Governors Island, south of Manhattan

In the year 1624, as Oslo in Norway is destroyed once again by fire, King Christian IV of Denmark–Norway decrees its rebuilding on a new site, and to be named Christiania (May 24), the first Dutch settlers arrive in New Netherland as they disembark at Governors Island (Jun), Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet (Jul-Aug), the Japanese shōgun expels the Spanish from the land, and severs trade with the Philippines - and all these fine people were born:

1624-xxxx Govert Dircksz Camphuysen* painter - Dokkum, Dutch Republic (1672/c.48)

1624-0115 Rombout Verhulst* Flemish sculptor - Mechelen (1698/74)

1624-0409 Henrik Rysensteen* officer/fortification engineer - Ruinen, Drenthe, Dutch Republic (1679/54)

1624-0822 Jean Regnault de Segrais* poet/novelist - Caen, France (1701/76)

1624-0910 Thomas Sydenham* physician/ medical textbook author/known as ‘The English Hippocrates’ - Wynford Eagle, Dorset, England (1689/65)

1624-1020 Jan Albertsz Rotius (B) painter - Medemblik, Dutch Republic (1666/42)

1624-1116 Barent Fabritius (B) portrait and animal painter - Middenbeemster, Dutch Republic (1673/48)

1624-1217 Juriaen Jacobsze* Dutch painter - Hamburg (1685/60)
1624-1218 John Hull* leading merchant and mintmaster of the Massachusetts Bay  Colony - Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England (1683/58)

Updated 23.11.2022
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