Important Events
- May 6 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape
- Nov 18 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the world's largest Christian basilica
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Famous People Born in 1626
- Jan 16 Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish landscape painter (Wooded Landscape), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1699)
- Jan 25 John van de Cappelle, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1679)
- Feb 5 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
- Mar 12 John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
- Apr 5 Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp (d. 1679)
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World Leaders in 1626
Charles I
King of England
Charles I
Francis Bacon