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1595
| 1595 • The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. |
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 • Gregor Richter, the chief pastor of Görlitz, denounces Jacob Boehme as a heretic in his Sunday sermon. |
1623
Jan 22
Age: 28y
| 1623 • The first breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses. |
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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 • Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica. |
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 • Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Breitenfeld, Tilly's imperial army is decisively defeated by Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden, shattering the imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire and marking the first significant victory for the Protestants in the war. |
1637
Age: 42y
immigrationDorchester, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ Pages 54-58 On board the ship the "Hercules". 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1637 • Elizabeth Poole becomes the first woman to have founded a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas. |
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 • The massacre of the Waldensians by Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, memorialized in a poem. |
1671
Aug 13
Age: 76y
| 1671 • In Rome, Pope Clement X canonizes Rose of Lima, making her the first Catholic saint of the Americas. |