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1616
| 1616 • "Drink to me only with thine eyes" comes from Ben Jonson's love poem, To Celia. Jonson's poetic lamentation On my first Sonne is also from this year. |
1634
Age: 18y
| 1634 • Lord Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning here which later becomes Georgetown University, North America's oldest university. |
1635
Age: 19y
birth of childPaltiah Elderkin 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1635 • Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa against Taiwanese aborigines begins. |