. (Strawberry)
1649: Rather predictably, I will mark 1649 in commenting that early in this year Charles I lost his head! (Big Martin)
1650: Under the 1650 Blasphemy Act, English radical Jacob Bauthumley was arrested, convicted and had his tongue pierced on account of his book The Light and Dark Sides of God. (Strawberry)
1651: Cast A Bell by the group 1651 is a selection of tunes from Playford's The Dancing Master and was released (and the group's name taken) to mark the 350th anniversary of its publication. (Big Martin)
1652: Cosmographie was published in 1652 in which Peter Heylin attempted to describe the entire world in English. It is famous for containing the first description of Australia. (vanjeet)
1653: Sarah Good was born on the 11th of July, 1653. She was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials, which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts. (Strawberry)
1654: On 8th May, 1654, Otto von Guericke, mayor of Magdeburg and experimental physicist, demonstrated the existence of vacuums in front of the Imperial Diet of Regensburg using the world's first vacuum pump, two copper hemispheres, both of his own invention, and 30 horses, not of his own invention. The copper hemispheres became known as the Magdeburg Hemispheres after his hometown, because they were just that cool. (AlmondFacialBar)
1655: The Monroe 1655 was a scientific calculator from the 1970s, weighing "only" 12½ pounds. (vanjeet)
1656: The peak of Jadovnik (in Drvar, Bosnia-Herzegovina) is 1656 metres above mean sea level. (PDR)
1657: Russian SS-N-12 Sandbox anti-ship and anti-surface missiles (as carried by Moskva-class guided missile cruisers) have a cruise speed of Mach 2.2 (1657mph). (PDR)
1658: On the 22nd of March, 1658, the ship Waeckende Boey was wrecked on the coast of Java; the four survivors walked overland to Jepara. (Strawberry)
1659: Adnams Brewery of Southwold produces 1659 Smoked Ruby Beer, the name coming from the Great Fire of Southwold of that year. (Big Martin)
1660: On the 8th of December, 1660, the first actress appeared on the professional stage in England in a non-singing role, as Desdemona in Othello, following reopening of the theatres. She is variously considered to be Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall or Katherine Corey. (Strawberry)
1661: In June 1661, Isaac Newton was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. (vanjeet)
1662: The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. (Strawberry)
1663: During WW2 the only public details of a particular facility were its address: PO Box 1663, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The facility was the "Los Alamos Laboratory", home to the Manhattan project to develop the first nuclear weapons. (PDR)
1664: NCC-1664 was the reg number of the USS Excalibur, which was totalled with a loss of all crew in 2268 when, during a war games exercise, M-5, an experimental computer controlling the Enterprise at the time, malfunctioned and fired its phasers at full power while the Excalibur's deflector shields were at minimum setting. (AlmondFacialBar)
1665: On the 12th of April, 1665, Margaret Porteous was the first person to die in the Great Plague of London. (Strawberry)
1666: ATCC® CRL-1666™ is a cancerous cell culture for lab use taken from brown rat mammaries. (AlmondFacialBar)
1667: 1667 Pels (1930 SY) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on the 16th of September, 1930 by H.van Gent at Johannesburg (LS). (Strawberry)
1668: The Ballymurrin Quaker Farmstead is a still-lived-in Wicklow farmhouse, built in 1668, which offers guided tours to visitors. (AlmondFacialBar)
1669: Elisabeth Pepys (wife of Samuel Pepys) died on the 10th of November, 1669. (Strawberry)
1670: J. Herbin 1670 is a calligraphy ink available in red, blue and charcoal. (AlmondFacialBar)
1671: On the 9th of May, 1671, Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He was immediately caught because he was too drunk to run with the loot. He was later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II. (Strawberry)
1672: California Legislature bill AB-1672 concerns itself with truancy. (AlmondFacialBar)
1673: The playwright Moliere died in 1673. (Big Martin)
1674: The poet Robert Herrick died in October of 1674. (Strawberry)
1675: Giovanni Cassini discovered a division between Saturn's rings in 1675. (vanjeet)
1676: In 1676, mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz took up a post as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick. (Strawberry)
1677: On the 23rd April, 1677 a whale wasstranded alive in the Wivner River (thought to be the Colne River now) six miles down from Colchester, but eventually died. The event was seen as newsworthy enough for a special tract to be printed on it. (AlmondFacialBar)
1678: Martin Lister's English Spiders was published in 1678. It was the first book devoted to spiders. (vanjeet)
1679: In 1679, Malpas Tunnel on the Canal du Midi in Hérault, France, Europe's first navigable canal tunnel, was excavated by Pierre-Paul Riquet (165 m, concrete lined). (Strawberry)
1680: The 1680 painting La Monstrua Denuda by Juan Carreño de Miranda is thought to be one of the earliest pictures of a person with Prader Willi Syndrome. (AlmondFacialBar)
1681: On the 15th of May, 1681, the Canal du Midi in France was opened officially as the Canal Royal du Languedoc. (Strawberry)
1682: On the 25th of August, 1682, following the Bideford witch trial, three women became the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter. (Strawberry)
1683: The Battle of Vienna is a battle that took place on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city of Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. (Awitt)
1684: In 1684, Japanese poet Saikaku composed 23, 500 verses in 24 hours at the Suniyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes could not keep pace with his dictation and just counted the verses. (Strawberry)
1685: The Operator for the Teeth by Charles Allen was the first English textbook on dentistry, published in 1685 (vanjeet)
1686: In 1686, English historian and naturalist Robert Plot published The Natural History of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county. It was the first document known to mention crop circles and a double sunset. (Strawberry)
1687: The 5th July, 1687 saw the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. (AlmondFacialBar)
1688: In 1688 Britain overthrew James II (VII of Scotland) for collaboration with the demon Frenchies in what became known as the Glorious Revolution. (PDR)
1689: Aphra Behn died on the 16th of April, 1689. (Strawberry)
1690: Justine Siegemund published Die Kgl. Preußische und Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter, or The Court Midwife in 1690. (vanjeet)
1691: CO-1691-S14 from Che Che New York is a coin purse in the shape of a cartoon lapdog that looks as though it's targeted at particularly tasteless three-year-olds. (AlmondFacialBar)
1692: On the 10th of June 1692, the Salem witch trial investigations and convictions led to several months of hangings. By the end of September 14 women including Bridget Bishop and five men had been hanged. On September 19, another man Giles Corey, was pressed to death in an attempt to coerce a plea from him to the accusation of witchcraft. (Strawberry)
1693: The CAT 1693 is a kind of engine used in large American trucks. (tetsabb)
1694: The ship Ridderschap van Holland left the Cape of Good Hope on 5 February 1694, after which it was never heard from again. (vanjeet)
1695: In 1695, a £2 fine was imposed for swearing in England. (Strawberry)
1696: 1696 is a model of 'pants' sold by the Simplicity Creative Group, offering "fly front, contoured waist band and front slash pockets. Individual pattern pieces included for slim, average and curvy fit". (tetsabb)
1697: On 4th November, 1697, two UFOs were allegedly sighted over Hamburg. (AlmondFacialBar)
1698: The Shepherd Neame Brewery was founded in 1698. (vanjeet)
1699: May the 4th, 1699 was the date of the beginning of Gulliver's Travels (1726). (Strawberry)
1700: 1700 mm is a standard length of bath. (tetsabb)
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