Schickard’s Calculating Clock

In the year 1623, forces from the Kingdom of Kongo defeat the Portuguese in the Battle of Mbanda Kasi (Jan), the ship Anne arrives from England carrying more settlers to New Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Jul), Rudbeckianska gymnasiet, the first gymnasium in Sweden, is founded, Wilhelm Schickard invents his Calculating Clock, an early mechanical calculator - and all these fine people were born:

1623-xxxx Jürgen Ovens* German portrait painter/art dealer - Tönning, Duchy of Schleswig (1678/55)

1623-0304 Jacob van der Does* Dutch landscape painter - Amsterdam (1673/50)

1623-0529 David Schirmer* German lyric poet/librarian - Pappendorf (1686/c.63)
1623-0530 Wallerant Vaillant* Dutch painter - Lille, France (1677/54)

1623-0615 Cornelis de Witt* politician/burgomaster of Dordrecht - Dordrecht, Holland, Dutch Republic (1672/49)
1623-0619 Blaise Pascal* mathematician/ inventor/philosopher - Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France (1662/39)

1623-0712 Elizabeth Walker* pharmacist/philanthropist - Bucklersbury, London, England (1690/66)
1623-0716 Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Vasa* count/diplomat  - Sweden (1702/78)

1623-1004 Robert Thoroton* antiquarian - Nottinghamshire, England (1678/55)

Updated 30.8.2021-1
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