17th Century (FASA)

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Reference Stardate -4/0001 through -4/9912

1609

• Galileo develops the microscope.

1617

Klinzhai (FASA 2222)

• c.RSD -4/82: The earliest known Klingon literature, a crude epic poem about a great war, is composed. The poem tells of the conflict between the komerex Nevre (Northern Empire) and falgav a'kavna (Crescent Islanders). According to the poem, wars raged between these two groups for decades before the Northern Empire swallowed up the Crescent Islanders. Then, the poem relates, a series of conflicts with the komerex Klingon (Empire of the People) began, which lasted "for a thousand times a thousand nights." This is the earliest known reference to "the Klingon Empire."

1628

• William Harvey discovers the circulation of blood.

1674

• Anton Van Leewenhoek observes cells and bacteria in the body.

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