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Peter Minuit was born in Wesel, Germany between 1580 and 1585 [6] [7] into a Calvinist family [8] that had moved from the city of Tournai (presently part of Wallonia, Belgium) in the Southern Netherlands controlled by Spain, in order to avoid Spanish Catholic authorities, who were not favorably disposed toward Protestants. [9]
Peter Minuit had been director-general of New Netherland. Still, he left two weeks before Kieft's arrival to establish New Sweden in the poorly developed southern reaches of the colony along the Delaware Valley. New Netherland had begun to flourish along the Hudson River. The Dutch West India Company ran the settlement chiefly for trading, with ...
January 9 – Peter Minuit sails from Texel Island for America's New Netherland colony, with two ships of Dutch emigrants. February 2 – King Charles I of England is crowned, but without his wife, Henrietta Maria , who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.
Died at sea near Swansea, Wales on September 27, 1647 while returning to Amsterdam aboard the Princess Amelia. [5] Peter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 –1672) 1647 [citation needed] 1664: Authorized charter for Communipaw and Bergen (now Jersey City) in 1660. New Amsterdam, Pavonia, and Staten Island attacked by the Munsee during the brief Peach War ...
The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office is seeking any family, relatives or friends of Peter Young. Young was a 59-year-old single white man who died on Saturday, May 18. His last known address was ...
Peter Stuyvesant succeeded Kieft in office. [ 1 ] Kieft died on September 27, 1647, in the Princess Amelia shipwreck near Swansea , Wales, en route to Amsterdam to defend himself, along with many of his opponents, including the Rev. Everardus Bogardus . [ 3 ]
President Trump brought a conspiracy theory into the national spotlight, but authorities came to a different conclusion when investigating her death.
Tobin, 76, died on October 8 2022 in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a month after a fall in his jail cell in HMP Edinburgh where he was serving three life sentences for the murders of young women who ...