♂ Nicholas Butler

1595 - 1671

Nicholas Butler
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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

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St. George's, Canterbury, Kent, England ⇓
He married firstly a women named Mary Cotterell, who died roughly ten years later in Ashford.
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1613 • English royal favourite Robert Carr is created 1st Earl of Somerset.

1631


Jul 21
Age: 36y

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Canterbury, 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.
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1631 Thirty Years' War: After a two-month siege, an Imperial army under the command of Tilly storms the German city of Magdeburg and brutally sacks it, massacring over 20,000 inhabitants. Shocked by the massacre, many protestant states in the Holy Roman Empire decide to ally with Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and support his ongoing invasion.

1655


Age: 60y

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An exemplification relating to properties held by Nicholas Butler, Thomas Catterall and Thomas Hesketh in Wrightington. His first wife's name was Mary Cotterell.
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1655 • Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh becomes the first actress in Amsterdam theater.

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