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Louis de Buade de Frontenac is born

Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor, known for french soldier and governor, was born on 1622-05-22.

Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor, known for french soldier and governor, was born on 1622-05-22. Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of Forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.

Historical Significance

Louis de Buade de Frontenac is French soldier and governor.

Key People

Louis de Buade de Frontenac

soldier and governor

French soldier and governor

Events Before

  1. Dutch West India Company receives charter for the West Indies (the Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)

    The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the early 17th to late 20th centuries, including...

  2. King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia

    King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia

  3. John Wheelwright, English-American Puritan clergyman, marries Mary Storre in Lincolnshire

    John Wheelwright, English-American Puritan clergyman, marries Mary Storre in Lincolnshire

  4. Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sails from Jakarta for the Moluccas

    The Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, also referred to as the Banda genocide, was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands.

  5. Ceremony held to name the Dutch base of Batavia in the East Indies (modern Jakarta)

    Batavia was an imperial Dutch port city that eventually, after two centuries of Dutch occupation, became the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia.

Events After

  1. Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts

    Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts

  2. Amboyna Massacre: ten Englishmen and ten Japanese and a Portuguese are beheaded by the Dutch for supposedly planning to

    Amboyna Massacre: ten Englishmen and ten Japanese and a Portuguese are beheaded by the Dutch for supposedly planning to seize their fort on Ambon Island (modern Indonesia)

  3. Virginia enacts the first American temperance law

    Virginia enacts the first American temperance law

  4. 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru

    11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru

  5. 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses

    1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses

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Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor, known for french soldier and governor, was born on 1622-05-22. Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of Forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.
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Louis de Buade de Frontenac is French soldier and governor.
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