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Day of marriage August 10, 1648

• Stadhouder Prins Willem II (Huis van Oranje) was from 1647 till 1650 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1648: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
  • May 15 » The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
  • August 28 » The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
  • October 18 » Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization.
  • October 24 » The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
  • December 6 » Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

Day of death February 24, 1667

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  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1667: Source: Wikipedia
  • April 27 » Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
  • May 24 » The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
  • June 9 » Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
  • June 14 » The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
  • June 15 » The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
  • November 25 » A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1666 » Nicholas Lanier, English composer and painter (b. 1588)
• 1685 » Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland (b. 1629)
• 1704 » Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
• 1714 » Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1637)
• 1721 » John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1648)
• 1732 » Francis Charteris, Scottish soldier (b. 1675)