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1638
| 1638 • Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. |
1662
Age: 24y
marriageMarytjie Pieterse Quackenbosch 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1662 • The Royal Society receives an official charter. |
1665
Age: 27y
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birth of childCornelia Martense Van Buren Albany, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1665 • Colonisation of Réunion begins with the French East India Company sending twenty settlers. |
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Age: 32y
1670
Age: 32y
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birth of childPieter Van Buren 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1670 • Welsh-born privateer in English service Henry Morgan recaptures Santa Catalina Island, Colombia. |
1703
Nov 13
Age: 65y
| 1703 • July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) (his release is granted in mid-November). |