Person report

★24 Jun 1622
Dutch–Portuguese War: An outnumbered Portuguese force repelled a Dutch attack in the Battle of Macau, the only major military engagement that was fought between two European powers on the Chinese mainland.

★28 Feb 1638
The National Covenant was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the Church of Scotland by King Charles I.

★13 Mar 1639
Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, clergyman John Harvard.

★04 Dec 1639
English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first successful prediction and observation of a transit of Venus.

★28 May 1644
English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the town of Bolton.

★14 Dec 1650
English domestic servant Anne Greene survived being hanged for infanticide.

★03 Sep 1651
English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the Third English Civil War.

★30 Jan 1661
Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.

★07 Nov 1665
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.

★11 Mar 1669
The 1669 Etna eruption commenced in the early morning hours, eventually producing the largest lava flow in the history of Mount Etna and seriously damaging Catania and other towns on Etna's slopes.

Historical data by Wikipedia Contributors CC BY-SA 3.0.

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