Généalogie Delbarre Sébastien x Joly Delphine » Jean des Reumaux (< 1543-1618)

Day of death August 7, 1618

• 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 1618: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 15 » Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
  • May 23 » The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
  • June 14 » Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
  • July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
  • September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
  • October 29 » English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1616 » Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
• 1632 » Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)
• 1635 » Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)
• 1639 » Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
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