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 • Jan van Riebeeck produces the first South African wine at the Cape of Good Hope. |
1666
Age: 32y
birth of childGeertje Ysselsteyn New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1666 • Second Anglo-Dutch War – St. James's Day Battle: The English fleet under Prince Rupert of the Rhine and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, defeats the Dutch off the North Foreland of England. |
1675
Age: 41y
| 1675 • Massachusetts troops march to Swansea to join the Plymouth troops. |
1705
Age: 71y
| 1705 • The Province of Carolina incorporates the town of Bath, making it the first incorporated town in present day North Carolina. The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of the Province of Carolina until Edenton is incorporated in 1722. |