Gerrit Claesz Plug

Historical Context:

-1679: Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Robert LaSalle) sails up the St Clair River, past the future city of Sarnia, and into Lake Huron
-1688: Willem of Orange set sail for England with 500 ships and 30,000 men in the Glorious Revolution to overthrow James II (England).
-1688: Willem becomes William III (England)
-1688: Louis XIV (France) declares war on Netherlands
-1700: Population estimates::

..World - 600 million

..Europe - 86 million

..Netherlands - 1.8 million

..Canada* - less than 50,000

...including approximately 20,000 aboriginal peoples from the Huron, Iroquois, Algonquin, Ottawa and other tribes and approximately 20,000 non aboriginal population of New France

- 1700: English Life Expectancy approx 36 years

-1702: Willem of Orange (William III) dies
-1713: Treaty (and Peace) of Utrecht is signed among Spain, France, England, Portugal, Savoy and United Provinces of Netherlands

..Maritime provinces (of Canada), including Acadia (now Nova Scotia) from France to England. Acadian removal to Louisiana.

-1713: Junipero Serra (Spanish missionary and “father of California”) is born in Mallorca
-1717: Handel’s “Water Music” is played (for the first time) for George I
-1741: Anders Celsius introduces the Centigrade temperature scale
-1742: Premiere performance of Handel’s Messiah in Dublin Ireland