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States and territories established in 1659

  • Saint HelenaOn the 21st of May 1502, a Galician navigator named João da Nova sighted an island in the South Atlantic Ocean while returning to Lisbon.
  • Saint-DomingueIn 1625, French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga. They survived by pirating ships and eating wild cattle and hogs.