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Day of marriage November 7, 1585

• 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 1585: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
  • April 9 » The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
  • August 8 » John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
  • August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
  • August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.

Day of death November 24, 1607

• 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 1607: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
  • February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
  • April 25 » Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
  • April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
  • May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
  • September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.

Day of burial December 4, 1607

• 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 1607: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 19 » San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
  • January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
  • March 10 » Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
  • April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
  • May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
  • September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1572 » John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (b. 1510)
• 1583 » René de Birague, French cardinal (b. 1506)
• 1615 » Sethus Calvisius, German composer and theorist (b. 1556)
• 1642 » Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (b. 1592)
• 1650 » Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1566)
• 1675 » Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian guru (b. 1621)