Genealogy Rijerkerk - Bronner » Georg V Zu SAYN WITTGENSTEIN (1565-1631)

Personal data Georg V Zu SAYN WITTGENSTEIN 


Household of Georg V Zu SAYN WITTGENSTEIN

He is married to Elisabeth Van NASSAU WEILBURG.

They got married on June 12, 1596 at Berleburg (DE), he was 31 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Ernst Van SAYN  1599-1649 

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Birthday April 30, 1565

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1565: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 1 » The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
    • April 27 » Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
    • May 18 » The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
    • August 28 » Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
    • September 8 » The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
    • October 18 » Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.

Day of marriage June 12, 1596

  • 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 1596: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 10 » Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
    • June 17 » The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
    • September 20 » Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
    • October 19 » The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities

Day of death December 16, 1631

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1631: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 20 » The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
    • May 30 » Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
    • June 17 » Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
    • June 20 » The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
    • September 17 » Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
    • October 10 » Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.


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