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1652
| 1652 • Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, thus founding Cape Town. |
1684
Mar 29
Age: 32y
marriageAbigail Adams Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1684 • King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn. |
1685
Age: 33y
birth of childEdward Higbee III Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1685 • René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near ([http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/fla4.html Texas Handbook]). |
1717
Age: 65y
| 1717 • The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the 'Modern' and first Free-Masonic Grand Lodge (which merges with the Ancient Grand Lodge of England in 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London. |