♀ Ursula Blacknell

1589 - 1684

Ursula Blacknell
Spouse
John Hygebed
John Hygebed
1585 - 1647
Children
Edward Higby
Edward Higby
1615 - 1699

1589

1589 Henry IV of France is repulsed in an attempt to capture Paris from the Catholic League.

1612


Age: 23y
1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope.

1615


Age: 26y
1615 • Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the Battle of Osaka.

1684


Age: 95y
1684 John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2, in England.

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