Holicky Family Tree » Joan Hurst (1568-1621)

Christening day September 19, 1574

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1574: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 30 » Henry III becomes King of France.
  • August 30 » Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
  • October 3 » The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
  • November 22 » Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

Day of marriage November 12, 1584

• Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1584: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 25 » Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
  • May 16 » Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
  • July 4 » Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
  • July 10 » William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
  • September 13 » San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Day of death January 11, 1621

• 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 1621: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 9 » Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
  • March 16 » Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
  • April 5 » The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
  • May 24 » The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
  • June 3 » The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
  • June 21 » Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

Day of burial April 9, 1619

• 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 1619: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 13 » Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
  • June 10 » Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
  • July 30 » In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
  • August 28 » Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • November 7 » Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
  • December 4 » Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1546 » Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
• 1547 » Pietro Bembo, Italian poet, scholar, and theorist (b. 1470)
• 1554 » Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493)
• 1641 » Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (b. 1583)
• 1696 » Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary, and explorer (b. 1616)
• 1703 » Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632)