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Christoffer Gabel was a Danish statesman. He was the father of Vice Governor-general of Norway,Frederik Gabel.
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Adolph Esmit was a Danish colonial administrator and slave trader who served as governor of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies from 1683 to 1684,and again from 1687 to 1688. He was born in Holstein. His older brother Nicolai Esmit preceded him as governor of St. Thomas.
Jørgen Iversen Dyppel,also called George Iversen or Ifversen,or sometimes Doppel in Knox,was the first governor of the renewed establishment of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies,from 1672 to 1680. His rule was marked by the work to construct a functioning colony and the difficulties of such a task.
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Events from the year 1684 in Denmark.
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