1589
| 1589 • The monks of the Pechenga Monastery, the northernmost in the world, are massacred by Swedes led by a Finnish peasant chief in the course of the Russo-Swedish War. |
1612
Age: 23y
marriageJohn Hygebed Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, England ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1612 • Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor formally elected. |
1615
Age: 26y
| 1615 • Manuel Dias (Yang MaNuo), a Portuguese jesuit missionary introduces for the first time in China the telescope in his book Tian Wen Lüe (Explicatio Sphaerae Coelestis). |
1684
Age: 95y
| 1684 • The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford; hence smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea. |