Romanovsky-Krasinsky (Romanoff) Family Tree » Albrecht Friedrich von Hohenzollern, Herzog von Preußen (1553-1618)

Christening day May 7, 1553

• Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1553: Source: Wikipedia
  • July 10 » Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
  • July 19 » Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.
  • August 13 » Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
  • October 1 » Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
  • October 27 » Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
  • December 25 » Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.

Day of marriage October 14, 1573

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1573: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 25 » Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  • January 28 » Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
  • March 7 » A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
  • July 6 » Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
  • July 6 » French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
  • September 10 » German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .

Day of death August 28, 1618

• 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 1618: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
  • May 23 » The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
  • June 14 » Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
  • July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
  • September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
  • October 29 » English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Day of burial January 7, 1618

• 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 1618: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 8 » Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
  • May 15 » Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
  • June 14 » Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
  • July 31 » Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
  • September 18 » The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
  • October 29 » English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1609 » Francis Vere, English governor and general
• 1645 » Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583)
• 1646 » Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (b. 1576)
• 1648 » Charles Lucas, English general (b. 1613)
• 1648 » George Lisle, English general (b. 1610)
• 1654 » Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)