Stephenson Family Tree » Guy Marshall (1550-1600)

Day of marriage January 17, 1573

• Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1573: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 28 » Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
  • March 7 » A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
  • May 26 » The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
  • July 13 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
  • September 10 » German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .
  • October 8 » End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.

Day of death January 2, 1600

• 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 1600: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 17 » On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
  • February 19 » The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
  • March 20 » The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
  • August 5 » The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
  • October 6 » Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
  • December 31 » The British East India Company is chartered.

Day of burial January 30, 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.
  • June 3 » Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
  • July 3 » Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
  • August 24 » The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1512 » Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
• 1514 » William Smyth, English bishop and academic (b. 1460)
• 1543 » Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
• 1557 » Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)
• 1613 » Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
• 1614 » Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)