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1670
| 1670 • 5 – William Penn and William Mead are tried in London for preaching a Quaker sermon. |
1701
Dec 28
Age: 32y
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birth of childMarten Pieterse Van Buren 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1701 • The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. |
1737
Age: 67y
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birth of childAbraham Van Buren Albany, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1737 • The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed. |
1737
Age: 67y
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birth of childAbraham Van Buren Albany, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1737 • Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war. |