See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
The Netherlands establish a trading colony at Kaohsiung on Taiwan.
The Dutch establish a settlement on Manhattan.
Oslo is destroyed by fire. When rebuilt by
Christian IV, it would be
renamed Christiania.
Claudio Monteverdi publishes Tancredi e Clorinda.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac publishes his Lettres.
Bernardo de Balbuena publishes El Bernardo.
Santa Rosalia makes a miraculous appearance during a plague in Palermo.
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) first recorded in America.
Jakob Bartsch records the constellation Camelopardalis.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School is founded.
The Palace of Versailles is first built, as a hunting lodge.
Chateau Cheverny begins construction.
Births:
July -
George Fox, Quakers founder (+ 1691).
October 30 -
Paul Pellisson, French author (+ 1693).
Koxinga, Chinese military leader (+ 1662).
Père François de La Chaise (+ 1709).
Baptized:
October 1 -
Caterijnken van der Willigen.
Deaths:
December 26 -
Simon Marius, German astronomer.
Francesco Andreini, Italian actor.
Gaspard Bauhin, botanist.
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