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Events
April 5
- In
Virginia
,
Native American
Pocahontas
marries
English
colonist
John Rolfe
.
October 11
-
Adriaen Block
and a group of
Amsterdam
merchants petition the
States General
for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named "
New Netherland
".
The French
Estates-General
meets for the last time before the era of the
French Revolution
. In between,
France
will be governed as an
absolute monarchy
.
John Napier
publishes a paper outlining his discovery of
logarithms
.
The
University of Groningen
is established.
Institution of the
Rosicrucian
Order in
Germany
according to
Fraternitas Rosae Crucis
.
Toyotomi Hideyori
attempts to restore
Osaka Castle
.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
, father of the
Shogun
, is outraged at this act, and takes the castle by storm.
Births
January 1
-
John Wilkins
, clergyman
July 10
-
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
Deaths
April 7
-
El Greco
, artist
August 21
-
Elizabeth Báthory
(
serial killer
)
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