Family tree Bindt » Grietje Alberts Mul van Oostsanen (1637-1708)

Christening day October 18, 1637

• 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 1637: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 15 » Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
  • February 18 » Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
  • May 26 » Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
  • September 29 » 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.

Day of marriage February 7, 1655

•  This page is only available in Dutch.
  Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1655: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 14 » The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
  • March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
  • May 19 » The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
  • July 31 » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
  • August 23 » Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.

Day of death September 27, 1708

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1708: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 11 » Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
  • March 23 » James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
  • September 11 » Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empire ceases to be a major power.
  • October 9 » Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1674 » Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589)
• 1700 » Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
• 1719 » George Smalridge, English bishop (b. 1662)
• 1730 » Laurence Eusden, English poet and author (b. 1688)
• 1735 » Peter Artedi, Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705)
• 1742 » Hugh Boulter, Irish archbishop (b. 1672)