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Christening day December 21, 1621

• 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 1621: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 17 » Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
  • March 16 » Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
  • March 22 » The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
  • April 5 » The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
  • May 24 » The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
  • June 3 » The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.

Day of marriage September 21, 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
  • January 10 » Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.
  • February 2 » Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
  • July 2 » Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • July 21 » Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
  • September 24 » The Battle of Rowton Heath is a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
  • October 8 » Jeanne Mance open the first lay hospital in North America.

Day of death January 27, 1703

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
  • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
  • May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
  • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1638 » Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish author and poet (b. 1585)
• 1651 » Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1566)
• 1689 » Robert Aske, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1619)
• 1731 » Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)
• 1733 » Thomas Woolston, English theologian and author (b. 1669)
• 1740 » Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1692)