1634
| 1634 • Lord Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning here which later becomes Georgetown University, North America's oldest university. |
1659
Age: 25y
marriageMayke Cornelise Barnavelt Holland ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1659 • Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium. |
1666
Age: 32y
birth of childGeertje Ysselsteyn New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1666 • Jean Talon completes a census of New France, the first census in North America. |
1675
Age: 41y
| 1675 • King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London; construction begins. |
1705
Age: 71y
| 1705 • The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country and hundreds of thoudands of gold pieces. |