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Events. 1621: Dutch West India Company chartered, expands up the Hudson and Delaware rivers. [1] [2] [3] 1621: James I of England (VI of Scotland) grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland ( Nova Scotia ). [4] [5] 1625: the Baronet of Nova Scotia is founded. [6] 1625: French settlements in the West Indies begin ...
1795 or 1414 or 642. 1668 ( MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1668th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 668th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1660s decade.
Henri Charles de La Trémoille, 4th Duke of Thouars (17 December 1620 – 14 September 1672) was a French nobleman and military commander. He was the son of Henry de La Trémoille, duc of Thouars and of La Trémoille, and his wife, Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne . In 1628, La Trémoille's father, Henri de La Trémoïlle, converted himself and his ...
Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
List of English monarchs. Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages. Listed in red are The Heptarchy, the collective name given to the seven main Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms located in the southeastern two-thirds of the island that were unified to form the Kingdom of England. This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England ...
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology.
1093 AH / 1682 AD. Cairo, Egypt. Academic work. Notable works. Khizānat al-adab wa-lubb lubab lisān al-ʻArab. ' Abd al-Qadir ibn 'Umar al-Baghdadi ( Arabic: عبد القادر بن عمر البغدادي; 1030–1093 AH / 1620–1682 AD) was an author, philologist, grammarian, magistrate, bibliophile and a leading literary encyclopedist of ...
