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Historical Event(s)
– Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
– Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
– In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
– Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
– Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
– René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
– 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
– Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
– Barbara Strozzi (baptized), Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
– Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
– Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
– Prince Rupert of the Rhine, English Civil War figure (d. 1682)
– Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)