Martin Cornelissen Van Buren
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Cristyna Van Buren
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1644 - 1729

1638

1638 • Settlers from Sweden arrive on the ships Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip to establish the settlement of New Sweden in Delaware, beginning the Swedish colonization of the Americas.

1662


Age: 24y
1662 • The Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg:de:Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg is founded in Germany.

1665


Age: 27y
1665 • The English poet John Milton popularizes the Chinese sailing carriage in a famous poem; this peculiar Chinese invention was first written of in the West by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas of 1584.
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1670


Age: 32y
1670 • At Dover in England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis will give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch and convert to Catholicism himself.

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