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In 1830, a disgruntled ex-employee of the estate attempted to steal what he thought was Washington's skull, prompting the construction of a more secure vault. [359] In his will, Washington had left instructions for the construction of a new vault as the old family vault was crumbling and needed repair even before his death. [ 350 ]
The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as Formosa, was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668. In the context of the Age of Discovery, the Dutch East India Company established its presence on Formosa to trade with the Ming Empire in neighbouring China and Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and also to interdict Portuguese and Spanish trade and ...
[72] [73] In 1812, Gia Long issued the Gia Long Code, which was instituted based on the Ch'ing Code of China, replaced the previous Thánh Tông's 1480 Code. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 69 ] In 1811, a coup d'état broke out in the Kingdom of Cambodia , a Vietnamese tributary state, forcing the pro-Vietnamese King Ang Chan II to seek support from Vietnam.