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Historical Event(s)
– Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
– Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
– Eighty Years’ War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
– Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (d. 1680)
– Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
– Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
– Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
– Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
– Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
– Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
– Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)