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Historical Event(s)
– The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
– The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
– Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
– Thirty Years’ War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
– The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
– Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
– Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
– Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
– Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696)
– Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
– Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
– Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
– Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
– Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)