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| 1 | 1605 | - 1605: Pedro de Quiros coins the name Austrialia and reported on 'Terra Australis'.
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| 2 | 1606 | - 1606: First documented landing by Europeans in Australia - Dutch, William Janszoon. (Duyfken)
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| 3 | 1609 | - 1609: Galileo built a telescope with which he discovered the mountains on the moon, that the Milky Way consisted of innumerable stars, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and sunspots.
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| 4 | 1616 | - 1616: Dirk Hartog makes the first confirmed landing on West Australian soil. (Eendracht)
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| 5 | 1642 | - 1642: Abel Tasman discovers VanDiemen's Land (Tasmania)
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| 6 | 1665 | - 1665: The Great Plague of London was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England killing an estimated 100,000 people, about 20% of London's population.
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| 7 | 1666 | - 2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London.
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| 8 | 1688 | - 1688: William Dampier becomes the first Englishman to land on West Australian soil. (Cygnet)
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| 9 | 1696 | - 1696: Willem de Vlamingh lands on Rottnest and explores and names the Swan River.
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| 10 | 1699 | - 1699: Return of Dampier in the Roebuck, exploring from Broome to the Pilbara. During this time the Portuguese in Timor raid the Kimberley for Aboriginal slaves.
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| 11 | 1704 | - 1704: Johann Sebastian Bach began composing music
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Abt 1600 - DECEASED