Mitchell/Stewart Tree » Joane Brooke (1559-1634)

Christening day May 11, 1555

• Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1555: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 22 » The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
  • February 4 » John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
  • February 9 » Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
  • July 2 » Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
  • July 18 » The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
  • November 1 » French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Day of marriage June 18, 1576

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1576: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 20 » The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
  • February 5 » Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
  • March 8 » Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
  • March 25 » Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
  • July 11 » While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
  • November 4 » Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).

Day of death October 10, 1634

• 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 1634: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 4 » The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
  • August 18 » Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
  • September 6 » Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
  • September 12 » A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
  • October 11 » The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
  • November 11 » Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1581 » Bayinnaung, Burmese king (b. 1516)
• 1659 » Abel Tasman, Dutch merchant and explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 » Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)
• 1691 » Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 » David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1659)
• 1714 » Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist and academic (b. 1646)