Children
1600
| 1600 • William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published. |
1635
Age: 35y
| 1635 • Willem and Joan Blaeu publish the first edition of their Atlas Novus in Amsterdam. |
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Age: 42y
1642
Age: 42y
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birth of childJoseph Chaffe Nantasket, Massachusetts, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1642 • First English Civil War: Charles I attempts to arrest 6 leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. |
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Jul 25
Age: 88y
1688
Jul 25
Age: 88y
| 1688 • King James II of England orders his Declaration of Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from every Anglican pulpit in England. The Church of England and its staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on June 8 the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, is imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to proclaim it. |
1688
| 1688 • Death of Friedrich Wilhelm, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg-Prussia. Friedrich III becomes Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia until 1701, when he becomes the first King of Prussia as Friedrich I. |