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Events
January 14
-
Connecticut
's first constitution, the "
Fundamental Orders
," is adopted.
March 13
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Harvard University
is named for a clergyman named
John Harvard
.
November 24
-
Jeremiah Horrocks
observes the
transit of Venus
.
Charles I
starts the first of the
Bishops Wars
against
Scotland
.
The
Casiquiare canal
, a river forming a natural canal between the
Amazon River
and
Orinoco River
basins, is first encountered by Europeans.
The
Barbados
House of Assembly meets for the first time.
The first
printing press
in
North America
is started in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
.
Russian
Cossacks
advance over
Urals
to
Pacific
, to
Okhotsk
.
Montreal
first settled
Births
June 21
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Increase Mather
, New England Puritan minister (d.
1723
)
December 22
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Jean Racine
, French dramatist
Yair Bacharach
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German
rabbi
Deaths
August 20
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Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
, German poet (b.
1597
)
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