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A német protestáns teológus, aki korábban, 1619-től maga is tanított Gyulafehérvárott, 1630-ban Herbornban adta ki tudományos ismerettárát Encyclopaedia philosophiae címen. Apáczaira nagy hatással volt ez a munka, és külhoni egyetemi tanulmányai során fogalmazódott meg benne a célkitűzés, hogy magyar nyelven és ...
11–14 March – Penruddock uprising: a Royalist uprising beginning in Wiltshire is defeated by a skirmish in South Molton. [1] 28 April – Admiral Robert Blake destroys the pirate fleet of the bey of Tunis. [1] 10–27 May – Anglo-Spanish War: Invasion of Jamaica – Forces led by William Penn and Robert Venables capture the island of ...
New Sweden ( Swedish: Nya Sverige, Finnish: Uusi-Ruotsi) was a Swedish colony in North America that existed from 1638 through 1655. [1] It was in the modern day states of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Its capital was Fort Christina, modern-day Wilmington . New Sweden was captured by the Dutch in 1655, and incorporated into New Netherland .
The Invasion of Jamaica took place in May 1655, during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War, when an English expeditionary force captured Spanish Jamaica. It was part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to acquire new colonies in the Americas, known as the Western Design . Although major settlements like Santiago de la Vega, now Spanish Town ...
Antony Brewer – The Lovesick King. Lodowick Carlell – The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2. Robert Daborne – The Poor Man's Comfort. Robert Davenport – King John and Matilda. Thomas Heywood and William Rowley – Fortune by Land and Sea. Philip Massinger – Three New Plays, a collection that included The Guardian, The Bashful Lover ...
Dutch ship. Eendracht. (1655) The Eendracht or Eendragt ("Concord" - more precisely translated as "Unity") was the flagship of the confederate navy of the United Provinces (a precursor state of the Netherlands) between 1655 and 1665. Eendragt was the more common spelling in the 17th century; Eendracht is the modern Dutch standard spelling.
Forester was Member of Parliament for the borough constituency of Wenlock from 1679 to 1685. In 1683 he was almost implicated in the Rye House Plot against Charles II, when a search revealed 50 muskets and pike heads were found hidden in an oven, and a large quantity of gunpowder buried on his estate. He paid off a heavy fine, allegedly helped ...
