Family tree Meijer » Dietrich van Wickede (± 1460-1541)

Day of death May 25, 1541

• Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1541: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
  • April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
  • May 8 » Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
  • August 23 » French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
  • August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
  • September 13 » After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.

Source: Wikipedia

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