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1647 Shipwreck Ends in a Colony

On Sunday 25 March 1647, shortly after five o’clock in the afternoon, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Nieuw Haarlem or Haarlem wrecked in Table Bay, off the coast of South Africa. The events that followed had far-reaching consequences for the history of South Africa. 58 of the crew were repatriated by accompanying ships soon after the incident, but 62 men were left behind to try and salvage as much of the cargo as possible. They found refuge in a makeshift camp, where they lived for about one year. During their stay, the men from Haarlem came into  contact […]

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Events 1640s – Pascal’s Calculator

1642 Pascal’s Calculator Events 1640–1668: The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union. 1641: The Irish Rebellion, by Irish Catholics who wanted an end to discrimination, greater self-governance, and reverse ownership of the plantations of Ireland. 1641: René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy. 1642: Beginning of English Civil War, conflict will end in 1649 with the execution of King Charles I, the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the supremacy of Parliament over the king. 1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming dynasty. The subsequent Qing dynasty rules until 1912. 1645–1669: Ottoman war with Venice. The Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea. 1647–1652: The Great Plague of Seville. 1648: […]

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1648 Social Consequences of the Thirty Years’ War: Was it Worth it?

The Thirty Years’ War was a major European war that occurred during the 17 th century. Whilst the conflict took place mainly in the area of modern day Germany, it involved many of the great European powers at that time. The Thirty Years’ War had a profound impact on Europe, and some of the consequences of this war can be seen in the changes that were made to European society. The Beginning of a Brutal 30 Years The Thirty Years’ War began in 1618, and lasted until 1648. This war started off as a religious war that pitted Catholics against […]

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1641 Legend Ghostly Apparition Flying Dutchman starts

 Among nautical myths and legends, few are as famous as the Flying Dutchman. Many have claimed to see the ghostly vessel of Captain Hendrick van der Decken (the Dutchman) since it sank in 1641. It is because of his brash attitude in the face of God’s stormy wrath that Captain van der Decken and his crew are cursed to sail the high seas until doomsday. Captain van der Decken had made the perilous journey from Holland to the Far East Indies in order to purchase lucrative goods like spices, silks, and dyes. There had been close calls of course […]

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

If any one man laid the foundation of modern science, it was Galileo Galilei of Pisa. Gifted in mathematics and astronomy, he discovered the laws of falling bodies and, legend has it, demonstrated them by dropping objects from the top of the Leaning Tower. Among other achievements, he calculated the parabolic motion of projectiles, described the motion of objects rolling down an inclined plane, and invented a military compass and the pendulum clock. But he is best known for his astronomical feats. Hearing in 1609 that a spyglass had been invented in Holland, he built one of his own, turned […]

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1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam

May 11, 1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. With certainty that putting New Netherland to rights was the work which God had saved him for, he began the task of rebuilding the physical and moral state of the colony, returning it to being the kind of well-run place that the Dutch preferred. New Amsterdam in the early 1640s was a mess. Trash was strewn about the muddy streets, drunken sailors and farm animals ambled about, and New Netherland’s small population was […]

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