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1652

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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. South Africa.

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1651

The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians, won by Poles.

Ukraine

quick question, why do you put a sun between the year and the event for every post you made here?

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1648

The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed by the House of Orange-Nassau and the Estates General) which was before a province of the Spanish Empire. The Netherlands becomes the first European power with a republican form of government.

Germany

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1647

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March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

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1646

Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War

Scotland, Ireland, England

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1645

January 10 - Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud executed for treason on Tower Hill, London. His support for Charles, absolute monarchy, and his persecuting of opposing views led to his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.

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1644

February to August - Explorer Abel Tasman's second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia.

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1643

January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga
February 6 - Abel Tasman discovers the Fiji islands.

Bonus

January 4 - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist is born

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1642

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March 13 - First Battle of Middlewich in the English Civil War. During this battle the Parliamentarians rout the Royalist supporters of King Charles I of England at Middlewich in Cheshire, England.

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1641

Charles I of England flees London for the north