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1614
Aug 28
| 1614 • Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General of the Northern Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "New Netherland". |
1640
Age: 25y
marriageMaritje Ariens 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1640 • Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded. |
1646
Age: 31y
birth of childMaritje Pieterse Quackenbosch 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1646 • Joseph Jenkes, in Massachusetts, receives the first colonial machine patent. |
1653
Age: 38y
| 1653 • 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces off the Texel; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet. |
1686
Jan 4
Age: 71y
| 1686 • In Greece, Ottoman-occupied Morea (i.e., the Peloponnese) falls to the Venetians. |