Search results for "1639" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In 1639, Rembrandt and Saskia moved to a prominent house in the Jewish quarter, which later became the Rembrandt House Museum. It was there that ...23 KB (3,470 words) - 03:58, 8 December 2022
- He took his B.A. in 1635, his M.A. in 1639, and immediately afterwards became a fellow of his college, turning down all other positions that ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Quito by way of the Napo River. He returned in 1639 with the two Jesuit fathers, Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña and Artieda, who had been delegated ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 15:24, 19 August 2023
- and a Lady in waiting to the Queen, in 1639-1640; this may have been instigated ... George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, ca. 1638–1639 ==Notes== ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- [[Image:Map of Jersey by G Mercator 1639..JPG|thumb|400px|right|This map of Jersey, published in 1639, shows interior details such as Le Mont ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- holding his spear in his right hand, by Bernini in 1639), St. Andrew (southeast, spread upon the cross which bears his name, by Francois Duquesnoy), ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- son of the noted Puritan divine Increase Mather (1639 – 1723) and the grandson of John Cotton and Richard Mather, both "Moses-like figures" ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- by Jameson's imprisonment in late 1639. There is no record of any independent work by Wright from this period (his earliest known painting ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- from the persecution of the Tokugawa government. In 1639, 106 Ezo Christians were rounded up and executed. In June 1669, the Ainu again rose in rebellion ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- In 1639 Spain sent a second armada, reminiscent of the great fleet that sailed against England in 1588, bound for Flanders, carrying 20,000 troops ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- the town of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island. In 1639, Coddington left Portsmouth and founded Newport, also on Aquidneck Island. That same year ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard. A graduate of Emmanuel College ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- festival in that colony; and Connecticut as early as 1639 and annually after 1647, except in 1675. The Dutch in New Netherland appointed a day for giving ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- transit of Mercury predicted by Johannes Kepler. In 1639 Giovanni Zupi used a telescope to discover that the planet had orbital* phases similar to Venus ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- governor of the French colony on St. Kitts, in 1639, he was a prominent Knight of St. John and dressed his retinue with the emblems of the order. The ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- factory was built in 1612), Madras (Chennai) in 1639, Bombay in 1668, and Calcutta in 1690. By 1647 the company had 23 factories and 90 employees in ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- *1639: Edicts establishing national seclusion (sakoku rei) are completed. All Westerners except the Dutch are prohibited from entering Japan ...38 KB (5,709 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- oldest public elementary school, established in 1639). The city also has private, parochial, and charter schools. Three thousand students of racial ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- defeat at the Battle of the Downs in 1639, when an increasingly exhausted ... so far. At the Battle of the Downs in 1639 a Spanish fleet carrying troops ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- On August 22, 1639, Francis Day of the British East India Company bought a small strip of land on the Coromandel Coast from the Vijayanagara ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
