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Historical Event(s)
– The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
– The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
– After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
– The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
– The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
– The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby’s plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
– Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
– King Philip IV of Spain, (d. 1665)
– Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
– Patriarch Nikon, 7th patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
– Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
– Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
– Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
– William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
– Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
– Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)