It’s game time! 🎰 I've got a fun challenge for you—can I guess your date of birth in less than 20 tries? Here’s how it works: I’ll give you a series of dates, and based on your answers, I’ll try to figure out your special day 🎂 It’s all in good fun, and it’s all about you! 🥳 Give it a shot, and let’s see if I can nail it down with this birthday guessing game 🎉 (Sponsored by MyBirthday.Ninja)
Historical Event(s)
– England’s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
– Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
– Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
– The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
– The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
– Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
– Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
– The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
– Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
Who Were Born On ?
– Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
– Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
– Grinling Gibbons Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
– John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
– Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
– Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
– King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
– Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
– Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)