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She is married to Magnus Persson Brahe.

They got married on November 19, 1594, she was 27 years old.


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Birthday April 23, 1567

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1567: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 10 » Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
    • March 13 » The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
    • May 15 » Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
    • May 24 » Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
    • July 24 » Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
    • July 25 » Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.

Day of marriage November 19, 1594

  • 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 1594: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 19 » Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
    • February 27 » Henry IV is crowned King of France.
    • June 11 » Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
    • June 23 » The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.
    • July 5 » Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
    • October 9 » Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.

Day of death May 20, 1611

  • 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 1611: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 28 » Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
    • May 2 » The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
    • June 23 » The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
    • October 29 » Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
    • November 1 » Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.


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