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Personal data Sophia van Brandenburg 


Household of Sophia van Brandenburg

She is married to Christiaan I Wettin Keurvorst van Saksen.

They got married on April 25, 1582 at Dresden, Saksen, she was 13 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Sophia van Saksen  1587-1635

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Birthday June 6, 1568

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1568: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 28 » The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
    • May 2 » Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
    • May 13 » Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
    • May 16 » Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
    • July 21 » Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
    • October 20 » The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.

Day of marriage April 25, 1582

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1582: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • June 21 » Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
    • July 2 » Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
    • October 4 » The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
    • October 14 » Because of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
    • November 28 » In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.

Day of death December 17, 1622

  • 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 1622: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 12 » Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
    • March 22 » Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
    • April 22 » The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
    • June 24 » Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
    • December 18 » Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
    • December 22 » The town of Bucaramanga, Colombia, is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor.


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