Martin Cornelisz Ysselsteyn
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Geertje Ysselsteyn
Geertje Ysselsteyn
1666 - 1763

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
1659 Christiaan Huygens writes Systema Saturnium.

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.

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