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1652
| 1652 • First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. |
1684
Mar 29
Age: 32y
marriageAbigail Adams Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1684 • Tokyo University, formally registered as a university in 1877, had its predecessor established. |
1685
Age: 33y
birth of childEdward Higbee III Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1685 • James Stuart, Duke of York becomes James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland in succession to his brother Charles II (1630–1685), King of Great Britain since 1660. James II and VII reigns to 1688. |
1717
Age: 65y
| 1717 • François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans who at the time was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;Jean-Michel Raynaud, Voltaire soi-disant, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983, vol.1, p.289 Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe. |