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Christening day March 8, 1643

• 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 1643: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 14 » Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
  • May 19 » Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
  • July 1 » First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • July 13 » English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
  • August 24 » A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
  • December 13 » English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.

Day of marriage July 12, 1687

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1687: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 19 » Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
  • July 5 » Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
  • August 12 » Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 26 » Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
  • December 31 » The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

Day of death May 12, 1700

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1700: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 26 » The 8.7–9.2 M_w Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
  • February 27 » The island of New Britain is discovered by Europeans.
  • February 28 » Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
  • March 1 » Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1641 » Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1593)
• 1684 » Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)
• 1699 » Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
• 1700 » John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1631)
• 1708 » Adolphus Frederick II, duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
• 1748 » Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic (b. 1692)