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1645 - Ongoing events. English Civil War (1642-1649) 1645 - Births. August 10 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711) August 16 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) September 21 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700) Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate (d. 1701) See also Category:1645 births. 1645 - Deaths. January 10 - William Laud, Archbi ...

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Finally, under pressure from his men, and perhaps in shock over what he had done, Kidd finally made the fatal decision of turning pirate. He started taking any vessels which were not English; Dutch, Moorish, Indian, Portuguese, French; no one was safe from the onslaught. As the voyage progressed Kidd’s actions became increasingly more like those of a pirate than an agent of the English King. Acts of savagery on Kidd’s part were reported by escaped prisoners, who told of being hoisted u ...

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1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. 1587 - Events. February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. July 22 - Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. August 19 - Polish and Lithuanian noble ...

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1565 - Events. The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States. September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. ...

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Rouen - Transportation. Rouen is served by a light metro system opened in 1994. Rouen - Education. École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen, located at nearby Mont-Saint-Aignan INSA Rouen Rouen - Births. Rouen was the birthplace of: Isaac Oliver (c.1560-1617), French-born English portrait miniature painter Samuel Bochart (1599-1667), scholar Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), tragedian A ...

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Rouen was probably founded by the Romans who called it Rotomagus. Rouen was the chief city of the Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis under Constantine. In the 5th century it became the seat of the bishopric and later a capital of Neustria. In the 9th century, it was overrun by Normans and since 912 has been the capital of Normandy and residence of the dukes. On April 16, 1203 Philippe Auguste entered Rouen and definitively annexed Normandy to the French Kingdom in 1204. During the Hundred Years' War, on January 19, 1419, Rouen surrendered to Henry V of England who made Normandy a part of England. Joan of Arc was burned at th ...

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