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Events
January 20
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Mathias
becomes
Holy Roman Emperor
.
Antonius Magirus 's
Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck
is published.
Popular uprising in
Moscow
expels Polish troops.
Trial of the witches in Pendle,
Lancashire
is held.
December 28
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Galileo Galilei
was the first
astronomer
to observe the
planet
Neptune
when it was in
conjunction
with
Jupiter
, yet he mistakenly catalogued it as a
fixed star
because of its extremely slow motion along the
ecliptic
. Neptune was not truly discovered until
1846
, about 234 years after Galileo first sighted it with his
telescope
.
Births
Antoine Arnauld
, French theologian (d.
1694
)
Anne Bradstreet
, English-born American poet (d.
1672
)
Samuel Butler
, English satirist (d.
1680
)
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve
, French colonial missionary and first governor of Montréal (d.
1676
)
Thomas Fairfax
, English general, commander in chief of the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War (d.
1671
)
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
, Scottish soldier (d.
1650
)
Saskia van Uylenburg
, wife of
Rembrandt van Rijn
(d.
1642
)
Deaths
January 20
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Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
May 24
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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
, English statesman and minister (b.
1563
)
August 12
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Giovanni Gabrieli
, Italian composer (b. c.
1555
)
November 6
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Henry, Prince of Wales
Ahmed I
- Ottoman emperor
Giovanni Battista Guarini
, Italian poet (b.
1538
)
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