Whitworth Tree » John Christian Patterson 10 S (1600-1679)

Birthday January 22, 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.
  • October 21 » Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1552 » Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer († 1618)
• 1561 » Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales († 1626)
• 1570 » Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library († 1631)
• 1573 » John Donne, English poet and cleric in the Church of England, wrote the Holy Sonnets († 1631)
• 1592 » Pierre Gassendi, French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher († 1655)
• 1645 » William Kidd, Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (probable; d. 1701)