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Historical Event(s)
– Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
– Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
– The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
– The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
– The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
– The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
Who Were Born On ?
– Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
– John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
– Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish polymath (d. 1682)
– Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
– Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
– Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish aristocrat and soldier (d. 1675)
– James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
– Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645)
– Hermann Conring, German intellectual (d. 1681)
– Jeanne Mance, French settler of New France (d. 1673)