During the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai became one of the most important sea ports in the Yangtze Delta region as a result of two important central government policy changes: First, Emperor Kangxi ( 1662 – 1723 ) in 1684 reversed the previous Ming Dynasty prohibition on ocean going vessels – a ban that had been in force since 1525.

Although the Dutch and Swedes returned to resettle the Delaware River region as early as 1638, much of the Delaware Bay area south of what is today the city of Newcastle remained unsettled until 1662, when a grant of land at the Hoernkills ( the area around Cape Henlopen, near the current town of Lewes ) was made by the city of Amsterdam to a party of Mennonites.

Section 9 of the Roskilde peace treaty had initially ensured autonomy in Scania and in an additional agreement, signed at the Malmö Recess in 1662, Sweden guaranteed that the old laws and privileges of Scania would continue to apply in the region.

For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.

On account of the feeling engendered by the civil war Ambrose left his great church of Preston in 1654, and became minister of Garstang, whence, however, in 1662 he was ejected with the two thousand ministers who refused to conform.

* 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.

There are few sources on Ole Rømer until his immatriculation in 1662 at the University of Copenhagen, at which his mentor was Rasmus Bartholin who published his discovery of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar ( calcite ) in 1668, while Rømer was living in his home.

The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England on 9 May 1662, which is traditionally reckoned as Punch's UK birthday.

At this point, the term Dissenter came to include " Puritan ", but more accurately describes those ( clergy or lay ) who " dissented " from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

New Haven was absorbed by Connecticut Colony with the issuance of the Connecticut Charter in 1662, partly as royal punishment by King Charles II for harboring the regicide judges who sentenced King Charles I to death.

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

Although the Ming capital Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng ( who established the Shun Dynasty, soon replaced by the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty ), regimes loyal to the Ming throne — collectively called the Southern Ming — survived until 1662.

The picture frame with the 2 children are the other 2 daughters of Louis and Maria Theresa who died in 1662 and 1664.

Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February 1662 ; he describes it in his Diary as " a good play, and well performed " – he was especially impressed by the singing and dancing of the young actress who played Viola, Beatrice's sister ( Davenant's creation ).

The law was named after chemist and physicist Robert Boyle, who published the original law in 1662.

In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent.

Koxinga ( Lord of the Imperial Surname ) is the customary Western spelling of the popular appellation of Zheng Chenggong, a Chinese military leader who was born in 1624 in Hirado, Japan to Chinese merchant / pirate Zheng Zhilong and his Japanese wife, and died in 1662 on the Island of Formosa ( Taiwan ).

It is known that in later life he attended the 1662 Bury St. Edmunds witch trial, where his citation of a parallel case in Denmark played some part in confirming in the jury's minds the guilt of the accused, two women who were subsequently executed for the crime of witchcraft.

In the Church of England, the technical term " curate " as found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer meant the incumbent of a benefice, that is the person licensed by the diocesan bishop to the " cure of souls " who was either a rector, a vicar, or a perpetual curate depending on how the benefice income was raised.

Another important advance came in 1662 from a London draper named John Graunt, who showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death in a defined group, or cohort, of people, despite the uncertainty about the future longevity or mortality of any one individual person.

Zaya Pandita or Namkhaijamts ( 1599 – 1662 ) was a Buddhist missionary priest and scholar of Oirat origin who is the most prominent Oirat Buddhist scholar.

Allying himself with Lady Castlemaine, he encouraged Charles's increasing dislike of Clarendon ; and he was made secretary of state in October 1662 in spite of the opposition of Clarendon, who had to find him a seat in parliament.

The first of these, " Alexander and the Family of Darius ," so delighted Louis XIV that he at once ennobled Le Brun ( December, 1662 ), who was also created Premier Peintre du Roi ( First Painter to His Majesty ) with a pension of 12, 000 livres, the same amount as he had yearly received in the service of the magnificent Fouquet.

Isobel Gowdie was a Scottish woman who was tried for witchcraft in 1662.

His father was a son of John Doddridge ( 1621 – 1689 ), rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, who resigned his living after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and became a nonconformist minister, and a great-nephew of the judge and MP Sir John Doddridge ( 1555 – 1628 ).

He was descended from Spanish Jew Fernando Mendes, who accompanied Catherine of Braganza to England in 1662.

* The Syriac Orthodox and the Syriac Catholic both recognize that Andrew Akijan was legally elected Patriarch in 1662 who re-entered communion with Rome but later Patriarchs severed that Communion.

Although the Pensées appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of which are incomplete, it is believed that Pascal had, prior to his death in 1662, already planned out the order of the book and had begun the task of cutting and pasting his draft notes into a coherent form.

In 1662 he finally succeeded in recovering Gawsworth from his Fitton cousins ; when Alexander Fitton claimed that Gerard had won the case by suborning witnesses, he was prosecuted for libelling a peer and imprisoned, although many people believed his accusations.

On 25 February 1660 Barbara, gave birth to a daughter named Lady Anne Palmer, whom Palmer believed was his own daughter and the diary of Samuel Pepys on 23 August 1662 said: " But that which pleased me best was that my Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall-where I glutted myself with looking on her.

In early June 1662 Barbara had given birth to a son named Charles who it is believed was fathered by the King.

It was begun in 1722 by William " Speaker " Conolly ( 1662 – 1729 ), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, who came under the influence of the New Junta for Architecture, whose adherents included Alessandro Galilei believed to have designed the main house and Edward Lovett Pearce believed to have designed the entrancehall and the long gallery in its original form, as well as the colonnades and wings.

It is believed to have caught the eye of Samuel Pepys in 1662 and was extensively renovated during the 13th Century.

His son, John Tradescant the younger ( 1608 – 1662 ) traveled to Virginia in 1637 and collected flowers, plants, shells, an Indian deerskin mantle believed to have belonged to Powhatan, father of Pocahontas.

Originally known as New Spring Gardens, the site was believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660 with the first mention being made by Samuel Pepys in 1662.

Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automaton | automata — De homine, 1662.

In 1662, the English scientist Christopher Merret presented a paper detailing how the presence of sugar in a wine led to it eventually sparkling and that by adding sugar to a wine before bottling it, nearly any wine could be made to sparkle.

The booklet A Tryal of Witches taken from a contemporary report of the proceedings of the Bury St. Edmunds witch trial of 1662 became a model for, and was referenced in the Trials when the magistrates were looking for proof that such evidence could be used in a court of law.

The dog in The Hunter's Present is a very large, stocky dog that could possibly pull a cart ; showing the range of the early type, a much smaller, lighter dog of the same type is shown in another painting by the same artist, The Poultry seller, 1662.

The inventories of Gigault's possessions, taken in 1662 and in 1700 ( on the account of his marriage and his wife's death, respectively ), reveal that already by 1662 he was no longer poor and could afford a well-furnished home with a collection of paintings and sculptures, and a large number of musical instruments: a chamber organ, two harpsichords ( one with two manuals, the other with one ), three spinets, two clavichords, a bass viol, two treble viols, a theorbo and a guitar.

This was taken to the lengths where it could be mocked in the Port-Royal Logic ( 1662 ).

The 1662 Act stipulated that if a poor person ( that is, resident of a tenancy with a taxable value less than £ 10 per year, who did not fall under the other protected categories ) remained in the parish for forty days of undisturbed residency, he could acquire " settlement rights " in that parish.

In 1662 he claimed he could cure the king's evil ( scrofula ) by ' stroking ' or touching, but failed in a demonstration before Charles II.