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1601
!st British East India company voyage departs from London, lead by John Lancaster. -
1610
1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island. -
1622
First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed. -
1633
Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in southern Fujian sea. -
1645
Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire: "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I. -
1655
Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam. -
1667
1st fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year old boy, who survives the procedure. -
1678
Roman Catholics banned from English parliament. -
1680
The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
1692
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachussets.