Date unknown Wolsey, the clothes manufacturer, is established in Leicester, England; the business celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2005. Construction of the Puning Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church, is completed. The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.
Date unknown Wolsey, the clothes manufacturer, is established in Leicester, England; the business celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2005. Construction of the Puning Temple com.plex in Chengde, China is completed, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church, is completed. The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.