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1627
| 1627 • Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria, heir apparent of the Habsburg Monarchy and a future Holy Roman Emperor, already King of Hungary ascends to be king of the religiously troubled Bohemia where his (still living) father's repression of Protestantism had triggered the ongoing Thirty Years' War in 1618. |
1656
Jul 1
Age: 29y
marriageElisabetha Schneider Wallau, Hessen-Darmstadt, Prussia ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1656 • The ship Vergulde Draeck is wrecked off Ledge Point, Western Australia after it departs the Cape of Good Hope; rescue missions fail to find survivors. |
1657
Nov 8
Age: 30y
birth of childAnna Catherine Ruehl Wallau, Hessen-Darmstadt, Prussia ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1657 • Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions. |
1689
Age: 62y
| 1689 • Peter the Great plots to overthrow his half-sister Sophia as regent of the Tsardom of Russia. |
1689
Jan 4
| 1689 • First Jacobite rising: Battle of Dunkeld: Covenanters defeat the Jacobites in Scotland. |