Rijksdaalder silver coins from the Batavia wreck

In the year 1629, Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter, and the county is the first to be created in British America (Mar 4), the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia is wrecked on a reef near Beacon Island, and following mutiny among the survivors, two exiled murderers become the first Europeans to settle in Australia (Jun 4), actresses are banned in Japan - and all these fine people were born:

1629-01xx Gabriël Metsu* painter - Leiden, Dutch Republic (1667/38)

1629-0102 Christian Scriver* Lutheran minister/writer - Rendsburg, Duchy of Schleswig, Holy Roman Empire (1693/64)

1629-0205 Henry Muddiman* journalist/publisher - London, England (1692/63)
1629-0216 Gert Miltzow* clergyman/ theologian/historical writer - Voss, Norway (1688/59)

1629-0301 Abraham Teniers (B) Flemish painter/engraver - Antwerp (1670/41)

1629-0414 Christiaan Huygens* mathematician/astronomer/inventor - The Hague, Dutch Republic (1695/66)

1629-0508 Niels Juel* Danish-Norwegian admiral - Christiania, Norway (1697/68)

1629-0605 George Mason I* British-American politician/progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family - Pershore, England (1686/c.56)

1629-0702 Elizabeth Claypole* (b Cromwell) daughter of Oliver Cromwell - England (1658/29)

1629-0818 Agneta Horn* “military brat”/writer/granddaughter of Axel Oxenstierna - Riga, Swedish Livonia (1672/42)

1629-0904 Lorenzo Pasinelli* painter - Bologna, Papa States (1700/70)

1629-1028 Maria van Riebeeck* wife of the first commander at the Cape of Good Hope/ money lender to the colonists there - Rotterdam, Dutch Republic (1664/35)

1629-1111 Lodewijck van Ludick* painter - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1724/c.95)

1629-1216 Ahasverus Fritsch* German jurist/poet/hymn writer - Mücheln, Saxony-Anhalt (1701/71)
1629-1220 Pieter de Hooch (B) painter - Rotterdam, Dutch Republic (1684/54)

Updated 9.9.2021
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