[Game] Count to 10,000

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1636 - Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.

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1637 Plymouth Colony grants the "tenn menn of Saugust" a new settlement on Cape Cod, later named Sandwich, Massachusetts.

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1638 Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy and goes to Rhode Island.

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1639 Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.

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1640 - 41 Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.

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1641 King Charles I of England gives his assent to the Triennial Act, reluctantly committing himself to parliamentary sessions of at least fifty days every three years

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1642 -– First Battle of Lostwithiel.

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1643 Louis XIV succeeds Louis XIII as King of France at age five. His rule will last until his death at age 77 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.

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1644 -  – Pope Innocent X succeeds Pope Urban VIII as the 236th pope.

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1645 English Civil War – Battle of Naseby: 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.

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21 December 1646 - Global temperatures begin to decline as part of the Little Ice Age

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1647 The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referendums and initiatives on legislation

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1648 -  The Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.

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1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is found guilty of treason in a public session. He is beheaded three days later, outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London.

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1650 -  – The Kolumbo volcano on Santorini experience a massive eruption