Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch painter (d. 1663)
Sir Balthazar Gerbier (23 February 1592, in N.S. – 1663), was an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting, contriving of scenes, masques, shows and entertainments for great Princes... as likewise for making of engines useful in war."

1592Feb, 23
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Battle of Hansan Island
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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John Davis (English explorer)
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.