1614
Dec 26
| 1614 • Ottoman forces invade Malta for the last time in the Raid of Żejtun. |
1640
Age: 24y
marriagePieter Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1640 • End of the Iberian Union: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie causes John IV of Portugal to be acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until the end of the Portuguese Restoration War in 1668. |
1646
Age: 30y
birth of childMaritje Pieterse Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1646 • Joseph Jenkes, in Massachusetts, receives the first colonial machine patent. |
1653
Age: 37y
| 1653 • Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament in England. |
1682
Dec 27
Age: 68y
| 1682 • Iyasus succeeds his father Yohannes I as Emperor of Ethiopia. |