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Nautical Almanac

Name: Nautical Almanac – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Science / Navigation. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1767Date range

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1Places

Chronological records

1767

Nevil Maskelyne1767

Greenwich · Science / Navigation

Publishes the Nautical Almanac to aid longitude calculation.

Names involved

Nevil Maskelyne

Provenance

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