Rosendale McParland Fritz Family Tree » Thomas Wright (1548-1617)

Day of marriage April 25, 1568

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1568: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 28 » The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
  • May 2 » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
  • May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
  • May 19 » Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
  • September 23 » Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.

Day of death October 21, 1617

• 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 1617: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 27 » Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.

Day of burial October 21, 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.
  • 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.
  • April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1556 » Pietro Aretino, Italian author (b. 1492)
• 1558 » Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician and scholar (b. 1484)
• 1600 » Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
• 1623 » William Wade, English politician and diplomat, Lieutenant of the Tower of London (b. 1546)
• 1662 » Henry Lawes, English pianist and composer (b. 1595)
• 1687 » Edmund Waller, English poet and politician (b. 1606)