1590
| 1590 • Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland. |
1614
Aug 28
Age: 24y
birth of childPieter Quackenbosch Oestgest, Netherlands ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1614 • Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system. |
1656
Age: 66y
| 1656 • The ship Vergulde Draeck is wrecked off Ledge Point, Western Australia after it departs the Cape of Good Hope; rescue missions fail to find survivors. |