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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Syria: 1957/58 ( the year in October )

  • Secured 3.1 Date of birth
  • 3.2 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Thirty Years' War

British Isles

Russia

  • Cossacks under Vasily Poyarkov penetrate to the mouth of the Amur and thus bring large parts of Siberia under the dominion of the Russian Tsar.

Italy

American colonies

  • Peter Stuyvesant was appointed Director General of New Netherland and puts on 28 July from his oath of office. He then makes his way into the colony.
  • The Second English Powhatankrieg ends with the complete defeat and almost total destruction of the Powhatan to the English settlers of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The Treaty provides for a strict boundary between the two peoples, which may be exceeded only with special permission.

Culture

  • Rembrandt van Rijn made ​​the painting winter landscape.
  • The Gressenicher mill in Eschweiler is mentioned for the first time on a map of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster.

Society

  • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, married on 7 December in The Hague, the eldest daughter of the governor Frederick Henry of Orange, Louise Henriette of Orange.

Religion

  • The report drawn up by order of the Long Parliament Westminster Confession is adopted as part of the Westminster standards of the Westminster Synod.

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Born

Secured birth

  • FEBRUARY 4: Hans Assmann Freiherr von Abschatz, German Baroque poet († 1699)
  • April 1: Hermann Otto II of Limburg- Styrum, Imperial Field Marshal († 1704)
  • April 15: Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699 († 1699)
  • APRIL 16: Jules Hardouin -Mansart, French architect († 1708)
  • June 22: Maria Francisca Elisabeth of Savoy, Queen of Portugal ( † 1683)
  • JUNE 25: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher and scholar, first woman to receive a doctorate († 1684)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Joachim von Ahlefeldt, holstein - gottorfischer - Danish statesman and monastery provost of the monastery Preetz († 1717)
  • Juan de Araujo, Peruvian composer († 1717)
  • Andreas Faistenberger, South German painter and sculptor († 1735)
  • Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir, Icelandic designer of embroidery designs († 1715 )
  • Glikl bas Judah body, German clerk, also known as Glückel of Hamelin († 1724)

Died

  • January 6: Elias Holl, German architect of the early Baroque (* 1573)
  • MARCH 11: Stanisław Koniecpolski, Polish nobility member, statesman and the highest military leader of the Polish -Lithuanian Union ( * 1590/1594 )
  • APRIL 27: Konrad Bachmann, German literary scholar, historian and librarian (* 1572)
  • MAY 11: Yagyū Munenori, Japanese sword master and author (* 1571)
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