Explorer Jacob Roggeveen

Jacob Roggeveen

Living place: Netherlands

Birthday: 1-2-1659

Global rank: #37720

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Who is Explorer Jacob Roggeveen?
Dutch admiral and explorer who discovered Easter Island and its famous rock head.
He spent only one day on Easter Island, but was fascinated to witness the natives worshiping the colossal stone statue.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He was commissioned by the Dutch West Indies Company to find Terra Australis, or Australia. Instead, he stumbled upon Easter Island.

Family life info

He was married to Anna Clement. His father was a noted mathematician and navigator who spent his life trying to figure out Australia's legendary land.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Explorer Jacob Roggeveen?
He never reached Australia -. Such was the fate of English explorer Charles Sturt

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When was Explorer Jacob Roggeveen born?
Jacob Roggeveen was born in 1-2-1659, death year is , at the age of 365.
Where is Explorer Jacob Roggeveen's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jacob Roggeveen was born in Netherlands. is a Explorer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Jacob Roggeveen's global rank is 37720 and whose rank is 55 in list of famous Explorer.
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Events in 1659 and 1-2

Birthday Jacob Roggeveen (1-2) in history

  • Day 1-2 year 1790: The United States Supreme Court was convened for the first time in New York City.
  • Day 1-2 year 1862: Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
  • Day 1-2 year 1884: The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
  • Day 1-2 year 1946: A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Day 1-2 year 1960: Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
  • Day 1-2 year 1968: During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
  • Day 1-2 year 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
  • Day 1-2 year 2003: The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
  • Day 1-2 year 2004: Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
  • Day 1-2 year 2009: Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
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