Stephenson Family Tree » Sir William Eaton Jones Esq (1554-1632)

Christening day October 9, 1562

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1562: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 17 » France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain.
  • January 18 » Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
  • March 1 » Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
  • July 12 » Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya.
  • December 19 » The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.

Day of marriage June 1, 1585

• 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 1585: Source: Wikipedia
  • March 3 » The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
  • April 9 » The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
  • July 7 » The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
  • August 10 » The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
  • August 17 » A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
  • August 17 » Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.

Day of death March 10, 1632

• 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 1632: Source: Wikipedia
  • 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.

Day of burial July 30, 1593

• 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 1593: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 12 » Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
  • May 12 » London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
  • May 18 » Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
  • June 22 » Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
  • July 25 » Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
  • August 27 » Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1513 » John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1442)
• 1528 » Balthasar Hübmaier, German/Moravian Anabaptist leader
• 1572 » William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
• 1585 » Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
• 1682 » Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)
• 1724 » Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (b. 1641)