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Personal data Dorothy Chichester
- She was born on October 15, 1556 in Pilton, Devon, England.
- She was christened on October 15, 1556 in Shirwell, Devon, England.
- She died on April 1, 1604 in Pilton, Devon, England, she was 47 years old.
- She is buried in Kings Nympton, Devon, England.
- A child of John Chichester and Gertude Courtenay
- This information was last updated on October 18, 2023.
Household of Dorothy Chichester
She is married to Hugh Pollard.
They got married on April 9, 1576 at Shirwell, Devon, England, she was 19 years old.
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Birthday October 15, 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 » Coronation of Akbar.
- 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."
- September 15 » Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- 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.
Day of marriage April 9, 1576
- Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1576: Source: Wikipedia
- January 20 » The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- February 5 » Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- March 25 » Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
- May 1 » Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- July 11 » While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
- July 12 » Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.
Day of death April 1, 1604
- 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 1604: Source: Wikipedia
- June 24 » Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- September 1 » Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
- October 9 » Supernova 1604 is sighted, the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
- October 17 » Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
- November 1 » William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
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- 1608 » Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician († 1647)
- 1622 » Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man († 1686)
- 1528 » Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. 1470)
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