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1618 Establishments In Italy
Events January–June * February 26 – Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman sultan (until 1622). * March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (after some initial calculations, he soon rejects the idea, but on May 15 confirms the discovery). * April 21 – Spanish-born Jesuit missionary Pedro Páez becomes (probably) the first European to see and describe the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. * May 23 – The Second Defenestration of Prague – Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial, and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany (Imperial Governors) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt (1618–1621), precipitating the Thirty Years' War into armed conflict, and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds. * June 14 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper '' Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prager
Prager (variants: Praeger, Preger) is a surname, which may refer to: Prager * David Prager (born 1977), American TV producer and blogger * Dennis Prager (born 1948), U.S. conservative radio talk show host, columnist and public speaker ** PragerU, a right-wing conservative non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic and philosophical topics * Felice Prager (born 1953), nee Klein, U.S. author, journalist, educational therapist * Joshua P. Prager (born 1949), US physician * Joshua Harris Prager, US journalist * Mark Prager Lindo (1819–1879), Anglo-Dutch prose writer of English-Jewish descent * Richard Prager (1883–1945), German-American astronomer * Richard Prager (skier), West German para-alpine skier * Susan Westerberg Prager (born 1942), Association of American Law Schools Executive Vice President and Executive Director from 2008 * Walter Prager (1910–1984), Swiss alpine skier * William Prager (1903–1980), German-born US physicist Fictional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
