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

marriage

Marytjie Pieterse Quackenbosch
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1662 • Samuel Pepys witnesses a Punch and Judy show in London (the first on record).

Age: 27y

Cornelia Martense Van Buren
Albany, New York, USA ⇓
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1665 • The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

about

Age: 32y

Pieter Van Buren
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1670 • Louis XIV of France authorises work to commence on the construction of Les Invalides a veterans hospital in Paris.

Nov 13
Age: 65y

Rensselaerswyck, New York, USA ⇓
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1703 • An earthquake hits the town of L'Aquila, Italy.