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1585
| 1585 • The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar. |
1585
Nov 30
Age: 1y
| 1585 • Queen Elizabeth I of England agrees to establish a protectorate over the Netherlands. |
1612
Age: 27y
marriageUrsula Blacknell Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1612 • Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in a British victory. |
1615
Age: 30y
| 1615 • Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo), a Portuguese jesuit missionary introduces for the first time in China the telescope in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis). |
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Mar
Age: 62y
1647
Mar
Age: 62y
| 1647 • In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons. |
1647
Mar 27
| 1647 • Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. |