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John Jamisone

Male 1663 - Bef 1666  (2 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1664 
  • 29 May 1664: Oak Apple Day – the birthday of Charles II and the day when he entered London at the Restoration; commanded by Act of Parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving. A special service (expunged in 1859) was inserted in the Book of Common Prayer and people wore sprigs of oak with gilded oak-apples on that day.
  • 27 Aug 1664: Nieuw Amsterdam becomes New York as 300 English soldiers under Col. Mathias Nicolls take the town from the Dutch under orders from Charles II. The town is renamed after the King's brother James, Duke of York
1665 
  • 1665: Great Plague of London (July-October) kills over 60,000
  • 1665: Five-mile Act restricts non-conformist ministers in Britain
  • 7 Nov 1665: The "London Gazette" first published – one of the official journals of record of the United Kingdom government, and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom