In 1622 – 1626, Cardinal Richelieu renovated the Sorbonne ; the present buildings date from this time, with later restorations dating from 1885.

Vague rumors of betrayal circulated in the court, notably her supposed involvement with the conspiracies of the comte de Chalais that Chevreuse organized in 1626, then of the king's treacherous favorite, Cinq-Mars, who had been introduced to him by Richelieu.

In 1626, he participated in a plot against Cardinal Richelieu.

A painting of 1610 shows again the tower of the castle, that Richelieu will raze in 1626.

In 1626, France under Richelieu actually concluded a secret peace with Spain, and disputes arose around Henrietta Maria's household.

This fleet appeared in the portfolios of the secretaries of state in 1626, the same year as Richelieu was named " grand maître de la navigation ".

In 1626, as French ambassador to Spain, he concluded the favourable treaty of Monzón, to which his enemy Richelieu found objections.

In her attempts to regain her lost position, she provoked or encouraged the conspiracies of the court, such as the Buckingham affair ( 1623 – 24 ) that compromised the Queen, which she instigated with the connivance of her English lover, Henry Rich, later created Earl of Holland, and of the highest-ranking aristocrats against Richelieu, such as her complicity in the conspiracy of her lover, the comte de Chalais, that she set up in 1626, with the unlikely intention of replacing Louis XIII with his brother, Gaston d ' Orléans.

In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region.

For instance, the New York Sheriff's Office was founded in 1626, and the Albany County Sheriff's Department in the 1660s.

He was the Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633, and he founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1638.

The abbey of Les Echarpes was founded in 1626.

* Salem founded 1626.

Grand Master Antoine de Paule, who also founded Paola in 1626, acquired a sizeable plot of land near the Attard and set about building a country villa that was nearer to Valletta than Verdala Palace.

As the university was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden ( 1626 – 1689 ) in Turku, as the Royal Academy of Turku (), the senior part of the school formed the core of the new university, while the junior year courses formed a grammar school.

Historical buildings in and around the town include the pentagonal Pillau Citadel, founded by the Swedes in 1626, completed by the Prussians in 1670, renovated in 1870 and currently holding a naval museum ; the ruins of the 13th-century Lochstadt Castle ; a maze of 19th-century naval fortifications ; the Naval Cathedral of St. George ( 1866 ); the 32-metre Expressionist observation tower ( 1932 ); the Gothic Revival building of the Baltic Fleet Museum ( 1903 ); and an elegant lighthouse, dating from 1813-1816.

Juan de Oñate who lived until 1626, founded what would become the Spanish province of Santa Fé de Nuevo Méjico among the pueblos of the Rio Grande on July 11, 1598.

On 4 May 1626, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland founded New Amsterdam, which subsequently became New York City.

* The Presidio San Gregorio de Cerralvo, founded in 1626 in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

French traders and colonists tried again to settle a France Équinoxiale further North, in what is today French Guiana, in 1626, 1635 ( when the capital, Cayenne, was founded ) and 1643.

The original predecessor of Häme Regiment was founded in 1626 by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Hugo de Rosel, the fictitious Norman ancestor of the Russells of Kingston Russell invented by Le Neve, York Herald, in 1626.

The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the States-General in November 1626.

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

Legend has it that under a tulip tree in the park Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland, ' purchased ' Manhattan from the a band of Native Americans in 1626 for the Dutch West India Company ; the purchase price being a shipment of goods worth 60 guilders.

By 1626 there were five big " huts " at Smeerenburg, and by 1633 all the chambers of the Northern Company were represented at the settlement.

Gregory Page ( 1626 – November 1693 ) was a wealthy London merchant, shipwright and director of the British East India Company.

Slavery in the New York City area was introduced by the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland about 1626 with the arrival of Paul D ' Angola, Simon Congo, Lewis Guinea, Jan Guinea, and Ascento Angola and six other men — their names denote their place of origin: Angola, the Congo and Guinea.

He was an incorporator of the Guiana Company in 1626.

He was part of a landmark expedition of the Dutch East India Company in 1626 – 27, which mapped the southern coast of Australia.

In 1626 he entered service with the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) and was seen as one of their rising stars.

Salomon de Caus ( 1576 in Dieppe – 1626 ) was a French engineer and once ( falsely ) credited with the development of the steam engine.

The title of Earl of Marlborough, which was created for Churchill in 1689, had been created one time previously in British history, for James Ley, in 1626.

It is likely that she gave way to hysterical grief, as we know she did in 1627, and it is probably for this reason that the king let his queen join him in Livonia after the Poles had been defeated in January 1626.

Roppongi was not extensively populated until after the Meiji Restoration, although the area was trafficked for centuries and served as the site of the cremation of Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada's wife in 1626.

In 1626, Champlain decided to build a farm to raise livestock, or animals to provide food for the people living in the habitation.

* Francis Bacon of England ( 1561 – 1626 ), philosopher, jurist, scientist, writer, and politician ; specifically Member of Parliament, Attorney General for England and Wales ( 1613 – 1617 ), and Lord Chancellor ( 1617 – 1621 )

According to tradition, Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for goods to the value of 60 Dutch guilders, which in the 19th century was estimated to be the equivalent of $ 1000 USD.

On May 24, 1626, Minuit was credited with purchasing the island from the natives ( most likely the Lenape tribe ) in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders.

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

Known for his compositions of amusing genre scenes ( also called bodegones ), such as Old Woman Frying Eggs, his sacred subjects include Adoración de los Reyes ( 1619, The Adoration of the Magi ), and Jesús y los peregrinos de Emaús ( 1626, Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus ), both of which begin to express his more pointed and careful realism.

From 1646 to 1648 he frequented the Swedish court, supposedly as a prospective husband of his cousin the queen regnant, Christina of Sweden ( 1626 – 89, reigned 1632 – 54 ), but her insurmountable objection to wedlock put an end to these anticipations, and to compensate her cousin for a broken half-promise she declared him her successor in 1649, despite the opposition of the Privy Council headed by Axel Oxenstierna.

In 1626 a Chapel of Saint Anthony was built in Salphen for people from Oostmalle who fled their village to escape the plague.

Even though Matteo Ricci and Bento de Góis had already Cathay # Identifying_China_as_Cathay | proven that Cathay is simply another name for China, the English cartographer John Speed in 1626 continued the tradition of showing " Cathaya, the Chief Kingdome of Great Khan ( title ) | Cam " to the northeast of China.

This was Nicholas Lanier, for whom the title was created in 1626 by Charles I of England as Master of the King's Musick ( the k after Music was dropped only during Edward Elgar's appointment ).

At the time of Charles I's coronation in February 1626, he was made a Knight of the Bath to reward him for his service to Charles in Spain.

He was elected MP for Cambridge University in 1626 and 1628.

In 1624, Strode was elected Member of Parliament for Bere Alston, and was re-elected MP for Bere Alston in 1625, 1626 and 1628.

In 1626 Whateley refused communion to his own brother, who had been presented for religious incompetence.

In 1626 it was thought advisable to transfer him to Salamanca, and Tirso de Molina left Madrid determined to write no more for the stage.

Though one of his plays, La Huerta de San Juan, is dated 1626, there is no proof that it was begun after his departure from Madrid, and he seems to have written nothing for eight years.

For ten years, he pursued this double life, until he finally secured first an interim and then a permanent appointment to the Royal Council of the Indies ( 1626 )— rather like an appeals court for Spanish colonies in the New World.