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Historical Event(s)
– Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
– Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
– Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
– The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
– Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
– François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
– Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
– John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
– Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
– Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
– John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)