Swartz/Rand Family Tree » William CLARKE (1593-1645)

Christening day May 17, 1593

• 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 1593: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 12 » Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
  • May 12 » London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
  • May 18 » Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
  • June 22 » Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
  • July 25 » Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
  • August 27 » Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.

Day of marriage November 24, 1631

• Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1631: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 18 » In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
  • May 20 » The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
  • May 30 » Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
  • June 17 » Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
  • June 20 » The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
  • October 10 » Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.

Day of death March 18, 1645

• Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1645: Source: Wikipedia
  • May 20 » Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
  • July 21 » Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
  • August 3 » Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • August 13 » Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro.
  • September 13 » Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
  • October 8 » Jeanne Mance open the first lay hospital in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1582 » Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)
• 1675 » Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
• 1689 » John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
• 1745 » Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
• 1768 » Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)
• 1781 » Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)