In the year 1663, Emperor Reigen ascends to the throne of Japan (Mar 5), King Charles II of England issues the Charter of Carolina, establishing the Province of Carolina (Mar 24), the English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act, requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports (Jul 27), severe frost hits England (Aug 28), the English polymath Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of “tiny little rooms”, which he first calls “cells” - and all these fine people were born:
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1663-0112 Tuomas Sipinpoika Seppä** (b Aro) father of Maria Tuomaantytär Västilä - Aro farm, Kirkonkylä, Kauhajoki, Sweden-Finland (1746/83)
1663-0120 Luca Carlevarijs* painter/engraver - Udine, Republic of Venice (1730/67)
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1663-0212 Cotton Mather* minister/prolific author/pamphleteer - Boston, Massachusetts Colony, British America (1728/65)
1663-0303 Nicolas Siret* organist/ harpsichordist/composer - Troyes, France (1754/91)
1663-0401 Ernest Gestrinius* priest/poet/active in Sweden - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1739/75)
1663-0410 Francisco de Berganza* Benedictine monk/medievalist - Santibáñez-Zarzaguda, Spain (1738/75)
1663-0414 August David zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein* Prussian politician - Holy Roman Empire (1735/72)
1663-0501 Giacomo Parolini* Italian painter/mainly active in Ferrara - (1733/c.80)
1663-0520 William Bradford* prominent printer/to America at age 22 - Barwell, Leicestershire, England (1752/89)
1663-0525 Johann Dientzenhofer* German architect - St. Margarethen, Bavaria (1726/63)
1663-0602 Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer* (b Petit) one of the most famous early 18th century female journalists - Nîmes, France (1719/55)
1663-0701 Franz Xaver Murschhauser* singer/ composer/theorist - Saverne, Alsace, Holy Roman Empire (1738/74)
1663-0818 Catherine Repond* alleged witch/one of the last people to be executed for sorcery in Switzerland - Villarvolard, Switzerland (1731/68)
1663-0824 Kiliaen Van Rensselaer* fifth patroon/member of the New York governor’s council/Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Manor of Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland (1719/c.55)
1663-0916 Johann Josua Mosengel* German pipe organ builder - Stolzenau or or Eisenach, Holy Roman Empire (1731/67)
1663-0920 Pirro Albergati* aristocrat/amateur composer - Bologna, Papal States (1735/71)
1663-0928 Henry FitzRoy* 1st Duke of Grafton/illegitimate son of King Charles II of England - England (1690/27)
1663-1003 Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen* German philologist - (1727/63)
1663-1113 Árni Magnússon* scholar/collector of manuscripts from Iceland - Kvennabrekka, Dalasýsla, Iceland (1730/66)
1663-1114 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow* organist/composer - Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire (1712/48)
1663-1227 Johann Melchior Roos* painter - Heidelberg, Holy Roman Empire (1731/67)
Updated 17.4.2023-2
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