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Personal data Margaret Bowyer 


Household of Margaret Bowyer

She is married to Sir William Spencer.

They got married on March 2, 1578 at London St Margaret Lothbury with St Christopher le Stocks and St Bartholomew by the Exchange, London, England, United Kingdom, she was 21 years old.

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Birthday September 11, 1556

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1556: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Philip II becomes King of Spain.
    • January 23 » The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
    • February 14 » Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
    • March 21 » On the day of his execution in Oxford, former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
    • June 27 » The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
    • November 5 » Second Battle of Panipat: Fought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar.

Christening day February 16, 1568

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1568: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 23 » The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
    • May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
    • May 23 » Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
    • July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
    • September 23 » Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
    • October 20 » The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.

Day of death June 19, 1608

  • 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 1608: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 7 » Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
    • January 17 » Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
    • March 18 » Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
    • April 19 » In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
    • June 3 » Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
    • August 24 » The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.


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