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April 6 is the 96th day of the year ... 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, ... 1947 – André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, ...
On 6 April 1652, Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutchman employed by the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (V.O.C.), arrived at the Cape to take control of the burgeoning settlement that eventually became Cape Town. In the year 1658, Jan van Riebeeck imprisoned Autshumato on Robben Island. Despite his escape with another prisoner, the Dutch settlers ...
1652 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1652nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 652nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1652, the ...
13 April – Georges Fournier, Jesuit priest, geographer and mathematician (born 1595) May – Claude de L'Estoile, playwright and poet (born 1602) 10 May – Jacques Buteux, Jesuit missionary in Canada, shot (born 1600) 10 August – Jean Gaston, Duke of Valois, prince (born 1650) 18 August – Florimond de Beaune, mathematician (born 1601) [2]
To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. [28] The VOC had settled at the Cape in order to supply their trading ships. The Cape and the VOC had to import Dutch farmers to establish farms to supply the passing ships as well as to supply the growing VOC settlement.
The first, which applied to England, Wales, Ireland and the British colonies, changed the start of the year from 25 March to 1 January, with effect from "the day after 31 December 1751". [6] [d] (Scotland had already made this aspect of the changes, on 1 January 1600.) [7] [8] The second (in effect [e]) adopted the Gregorian calendar in place ...
Based on Heese's genealogical research of the period from 1657 to 1867, his study Die Herkoms van die Afrikaners ("The Origins of the Afrikaners") estimated an average ethnic admixture for Afrikaners of 35.5% Dutch, 34.4% German, 13.9% French, 7.2% non-European, 2.6% English, 2.8% other European and 3.6% unknown.
French nobleman Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, Maine in June 1604 under the authority of the King of France. Nearly half the settlers perished due to the harsh winter and scurvy , and the survivors moved north out of New England to Port-Royal of Nova Scotia (see symbol "R" on map to the right) in the ...