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1665
| 1665 • England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam). |
1689
Sep 22
Age: 24y
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marriageCornelia Martense Van Buren 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1689 • Boston revolt: Unpopular Governor of the Dominion of New England Sir Edmund Andros and other officials are overthrown by a "mob" of Bostonians. Andros, an appointee of James II of England, is disliked for his support of the Church of England and revocation of various colonial charters. |
1696
Aug 16
Age: 31y
birth of childTobias Robertsen Van Deusen Claverack, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1696 • John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. |
1700
Sep
Age: 35y
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birth of childRobert Robertsen Van Deusen Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1700 • Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who becomes Philip V of Spain (to 1746), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701. |
1720
Age: 55y
| 1720 • Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden resigns to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden. She had desired a joint rule, in a similar manner to William and Mary in Britain, but as the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates refuses this, she abdicates in her husband's favour instead. |