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1657
birthVirginia, USA ⇓ This places Richard Gissege / Gissedge as being born prior to 1657 realistically to be a landowner in right by June 1678 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1657 • Brandenburg and Poland sign the Treaty of Wehlau. |
1702
Oct 2
Age: 45y
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birth of childChristian Gissage 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1702 • In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama) to become the capital of French Louisiana. |
1703
Age: 46y
| 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). |