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 ...
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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1660s - Events and Trends.
Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669.
The Great Plague 1665 in England. It is considered an outbreak of bubonic plague.
The Great Fire of London 1666. Most of the City of London is destroyed. However, many of the rats considered responsible for the Great Plague are burned and the epidem ...
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. ...
