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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 • The New River is opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire. |
1623
Jan 22
Age: 28y
| 1623 • On the coast of Massachusetts Bay, the settlement that will become the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts is first inhabited by men from Dorchester, England. |
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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 • The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer. |
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 • Tulip mania collapses in the Dutch Republic. |
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 • Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram. |
1671
Aug 13
Age: 76y
| 1671 • In Rome, Pope Clement X canonizes Rose of Lima, making her the first Catholic saint of the Americas. |