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Personal data Sir William Harris 


Household of Sir William Harris

He is married to Alice Smythe.

They got married on May 6, 1583 at St Gabriel Fenchurch, London, England, he was 26 years old.

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Birthday September 21, 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.
    • 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."
    • September 15 » Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.

Day of death November 14, 1616

  • 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 1616: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 12 » The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
    • February 26 » Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
    • March 20 » Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
    • May 3 » Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
    • July 11 » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
    • October 25 » Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.


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