Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling » Agatha van Solms-Laubach (1585-1648)

Christening day October 13, 1585

• Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1585: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 9 » The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
  • July 7 » The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
  • August 8 » John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
  • August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
  • August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.

Day of death November 13, 1648

• Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1648: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
  • May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
  • August 8 » Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
  • October 18 » Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
  • October 24 » The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
  • December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

Day of burial November 23, 1648

• Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1648: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
  • May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
  • August 28 » The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
  • October 18 » Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
  • October 24 » The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
  • December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1606 » Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (b. 1530)
• 1619 » Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1555)
• 1650 » Thomas May, English poet and historian (b. 1595)
• 1726 » Sophia Dorothea of Celle (b. 1666)
• 1770 » George Grenville, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
• 1771 » Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)