See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
March 18 -
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of
New Jersey to the Quakers.
May 17 - Trader
Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorerJacques Marquette
begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet discover the Mississippi River
The Kabuki actor
Sannjuro Ichikawa, aged 13, invents the Aragato style,
which features the Superman war-god.
Jean Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermoine.
The Dutch retake New York.
William of Orange saves Amsterdam and the province of Holland from
the French by opening the Sluice gates and flooding the country!
Births:
Baptized:
April 11 -
François de Vos.
September 24 -
Dr. Jacob van den Houte.
Deaths:
February 17 -
Molière, french theatre writer, director and actor, master of satire.
15 March -
Salvator Rosa, painter.
Interred:
September 2 -
Abraham Cornelisse van den Houten.
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