Software
Free
Download
Audio
Graphics
Utilities
Internet
Screen Savers
Games
Development Tools
Business
Audio
Home/Hobby
Education
|
Events
April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town.
May 18 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
May 29 - First Anglo-Dutch War opening battle fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.
Ongoing events
Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)
Births
April 7 - Pope Clement XII
April 21 - Michel Rolle, mathematician (d. 1719)
Deaths
June 21 - Inigo Jones, architect (b. 1573)
Category:1652
|