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René Lepage de Sainte-Claire
1656Apr, 10

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian settler, founded Rimouski (d. 1718)
Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire (April 10, 1656 in Ouanne, Burgundy – August 4, 1718 in Rimouski, Quebec) is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, province of Quebec, in Canada.

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    Lettres provinciales

    Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
  • 30Jul

    Battle of Warsaw (1656)

    Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
  • 14Oct

    Puritanism

    Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.