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Christening day November 8, 1654

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  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1654: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 11 » Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.
  • February 9 » The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
  • May 5 » Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
  • June 7 » Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
  • August 22 » Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
  • October 12 » The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.

Day of death January 1, 1655

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  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1655: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
  • March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
  • July 31 » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
  • September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
  • December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
  • December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.

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• 1559 » Christian III, king of Denmark (b. 1503)
• 1560 » Joachim du Bellay, French poet and critic (b. 1522)
• 1617 » Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1558)
• 1697 » Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine historian and author (b. 1625)
• 1716 » William Wycherley, English playwright and poet (b. 1641)
• 1748 » Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1667)