Founding of the Cape Colony
A ships' supply post grows into the seed of Cape Town
Jan van Riebeeck set up a Dutch East India Company station at Table Bay to supply ships bound for Asia. The settlement at the Cape of Good Hope grew into Cape Town and the starting point of colonisation in South Africa.
Wikipedia (English) · 17th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — 4 years earlier
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — 3 years earlier
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — 2 years later
Asia
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 20 years earlier
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Rembrandt (aged 46)
- Louis XIV (aged 14)
- Isaac Newton (aged 9)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 69)
- Shah Jahan (aged 60)
- Oliver Cromwell (aged 53)
- Aurangzeb (aged 34)
- Alexis the Most Quiet (aged 23)
- Shivaji (aged 22)
- Charles II (aged 22)