Family tree Glasmeier (USA) » Ursula Portner von Theuern (1556-1633)

Christening day January 23, 1556

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1556: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
  • February 14 » Coronation of Akbar.
  • February 14 » Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
  • March 21 » On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
  • June 27 » The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
  • November 5 » Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.

Day of marriage September 21, 1631

• 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 1631: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 18 » In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
  • May 20 » The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
  • May 30 » Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
  • June 17 » Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
  • September 17 » Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
  • October 10 » Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.

Day of death February 24, 1633

• 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 1633: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 13 » Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
  • March 1 » Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
  • June 18 » Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
  • June 22 » The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
  • October 22 » The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1563 » Francis, Duke of Guise (b. 1519)
• 1580 » Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (b. 1511)
• 1588 » Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (b. 1515)
• 1666 » Nicholas Lanier, English composer and painter (b. 1588)
• 1685 » Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland (b. 1629)
• 1704 » Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)