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Decades
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Centuries
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Events
March 27
- Prince Charles Stuart becomes King
Charles I of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
.
June 13
- Marriage of Charles I of
England
and
Henrietta Maria
, Princess of
France
and
Navarra
.
The English
Parliament
refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
William Oughtred
invents the
slide rule
.
James Ussher
becomes
Archbishop of Armagh
.
New Netherlands
director Wilhem Verhulst commissions the construction of
Fort Amsterdam
on the southern tip of
Manhattan
.
Births
June 28
-
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
, Italian astronomer and engineer (died
1712
)
Deaths
March 7
-
Johann Bayer
, astronomer
March 27
- King
James I of England
and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b.
1566
)
June 5
-
Orlando Gibbons
, English composer and organist
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