City in Massachusetts, United States; county seat of Franklin County. Its founding is dated to 1686 in what is now the United States. It was part of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 2nd Berkshire district and Massachusetts Senate's Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester district. Its population today is about 17,800.
Before and after
- 1685Construction of Ashmolean Museum
- 23 February 1685Birth of George Frideric Handel
- 21 March 1685Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1 October 1685Birth of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1686Founding of Greenfield
- from 1686 to 1700Third Russo-Turkish War
- 24 May 1686Birth of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
- 1687Publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 5 July 1687Newton's laws of motion
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The era
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