Dillon / Renaud Family Tree » Marie Bédard (1664-1703)

Christening day May 17, 1664

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  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1664: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 7 » Louis XIV of France begins construction of the Palace of Versailles.
  • August 1 » Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
  • October 28 » The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

Day of death January 16, 1703

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
  • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
  • May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
  • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
  • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Day of burial January 17, 1703

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
  • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
  • May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
  • August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
  • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1659 » Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
• 1710 » Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675)
• 1711 » Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
• 1747 » Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
• 1748 » Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 » Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)