April 9 » Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
May 23 » Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.
July 9 » Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
July 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
July 30 » Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
February 22 » Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems .
March 29 » Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
April 15 » Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
July 23 » Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Michael Jacobs, "Family tree Jacobs", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-michael-jacobs/I41218.php : accessed May 8, 2025), "Cornelis Adriana van Nispen (1609-1681)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.