Rosendale McParland Fritz Family Tree » Anna Margretha Weber (1584-± 1694)

Christening day February 18, 1584

• Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1584: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 25 » Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
  • May 16 » Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
  • July 4 » Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
  • July 10 » William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
  • September 13 » San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Day of marriage August 7, 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.
  • 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.
  • May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
  • May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
  • September 14 » Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.

Day of death March 29, 1645

• 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 1645: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 2 » Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
  • June 14 » English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
  • July 2 » Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • August 3 » Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • September 13 » Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
  • September 24 » The Battle of Rowton Heath is a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.

Day of burial February 21, 1694

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1694: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 6 » The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery.
  • July 27 » A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1578 » Arthur Champernowne, English admiral and politician (b. 1524)
• 1578 » Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1527)
• 1628 » Tobias Matthew, English archbishop and academic (b. 1546)
• 1629 » Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1565)
• 1692 » Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1665)
• 1703 » George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, (b. 1678)