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Personal data Frederik II van Denemarken 


Household of Frederik II van Denemarken

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Sophia van Mecklenburg-Gustrow) is also his cousin.

He is married to Sophia van Mecklenburg-Gustrow.

They got married on July 20, 1572 at Kopenhagen, Denemarken, he was 38 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Anna van Denemarken  1574-1619 
  3. Augusta van Denemarken  1580-1639 

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Birthday July 1, 1534

  • Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1534: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 20 » Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    • June 29 » Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
    • July 4 » Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
    • July 7 » Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
    • July 24 » French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
    • November 3 » English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

Day of marriage July 20, 1572

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1572: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
    • April 1 » In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
    • August 23 » French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
    • October 20 » Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
    • November 11 » Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
    • December 23 » Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.

Day of death April 4, 1588

  • 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 1588: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 28 » The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
    • May 30 » The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
    • July 19 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
    • July 29 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
    • July 31 » The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
    • August 8 » Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.


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