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1585
| 1585 • Queen Elizabeth I of England agrees to establish a protectorate over the Netherlands. |
1585
Nov 30
Age: 1y
| 1585 • Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially. |
1612
Age: 27y
marriageUrsula Blacknell Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1612 • Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope. |
1615
Age: 30y
| 1615 • The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta. |
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Age: 62y
1647
Mar
Age: 62y
| 1647 • Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. |
1647
Mar 27
| 1647 • Battle of Dungan's Hill: Irish forces are defeated by English Parliamentary forces. |