It was not until Erik Smit's private 1652 expedition aboard the Fortuna proved successful that interest in the West Indies ' trade grew into consideration of a new Danish colony.

While Smit's back was turned, O ' Gara took a quick tap and ran in for five points.

Smit's shares were delisted from the Amsterdam Stock Exchange on 4 May 2010.

Due to Smit being unavailable for the November 2010 Tests after surgery, lock Victor Matfield took Smit's place as captain for that tour.

Smit's book about the creation of the Eden Project, ' Eden ', was first published in 2001 and updated on the 10th anniversary of the opening in March 2011.

In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, Douglas writes that he quibbled with a few of Smit's interpretations but agreed with the general thrust of Smit's investigation and conclusions.

Douglas particularly praised Smit's discovery in autopsy photos of what appeared to be previously-overlooked evidence of a " stun gun " having been used to subdue JonBenét.

In his A History of Rhodesia, Robert Blake writes that Smit's party, " in accordance with the Rhodesian tradition of adopting the most misleading political nomenclature possible, called themselves ' Liberals.

Despite the offer being promptly rejected by Smit's board, Boskalis subsequently built a stake of over 25 % in the firm and expressed a continuing desire to buy a number of its business units.

Smit's record-breaking sequence of appearances came to an end with South Africa's first match of the 2007 Tri Nations, against Australia, when he suffered an injury that prevented him taking any further part in the tournament.

In 1653 a peace invitation was extended by the Onondaga Nation to New France and an expedition of Jesuits, led by Simon Le Moyne, established Sainte Marie de Ganentaa in 1656.

Even so, Khara Khula's son Baatur Khung Taiji ( d. 1653 ) joined the 1636-42 expedition to Tibet led by Gushi Khan Torobaikhu.

In 1653 Emperor Shah Jahan sent a large expedition under his eldest son, Dara-Shikoh, to regain Kandahar but in vain.

In 1653, Bennebroek split off from Heemstede, becoming a separate fiefdom.

In July 1653 at an unknown location, perhaps still in County Galway, he added further material, along with a separate index to the book's list of Saint's pedigrees.

The most important of his doctrinal decisions was his condemnation of five disputed Jansenist propositions, in his Papal Bull, Cum occasione issued, 31 May 1653.

The papal bull Cum occasione, issued by Pope Innocent X in 1653, condemned five cardinal doctrines of Jansenism as heresy — especially the relationship between human free will and efficacious grace, wherein the teachings of Augustine contradicted the teachings of the Jesuit School.

Historian Richard Kurin builds a highly speculative case for 1653 as the year of acquisition, but the most that can be said with certainty is that Tavernier obtained the blue diamond during one of his five voyages to India between the years 1640 and 1667.

Baillie was twice married, firstly to Lilias Fleming, of the family of Cardarroch, by whom he had a large number of children, but only five survived him ; she died in June 1653.

He was forced to return to Europe, arriving in France in March 1653 with a fleet of five ships.

In 1653 he went to Italy, where he stayed for five years.

In 1653 Henry married Elizabeth ( died 1687 ), daughter of Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, who went on to bear him five sons and two daughters.

Beginning in 1653, a " New Navy " was constructed, a core of sixty new, heavier ships with professional captains.

During the first days of February 1653, Tromp escorted a convoy of merchant ships through the Channel and put them safely into the Atlantic Ocean.

After their victory at the Battle of the Gabbard in June 1653, the English fleet of 120 ships under General at Sea George Monck blockaded the Dutch coast, capturing many merchant vessels.

In fact, Naval wages had been set in 1653 and were not increased until April 1797 after sailors on 80 ships of the Channel Fleet based at Spithead mutinied.

In September 1653, a Cromwellian task force of six ships anchored off the castle, but the Macleans had already fled to Tiree.

This first classification took place in 1626, and was substantially altered in late 1653 as the complements of individual ships were raised.

Gardner was imprisoned in 1653 for refusing to close his brewery which was used to provision ships.

At least seven ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy have been named HNLMS Tromp after Admiral Maarten Tromp ( 1598 – 1653 ), or his son Cornelis Tromp ( 1629 – 1691 ):

In 1653 Carvajal was reported as owning a number of ships trading to the East and West Indies, to Brazil, and to the Levant.

Byron gave chase and attempted to form line of battle as per the Sailing and Fighting Instructions set down by Admiral Blake in 1653. d ' Estaing, realising that his force although superior in guns was not so in numbers, had ordered his captains not to engage directly but to bear away when British ships approached and to bear down on any individual ship that might through wind or poor seamanship become separated from the line.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

Frankfurt regularly served as the site of the election from the fifteenth century on, but elections were also held at Cologne ( 1531 ), Regensburg ( 1575 and 1636 ), and Augsburg ( 1653 and 1690 ).

The French Jansenists professed that the propositions condemned in 1653 were not in fact to be found in Augustinus, written by Cornelius Jansen.

A common misconception is that they were so named because they were sold for the price of a guinea coin ; this hypothesis is untenable, because the guinea was first struck in England in 1663, and William Harvey used the term " Ginny-pig " as early as 1653.

This division of forces left Blake with only 42 men of war by November, while the Dutch were making every effort to reinforce their fleet, and this led to an English defeat by Tromp in the Battle of Dungeness in December but didn't save the English Mediterranean fleet, largely destroyed at the Battle of Leghorn in March 1653.

By February 1653 the English were ready to challenge the Dutch, and in the three-day Battle of Portland in March they drove them out of The Channel.

The Dutch were also victorious in March 1653 at the Battle of Leghorn near Italy and had gained effective control of both the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

They were also schooled in art through their parents art collection, but also their connection to the magnificent collection of paintings in the Antwerp house of diamond and jewellery dealer, Gaspar Duarte ( 1584 – 1653 ), who was a Portuguese Jewish exile.

The size of the county was drastically reduced in 1651 and 1653 as Lancaster and Westmoreland counties, respectively, were carved out of it.

* 1653: Petitions were lodged to try to stop the Duke of Northumberland's River from being reopened.

In 1653 France was so exhausted that neither invaders nor defenders were able to gather supplies to enable them to take the field till July.

His titles were inherited by his only son, Christopher, Earl of Torrington ( 1653 – 1688 ), on whose death they became extinct.

During the Irish Confederate Wars ( 1641 – 1653 ), Galway took the side of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland, and as a result the Tribes were punished following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

On 2 June 1653 the Dutch attacked but were beaten back because the English employed line-of-battle tactics, making the Dutch pay a high price for attempting to board.

* 1653 ( Jōō 2, 12th day of the 8th month ): A violent fire destroyed a large part of the imperial palace and many temples which were nearby.

The earliest English poetical treatise on Angling by John Dennys, said to have been a fishing companion of Shakespeare, was published in 1613, The Secrets of Angling, of which 6 verses were quoted in the better known book Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler ( 1653 ), of which the latter two chapters were actually written by his friend Charles Cotton, and described the fishing in the Derbyshire Wye.

Such chambers were introduced in Brandenburg in 1652, in Cleves and Mark in 1653, in Pomerania in 1654, in Prussia in 1661 and in Magdeburg in 1680.

The countries that now make up the United Kingdom, together with the present Republic of Ireland, were briefly ruled as a republic in the 17th century, first under the Commonwealth consisting of the Rump Parliament and the Council of State, ( 1649 – 53 ) and then under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ).

In 1653, Transylvanian Hungarian ruler George II Rákóczi signed an alliance with Poland, and the relations between the Commonwealth and Transilvania were friendly ; Poles had even offered their crown to him, under condition that he converts to Catholicism.

His lands, including Buckland, were confiscated by the Parliamentarians but were recovered in 1653 by the Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon and held until death in 1709.

His compositions, predominantly motets, collected under the titled Cultus harmonicus, were published by him in Vienna, Opus I in 1649, Opus Minus ( II ) in 1650 and Opus Maius ( III ) in 1653.