Genealogy Thrutchley/Anderson/Fitzgerel/Cox/Staley » Richard WEEDEN Werden (1541-1623)

Birthday January 13, 1541

• Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1541: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
  • May 8 » Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
  • June 26 » Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
  • August 29 » The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
  • September 11 » Santiago, Chile, is besieged by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards decapitated them and rolled their heads on the main square, horrifying the indigenous warriors, and subsequently ending the attack.
  • December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1477 » Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland († 1527)
• 1505 » Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg († 1571)
• 1562 » Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier († 1601)
• 1596 » Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter and illustrator († 1656)
• 1610 » Maria Anna of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria († 1665)
• 1616 » Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and author († 1680)