1704 Gallery

Boxing/Jack Broughton

English boxer; third heavyweight champion of England (? - 1750); operated a boxing school and arena, London (1742-89); invented boxing rules and gloves

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1704 Gemelli Map of the Aztec Migration

1704 Gemelli Map - According to legend on exactly May 24, 1065 CE, the Mexica (Aztec) began an epic migration from their ancestral homeland, Aztlan, which translated means Place of Reeds or Place of Egrets, to the shores of Lake Texcoco, in Mexicos Central Mesa. There they founded the city of Tenochtitlan which in time spawned the vast Aztec Empire. Date: 1065

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Old Vreeland House, Nutley, New Jersey, USA

Old Vreeland House or Homestead (built 1704), Chestnut Street, Nutley, New Jersey, USA. It was the home of the Dutch painter Bastian Van Giesen or Giessen. Date: circa 1907

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