Riches to Rags Family Tree » William Bright (1620-1703)

Christening day January 9, 1620

• 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 1620: Source: Wikipedia
  • June 20 » The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War.
  • August 5 » The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
  • September 6 » The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
  • September 16 » Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
  • November 9 » Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
  • December 21 » Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Day of marriage October 31, 1636

• 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 1636: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 26 » Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
  • April 30 » Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
  • October 4 » Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
  • October 28 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
  • December 13 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.

Day of death January 17, 1703

•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
  • May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
  • August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
  • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1617 » Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop and lexicographer (b. 1551)
• 1705 » John Ray, English botanist and historian (b. 1627)
• 1718 » Benjamin Church, American colonel (b. 1639)
• 1737 » Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• 1738 » Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
• 1751 » Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)