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James FOWLDS

Male 1600 - 1675  (75 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1605 
  • 1605: Pedro de Quiros coins the name Austrialia and reported on 'Terra Australis'.
1606 
  • 1606: First documented landing by Europeans in Australia - Dutch, William Janszoon. (Duyfken)
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.
1616 
  • 1616: Dirk Hartog makes the first confirmed landing on West Australian soil. (Eendracht)
1642 
  • 1642: Abel Tasman discovers VanDiemen's Land (Tasmania)
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.
1666 
  • 2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London.