Genealogy Ludwig » Iii Christian (1503-1559)
Personal data Iii Christian
- He was born on August 12, 1503 in Gottorp.
- Title: King of Denmark
- He died on January 1, 1559 in Coldingen, he was 55 years old.
- A child of I Frederick and Anna
Household of Iii Christian
He is married to Dorothea.
They got married on October 29, 1525 at Lauenburg, he was 22 years old.
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Historical events
Birthday August 12, 1503
- Graaf Filips II de Schone (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1494 till 1506 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1503: Source: Wikipedia
- February 13 » Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- April 28 » The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
- May 10 » Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
- August 8 » King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- November 1 » Pope Julius II is elected.
- December 29 » The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
Day of marriage October 29, 1525
- Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1525: Source: Wikipedia
- January 21 » The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
- February 24 » A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
- February 28 » Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
- May 15 » Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
- June 13 » Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
Day of death January 1, 1559
- Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1559: Source: Wikipedia
- January 15 » Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
- April 3 » The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
- May 2 » John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
- June 30 » King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
- August 22 » Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
- December 25 » Pope Pius IV is elected.
Same birth/death day
- 1452 » Abraham Zacuto, Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian († 1515)
- 1503 » Christian III of Denmark († 1559)
- 1506 » Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian († 1576)
- 1591 » Louise de Marillac, co-founder of the Daughters of Charity († 1660)
- 1599 » Sir William Curtius FRS, German magistrate, English baronet († 1678)
- 1604 » Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun († 1651)
- 1496 » Charles d'Orléans, count of Angoulême (b. 1459)
- 1515 » Louis XII, king of France (b. 1462)
- 1559 » Christian III, king of Denmark (b. 1503)
- 1560 » Joachim du Bellay, French poet and critic (b. 1522)
- 1617 » Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1558)
- 1697 » Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine historian and author (b. 1625)
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