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Events
First
Portuguese
governor
was appointed to
Macau
The
Swedish
city
Karlskrona
was founded as the
Royal Swedish Navy
relocated there.
July 8
- The first confirmed tornado in America killed a servant at
Cambridge, Massachusetts
.
August 21
-
Pueblo Indians
captured
Santa Fe
from
Spanish
during the
Pueblo Revolt
Births
January 23
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Joseph Ames
, author
September 22
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Barthold Heinrich Brockes
,
German
poet (d.
1747
)
John Machin
, English mathematician
Blackbeard
, pirate
Deaths
February 17
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Jan Swammerdam
, Dutch scientist (b.
1637
)
July 26
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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
, English poet (b.
1647
)
September 11
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Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
November 27
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Athanasius Kircher
, German Jesuit scholar
November 28
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
, Italian baroque sculptor (b.
1598
)
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