Hanover

City · c. 1709 CE · in Europe

Capital of Electorate of Hanover (1709–1802), Kingdom of Hanover (1814–1865).

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• Rembrandt (1606 CE – 1669 CE): Dutch painter and printmaker from Leiden who worked in Amsterdam. A master of light and shadow, he is considered the greatest artist of the Dutch Golden Age.
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• John Locke (1632 CE – 1704 CE): English philosopher and physician, a founder of empiricism and liberalism, whose Two Treatises of Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding argued for natural rights, government by consent and knowledge from experience.
• Louis XIV (1638 CE – 1715 CE): The 'Sun King', King of France from 1643 to 1715, the longest recorded reign of any major European monarch. He embodied absolute monarchy and moved his court to Versailles.
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665 CE): Johannes Vermeer’s painting of a girl in an exotic turban and a large pearl earring, looking over her shoulder; a tronie rather than a portrait. It is in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.
• Battle of Vienna (1683 CE): In September 1683 a relief army under King John III Sobieski of Poland defeated the Ottomans besieging Vienna. It began the Habsburg reconquest of Hungary.

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