May – Chinese
encyclopedistSong Yingxing publishes his Tiangong Kaiwu ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature"), considered one of the most valuable encyclopedias of classical China.
June 27 – The first English venture to China is attempted by Captain
John Weddell, who sails into port in
Macau and
Canton during the late
Ming Dynasty, with six ships. The voyages are for trade, which is dominated here by the
Portuguese (at this time combined with the
power of Spain). He brings 38,421 pairs of
eyeglasses, perhaps the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.[7]
August 29 – Fighting in what is now the West African nation of
Ghana, troops of the Dutch West India Company capture the Portuguese territory of the Gold Coast after the five-day
Battle of Elmina.
September 29 – The last five of the "
16 Martyrs of Japan" are executed for illegally attempting to spread Christianity in Japan.
Lorenzo Ruiz,
Guillaume Courtet, Michael de Aozaraza, Vincent Shiwozuka and Lazarus of Kyoto are all put to death by the slow hanging torture of ana-tsurushi. They will be canonized 350 years later as saints of the Roman Catholic Church, on October 18, 1987.
France places a few missionaries in the
Ivory Coast, a country it will rule more than 200 years later.
Scottish army officer
Robert Monro publishes Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys in London, the first military history in English.[9]
^Leyster, Judith (1993). Judith Leyster : a Dutch master and her world. Zwolle Worcester, Massachusetts: Waanders Publishers Worcester Art Museum. p. 214.
ISBN9789066302709.
^LastName, FirstName (2006). Britannica concise encyclopedia. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 666.
ISBN9781593394929.
^Mark Ringer, Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi (Amadeus Press, 2006) p. 130
^Hatton, Ragnhild (1997). Royal and republican sovereignty in early modern Europe : essays in memory of Ragnhild Hatton. Cambridge England New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 294.
ISBN9780521419109.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
May – Chinese
encyclopedistSong Yingxing publishes his Tiangong Kaiwu ("Exploitation of the Works of Nature"), considered one of the most valuable encyclopedias of classical China.
June 27 – The first English venture to China is attempted by Captain
John Weddell, who sails into port in
Macau and
Canton during the late
Ming Dynasty, with six ships. The voyages are for trade, which is dominated here by the
Portuguese (at this time combined with the
power of Spain). He brings 38,421 pairs of
eyeglasses, perhaps the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.[7]
August 29 – Fighting in what is now the West African nation of
Ghana, troops of the Dutch West India Company capture the Portuguese territory of the Gold Coast after the five-day
Battle of Elmina.
September 29 – The last five of the "
16 Martyrs of Japan" are executed for illegally attempting to spread Christianity in Japan.
Lorenzo Ruiz,
Guillaume Courtet, Michael de Aozaraza, Vincent Shiwozuka and Lazarus of Kyoto are all put to death by the slow hanging torture of ana-tsurushi. They will be canonized 350 years later as saints of the Roman Catholic Church, on October 18, 1987.
France places a few missionaries in the
Ivory Coast, a country it will rule more than 200 years later.
Scottish army officer
Robert Monro publishes Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys in London, the first military history in English.[9]
^Leyster, Judith (1993). Judith Leyster : a Dutch master and her world. Zwolle Worcester, Massachusetts: Waanders Publishers Worcester Art Museum. p. 214.
ISBN9789066302709.
^LastName, FirstName (2006). Britannica concise encyclopedia. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 666.
ISBN9781593394929.
^Mark Ringer, Opera's First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi (Amadeus Press, 2006) p. 130
^Hatton, Ragnhild (1997). Royal and republican sovereignty in early modern Europe : essays in memory of Ragnhild Hatton. Cambridge England New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 294.
ISBN9780521419109.
^Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.