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1595
| 1595 • Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London. |
1613
Feb 13
Age: 18y
marriageSt. George's, Canterbury, Kent, England ⇓ He married firstly a women named Mary Cotterell, who died roughly ten years later in Ashford. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1613 • Samuel de Champlain becomes the first unofficial Governor of New France. |
1623
Jan 22
Age: 28y
| 1623 • The second Thanksgiving is celebrated at Plymouth Plantation. |
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Jan 2
Age: 29y
1624
Jan 2
Age: 29y
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birth of childJohn Butler Ashford, Kent, England ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1624 • Frans Hals produces the painting now known as the Laughing Cavalier.Wallace Collection, London. |
1631
Jul 21
Age: 36y
eventCanterbury, Kent, England ⇓ Him and John Harker, Joyce's stepfather, were plaintiffs in Canterbury against defendant Ursula Vanner, late wife of Henry Vanner, who died 1630, mentioning his cousin Joyce, daughter of Richard Baker, in his will. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1631 • The city of Würzburg is taken by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, putting an end to the Würzburg witch trials, but not before an estimated 900 people from the city and its environs had been burned at the stake for witchcraft. |
1637
Age: 42y
immigrationDorchester, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ Pages 54-58 On board the ship the "Hercules". 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1637 • France places a few missionaries in the Côte d'Ivoire, a country it will rule more than 200 years later. |
1655
Age: 60y
eventAn exemplification relating to properties held by Nicholas Butler, Thomas Catterall and Thomas Hesketh in Wrightington. His first wife's name was Mary Cotterell. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1655 • New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bar colonial Jews from military service. |
1671
Aug 13
Age: 76y
| 1671 • Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II. |