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1672
Oct 19
| 1672 • Münster and Cologne begin their invasion of the Dutch Republic; hence 1672 becomes known as het rampjaar ("the disaster year") in the Netherlands. |
1697
Age: 24y
| 1697 • The Spanish conquest of Petén, and of Yucatán, is completed with the fall of Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya Kingdom, the last independent indigenous peoples of the Americas. |
1712
Jun 29
Age: 39y
baptismNew London, New London, Connecticut ⇓ At the First Church of Christ. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1712 • After many years of settlement, the "Town on Queen Anne's Creek" is established as a courthouse for Chowan County, North Carolina. The town is renamed Edenton in 1720 and incorporated in 1722. |
1719
Apr 5
Age: 46y
| 1719 • Battle of Glen Shiel: British forces defeat the Jacobites and their Spanish allies. |
1755
Sep 26
Age: 82y
| 1755 • The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ. |