In this way, in the mid-seventeenth century, Canada's first reserves were created. From Wordnik.com. [The IndianYesterday, Today and Tomorrow] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century, the Fifth Dalai Lama had pure visions of dzogchen. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of Dzogchen] Reference
A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Ming Dynasty] Reference
During the early and mid-seventeenth century, as many as four men arrived for every woman. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Hiro Nakamura is still in the mid-seventeenth century teaching Tekezo Kensei on being a hero. From Wordnik.com. [Theories For Episode 4 for Season 2 of Heroes] Reference
The largest witch-hunt in mid-seventeenth century New England occurred in Hartford, Connecticut. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Take a journey back to the dawn of the age of piracy in the Caribbean, in the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [“The Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, The Epic Battle For the Americas, And the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaw’s Bloody Reign” by Stephen Talty (Crown, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, the system of Virginia slavery developed and became codified. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
The Manchus, a non-Han Chinese people of northeast Asia, ruled China from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [Current Situation of Buddhism in the World] Reference
Things might have been bad for Christmas in England in the mid-seventeenth century, but in the United States, condi-tions were even worse. From Wordnik.com. ["The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits"] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century, the British and the Dutch each saw the other as a competitor, and several times during that period they were at war. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
The main influx of Kashmiri and Ladakhi Muslim immigrants to Tibet, however, occurred during the mid-seventeenth century reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of the Muslims of Tibet] Reference
His philosophical commitments can be gleaned from the contributions he made to scientific and theological debates in France in the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Blaise Pascal] Reference
The area was settled in the mid-seventeenth century by immigrants from the Low Countries who farmed and herded cattle in the marshy land around Jamaica Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Old Brooklyn] Reference
Bernier, who wrote about his travels in Hindustan during the mid-seventeenth century, supports the claim of widespread consumption of Central Asian fruit in India. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference
Historically, the Patience Island Farm covered an area of approximately 200 acres, nearly the entire island, and was a working farm as early as the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century, Thomas Fuller wrote that "commonly, physicians, like beer, are best when they are old; and lawyers, like bread, when they are young and new.". From Wordnik.com. [Health Care in a New Society] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century it spread to what the Manchus soon called "Inner Mongolia," where the Mongols built the first monastic college dedicated specifically to Kalachakra. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 2 Overview of Kalachakra] Reference
This great tradition was broken in the mid-seventeenth century, and a small linguistic change marks the break point: people stopped talking about felicity, and began to talk about happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Because of widespread famine in their homeland in the mid-seventeenth century CE, a group of Kashmiri Muslim immigrants settled in Lhasa, Tibet, during the political reign of the Fifth Dalai Lama. From Wordnik.com. [A Buddhist View of Islam] Reference
Much is also made of the tragic circumstance that the arresting agent for the disease, cinchona bark or quinine, was known on the European continent by mid-seventeenth century but that little use was made of it. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
Still, such stories notwithstanding, it is true that he lasted ten years in one of the highest and most demanding diplomatic postings of his day (Sweden being of the superpowers of mid-seventeenth century Europe). From Wordnik.com. [Hugo Grotius] Reference
The Enlightenment originated in the Netherlands and England in the mid-seventeenth century but reached its high-water mark in French RATIONALISM and MATERIALISM finding political expression in the French REVOLUTION. From Wordnik.com. [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference
How is one to know how much smallage was got for a penny in mid-seventeenth century?. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
43It seems that both internal and global changes contributed to the collapse of cowry currency in Yunnan during the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century, owing to the conflict between the older and the newer schools, no appreciable advance was made in motet-writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
This work, with its quaint sentiments and its grim picture of what librarians were like in the mid-seventeenth century, is more than a curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650)] Reference
While the Ashkenazic population continued to grow over the following centuries, at the beginning of the modern epoch, the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Are free trade agreements necessary?] Reference
Quakers, known more formally as the Religious Society of Friends, have maintained a stand against war since their beginnings in mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Ekklesia] Reference
28“In the mid-seventeenth century”: See Scholem, The Messianic Idea, pp. 58–141, and Scholem, Sabbatai S.evi: The Mystical Messiah: 1626–1676, trans. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
In the mid-seventeenth century, there was a quiet spell on the sun, known as the Maunder Minimum, which lasted 70 years and led to a mini-Ice Age here on Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog] Reference
Then, in the mid-seventeenth century, political factionalism, fiscal crisis, famine, and epidemic disease opened the door to rebellion within and incursions from without. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
Potosí, the fabulous city of silver in Bolivia, was, by the mid-seventeenth century, one of the world's largest cities, with metal-bedecked cathedrals and streets made of silver. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
The stories claim the thing vanished, or moved on, or died, somewhere in the early-to mid-seventeenth century.”. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Brothers]
England, in the mid-seventeenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story] Reference
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