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1585
| 1585 • English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage. |
1585
Nov 30
Age: 1y
| 1585 • A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. This group will depart the following June. |
1612
Age: 27y
marriageUrsula Blacknell Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1612 • Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden. He persuades the Riksdag of the Estates to grant the Swedish nobility the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of government. |
1615
Age: 30y
| 1615 • Austrian merchants receive economic privileges in the Ottoman Empire. |
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Mar
Age: 62y
1647
Mar
Age: 62y
| 1647 • Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. |
1647
Mar 27
| 1647 • Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. |