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Historical Event(s)
– Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
– The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
– The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
– The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
– The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
– Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
– San Marino adopts its written constitution.
– Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
– Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
– The British East India Company is chartered.
Who Were Born On ?
– Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
– Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
– Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
– Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
– Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)