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Historical Event(s)
– Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
– Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
– Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
– Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
– Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
– Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
– Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)
– Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
– Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
– Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
– Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
– Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
– Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
– Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)