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1664
| 1664 • Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls. |
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Age: 34y
1698
Age: 34y
birth of childAnn Mothershead Virginia, USA ⇓ |
| 1698 • Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow: General Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion, with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated (tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself). |
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Age: 77y
1741
Age: 77y
| 1741 • The population of China reaches c. 143 million. |