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Day of marriage June 14, 1660

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  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1660: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 23 » Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
  • May 21 » The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy.
  • October 17 » The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
  • November 28 » At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
  • December 8 » A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
  • December 31 » James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

Day of death February 29, 1704

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1704: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
  • February 29 » Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
  • April 24 » The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
  • August 4 » War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
  • August 13 » War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
  • December 6 » Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1600 » Caspar Hennenberger, German pastor, historian and cartographer (b. 1529)
• 1604 » John Whitgift, English archbishop and academic (b. 1530)
• 1740 » Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
• 1744 » John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1683)
• 1792 » Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)