1588
| 1588 • Day of the Barricades in Paris: Henry I, Duke of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee. |
1605
Age: 17y
birth of childThomas Shelton England ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1605 • The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England. |
1650
Age: 62y
| 1650 • Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards. |