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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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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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Alasdair MacColla (circa 1620 to 1647) was a Scottish-Irish soldier. His full name in Scottish Gaelic was Alasdair MacColla Ciotach MacDomhnaill (in English: Alasdair the son of Colla the Left-handed, of the clan MacDonald). He is also referred to in English as "Collkitto". He fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, most notably in the Scottish Civil War. He died in the battle of Knocknanauss in 1647. MacColla was born in the Western Isles of Scotland in the early seventeenth century into the Clan Donald branch of the ...

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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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