1614
Dec 26
| 1614 • Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia. |
1640
Age: 24y
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marriagePieter Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1640 • Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded. |
1646
Age: 30y
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birth of childMaritje Pieterse Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1646 • Joseph Jenkes, in Massachusetts, receives the first colonial machine patent. |
1653
Age: 37y
| 1653 • 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces off the Texel; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet. |
1682
Dec 27
Age: 68y
| 1682 • Celia Fiennes noblewoman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that would prove to be her life's work. Her aim was to chronicle the towns, cities and great houses of the country. Her travels continued until at least 1712, and would take her to every county in England, though the main body of her journal was not written until the year 1702. |