Kangxi Dictionary
47,000 characters: the classic Chinese dictionary
On the Kangxi Emperor's orders scholars compiled in six years a dictionary of 47,035 characters arranged under 214 radicals. The radical system became standard and is still used to look up characters, and the dictionary remained the chief reference for Chinese writing into the 20th century.
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Europe
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 15 years earlier
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — 9 years earlier
- 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 16 years earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 13 years earlier
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 7 years earlier
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Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 6 years later
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- Isaac Newton (aged 73)
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- Ahmed III (aged 43)
- Vitus Bering (aged 35)