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1638 - decade 1630s - 17th century
Events
- [Pedro Texeira]? makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito?, Ecuador. The same trip had been made in the opposite direction in 1541?.
- The Netherlands colonizes Mauritius.
- Shipwrecked sailors from England found the first known European settlement in Belize.
- Swedish settlers arrive on the ships Kalmare Nyckel and Fågel Grip to the American colony [New Sweden]? (Delaware).
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