Stephenson Family Tree » Jean TRAILLOUR (1472-1541)

Day of marriage July 3, 1493

• Graaf Maximiliaan (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1482 till 1494 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1493: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 15 » While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
  • March 15 » Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
  • September 26 » Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
  • November 3 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
  • November 18 » Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
  • November 19 » Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).

Day of death August 14, 1541

• Graaf Karel II (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1515 till 1555 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
• In the year 1541: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 15 » King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
  • April 7 » Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
  • May 8 » Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
  • June 26 » Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
  • September 30 » Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
  • December 10 » Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1390 » John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
• 1433 » John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
• 1464 » Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
• 1573 » Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
• 1657 » Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
• 1691 » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)