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Household of Wilhelm (Wilhelm I) zu Solms-Braunfels

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Maria Amalia von Nassau-Dillenburg) is also his cousin.

He is married to Maria Amalia von Nassau-Dillenburg.

They got married on August 23, 1600 at Dillenburg, Allemagne, he was 30 years old.


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Birthday April 18, 1570

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1570: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 23 » James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
    • May 20 » Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
    • September 10 » Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
    • November 1 » The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

Day of marriage August 23, 1600

  • 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 1600: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 17 » On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
    • February 19 » The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
    • March 20 » The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
    • October 6 » Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
    • October 21 » Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
    • December 31 » The British East India Company is chartered.

Day of death February 3, 1635

  • 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 1635: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 23 » The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
    • May 30 » Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
    • July 28 » In the Eighty Years' War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
    • July 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
    • October 9 » Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
    • November 22 » Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.


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