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• The 160 foot Dutch Eastindiaman Wapen van Alkmaar, the 136 foot jacht Kapelle and the 134 foot Pijlswaart were wrecked near Shetland on tour East India - Holland, as well as the flagship of that convoy, the Land van Schouwen, a 160 foot so called spiegelretourschip.
• William Bruce, fifth Laird of Sumburgh, died without heir and was succeeded by his brother Laurence.

• Robert Bruce (1), who became the third Laird Bruce of Symbister, was born.

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