| Year | Description | Reference |
| 1,569 AD | Fran‡ois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Edmund Bonner, English bishop of London (1539-49, 53-9), dies at ñ69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Louis Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Lodewijk Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Miles Coverdale, English bible historian (Great bible), dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,569 AD | Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Oak Island (buried treasure) wood carbon dated to this age | TBD |
| 1,570 AD | Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Jacob van den Eynden, land advocate of Holland, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Bartholomeus Latomus, [Steinmetz], Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,570 AD | John Smyth, founder of the "General Baptist" movement, is born. | http://www.angelfire.com/ms/seanie/baptists/baptistorigins.html |
| 1,571 AD | Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Joachim II Hector, monarch (Brandenburg), dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Chƒtillon/bishop/count of Beauvais, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | John Ward, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Michael Praetorius, German music theorist/composer (Syntagma music), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Claude [Togniel] d'Espence, French royal theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,571 AD | Battle of Lepanto. Venetian ship fleet attacks Turkish fleet. | History's Timeline, p 117 |
| 1,572 AD | Jan Campanus, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Charles de F‚ligny, French officer/huguenot, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Dani‰l van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Francisco Borgia, theologist/saint, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Gaspard de Chƒtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Erasmus Widmann, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,572 AD | Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Inigo Jones, London, architect (restored St Paul's Cathedral), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Jacques BonfrŠre, Dutch bible expert, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Marie de'Medici, Queen of France, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern (Catholic League), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Ambrosius Metzger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Caravaggio, Italy, painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Entonius Walaeus, Dutch calvinist theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Gemignano Capilupi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Michel de l'H“pital, chancellor of France (1560-68), dies at about 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Andr‚ de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Spanish prince of Eboli, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,573 AD | Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Christoph Buel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | John Wilbye, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Robert Fludd, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Philip van Saint-Aldegonde, Flemish viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Nicolo Rubini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,574 AD | Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | This day made Oct15 by Roman Catholic Pope Gregory XIII. | TBD |
| 1,575 AD | Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Ren‚e/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,575 AD | Pierre de B‚rulle, French cardinal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Thomas Weelkes, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Sab Vicente de Pa£l, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Don Lu¡s de Requesens y Zu¤iga, Span land guardian of Neth (1573-76) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,576 AD | Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Giovanni Righi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Erik XIV Wasa, King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Giovanni Del Turco, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Fran‡ois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,577 AD | Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Cornelis Haga, lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes, premier of France/gov of Picardi‰, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Valentin Dretzel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,578 AD | Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Valerius Otto, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | John Meursius, [van Meurs], Dutch historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | John Amner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gi‚, French Huguenot leader, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Fran‡ois de Bassompierre, marshal of France, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,579 AD | Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Johann Stobaeus, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | James Ussher, bishop/calculated Earth's beginning (Oct 23, 4004 BC), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Francisco Gomez de Quevado y Villegas, poet/satirist (Vida del Busc¢n), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau/daughter of Willem of Orange, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Hendrik, Portuguese cardinal/epilepticus/regent (1578-80), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Jacob Hillebrand, mayor of Groningen, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | John Bonga, beggar, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes), dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Cunerus Petri, theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,580 AD | Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor to Rotterdam/Utrecht | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Seerp Galama, nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Johann Staden, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Frans Francken, the Younger, painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of Ivan IV "the Terrible", was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Daniel Selich, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,581 AD | Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Johannes Schultz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Microscope invented by Dutch | TBD |
| 1,582 AD | Oct05 Roman Catholics switch over to new time tables. | TBD |
| 1,582 AD | Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Jean Jaurqui, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Johan Earnest earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Thomas Simpson, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,582 AD | Phienas Fletcher, poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Simon Episcopius, Dutch bishop/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Simon Besler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,583 AD | Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Melchior Teschner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Fran‡ois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Willem I "the Silent", [Willem of Orange], earl of Nassau, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Georg R Weckerlin, German poet (Oden und Ges„nge), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,584 AD | Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Johan Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Heinrich Schtz, German royal chaplain master/composer (Daphne), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Gerbrand Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Ercole Porta, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Caspar Bartholin, Malm”, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Friesland, dies at about 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,585 AD | Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Claudio Saracini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Jacob Praetorius, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Paul Siefert, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,586 AD | Pietro Della Valle, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Gaspar de Guzm n, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,587 AD | Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdams merchant/regent, dies at about 82 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish addmiral | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, dies at 87 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | John Winthrop, 1st governor (Mass Bay Colony), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | John Winthrop, English attorney/governor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher (Cartesian), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Nicholas Lanier, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,588 AD | Nicolaus Erich, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Jacques Cl‚ment, French monk (Henri III), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Jean-Antoine de Ba‹f, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Michael Bajus, [Michel de Bay], Belgian theologist, dies at 76? | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Guillaume van Messaus, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Gisbertus Voetius, [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Adolf van Nieuwenaar & Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Catherine de M‚dicis, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,589 AD | Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italy, Pope (1670-76), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Gilles Hayne, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Samuel Ampzing, poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Fran‡ois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Gioseffo Zarlino, composer, dies at 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Philip van Egmont, strategist/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], pontiff of Portugal, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,590 AD | First Opera produced | TBD |
| 1,590 AD | Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Luis de L‚on, scholar/poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Jacqueline M A de Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Michael Lohr, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,591 AD | Gregory XIV, [Niccol• Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Tobias Michael, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov of Fort Emmerik/Heusden, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Erhard Buttner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM (1625-28), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | John Eliot, English parliament leader/author, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Johan Casimir, count of Rhine, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amiti‚), dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Pierre de La Barre, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,592 AD | Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Georges de la Tour, French painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Gottfried Scheidt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Claes P "Nicolaas" Tulip, anatomy/mayor of Amsterdam (1654..71), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist/poet/spy, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | John Penry, English congressionalist, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,593 AD | Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Paul Buys, land advocate of Holland, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Benedikt Lechler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Francesco Manelli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Rene' Descartes born (Cartesian Coordinate System) | TBD |
| 1,594 AD | Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Michel Renichon, priest, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,594 AD | Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | John Wilson, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Ferdinand, archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Francis Drake, English pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Torquato Tasso, poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,595 AD | Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Ren‚ Descartes, France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat (Delightful Folly), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Henry Lawes, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,596 AD | Wang Lang develops "praying mantis" kung fu | TBD |
| 1,596 AD | Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Jos‚ de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Matth˜s Heldt, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Petrus Forestus, [Pieter Foreest], artist (Willem of Orange), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Pieter J Choose, mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,597 AD | Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Neth publisher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Johan Georg, ruler of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Theodorus I, [Fedor Ivanovitsj], czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Johann Crger, German organist/composer/music theorist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Laurentius Erhard, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,598 AD | Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Thomas Selle, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Adrian van Utrecht, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Diego Vel zquez, Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Florence Estienne M‚ric Casaubon, classical scholar, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Jacob Aertsz Colom, publisher (Consolation of the Sea), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,599 AD | Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Simon Ives, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Dutch and French become involved in Slave trade | TBD |
| 1,600 AD | Tycho Brahe dies | TBD |
| 1,600 AD | Arent van Village, governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | John Bruhesius, [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Jos‚ the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59? | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Gabriel Naud‚, France, librarian (Mazarin Library), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Loreto Vittori, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Paul Hallman, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,600 AD | Pedro Cald‚ron de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Jamestown (1st permanent English Settlement) established | TBD |
| 1,601 AD | Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins [or Aug 20], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,601 AD | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Johann Neukrantz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | John Lightfoot, English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Everard van Reyd, historian, dies at about 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Maria de Jesus de Agreda, [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscan, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,602 AD | Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Gov Frederik Hendrik, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Francesco Nigetti, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Christianus Schotanus … Sterringa, Frisian theologist/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Stephan Otto, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | William Smith, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Michael Trumper, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,603 AD | Elizabeth I Tudor, [the Maiden Queen], queen of England, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Giovanale Ancina, composer, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at about 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,604 AD | Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Orazio Benevoli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Simon Dach, German poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Charles C Dassoucy, French writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | John Stow, British historian, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Pieter Bast, [Bastius], engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Daniel von Czepko, German poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Francesco Sacrati, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Giacomo Carissimi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,605 AD | Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Carolus Gallus, [Charles de Cock], lawyer/pastor/vicar, dies at 85 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Rembrandt van R˜n, Leiden, Netherlands, painter (Night Watch), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" is executed at 35 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], classic philologist, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Christoph B von Galen, prince-bishop of Mnster (1650-78), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,606 AD | Edmund Waller, England, poet (Penshust), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Paulus Merula, lawyer/historian, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Johann Rist, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Abraham Megerle, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Invention of telescope. | TBD |
| 1,607 AD | Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,607 AD | Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Death of AristotelianPtolemaic theories via Kepler and Galileo | TBD |
| 1,608 AD | Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Hendrik van Kinschot, [Henricus Kinschotus], lawyer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Martinus A del Rio, Spanish lawyer historian/theologist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Giacomo Torelli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Jean BG duke of Orl‚ans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,608 AD | Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Jacobus Arminius, [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Johan Willem, duke of Jlich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Henry Hudson looks for the "Northwest Passage" | TBD |
| 1,609 AD | Tea introduced to Europe by India | TBD |
| 1,609 AD | John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Michael Franck, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Wenzel E Frst von Lobkowitz, Austrian chencellor (-1674), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Hadji Chalfa/Kƒtib Tsjelebi, Turkish literary (Djihannma), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Heinrich Pape, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | "The Starving Time" in Jamestown. Citizens become cannibals | TBD |
| 1,609 AD | Annibale Carracci, painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,609 AD | Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Michelangelo Merisi, Italian painter, dies at 38 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch Swiss vice-admiral, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Halley's comet passes Terra | Astronomical Clock |
| 1,610 AD | William Shakespeare dies | TBD |
| 1,610 AD | Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Ferdinand II, monarch of Toscane, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,610 AD | Galileo discovers 3 moons around Jupiter. | web |
| 1,611 AD | Felician Schwab, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst Neth, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Hugues de Lionne, French ambassador to Rome, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | John H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Karl IX, King of Sweden (1604-11), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Tom s L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Pablo Bruna, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Valentin Strobel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,611 AD | Carlo Rainaldi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Karel van Cro˜, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Charles van Cro˜, prince of Chimay, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Ernst van Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Keulen, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Henry L Spieghel, merchant/writer, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Menso Alting, reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Michel Anguier, French sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Paul Wirtz, [Wrtz], German/Neth army commander, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Paul de La Pierre, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,612 AD | John Smyth, founder of "General Baptist" movement, dies. | http://www.angelfire.com/ms/seanie/baptists/baptistorigins.html |
| 1,613 AD | Jacques Huyn, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Johan Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Heinrich Julius, [von Braunschweig-Wolfenbttel], duke, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Mathurin R‚gnier, French poet (Macette), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Sebasti n de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Lambert Pietkin, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Christian de Placker, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Fran‡oise duc de la Rochefoucald, Paris France, writer (M‚moires), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,613 AD | Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Philipp Buchner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Nicolas Saboly, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Jacob Col˜n(s), Dutch coat of arms painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Benjamin Rogers, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,614 AD | Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Pieter Both, admiral/1st gov-gen of East Indies (1609-14), drowns | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | John Biddle, English minister (Unitarian), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Pieter, the Great, regent/diplomat, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Christopher Gibbons, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,615 AD | Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Vneneti‰), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | William Shakesphere, Engl author (Hamlet), dies on his 52nd birthday | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Catholic church declares Copernicanism is false and erronious | TBD |
| 1,616 AD | "First American parliament meets at Jamestown Virginia" | TBD |
| 1,616 AD | Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Kaspar Forster, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Cornelis F Schuyt, organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Cornelis Ketel, portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,616 AD | Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Louis Elsevier, publisher, dies at about 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Nicol s Antonio, Spanish scholar (Censura de historias fabulosas), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Pieter C Bockenberg, historian, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Antimo Liberati, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Elias Ashmole, antiquary, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,617 AD | Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Philip Willem, Prince of Orange, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Francesco M Grimaldi, mathematician/physicist (light defraction), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Bartolom Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Jacob Alting, ori‰ntalist/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Jan Six, Dutch mayor of Amsterdam, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Joan Cererols, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,618 AD | Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, executed in London | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | R˜cklof Volckertsz of Goens, governor-general (Neth East Indies), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Barbara Strozzi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, [Dionisio Fiamingo], Flemish painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Virginia planters first purchase black slaves from Dutch | TBD |
| 1,619 AD | Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth Rock | TBD |
| 1,619 AD | Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (Chancellor S‚guier), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | G‚d‚on Tallemant des R‚aux, French author (Historiettes), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,619 AD | Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | John Aerts, Flemish sculptor | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Fran‡ois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Isabella Leonarda, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Jean Picard, French astronomer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Mayflower heads back to England from Plymouth Rock. | TBD |
| 1,620 AD | Johann Weichmann, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | John Evelyn, British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Michael de Ronghe, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian general [or Jan 5], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget) [or May 1], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer K”nigreich), dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,620 AD | Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Dutch West India Company incorporates (an eye on taking trans-Atlantic trade) | TBD |
| 1,621 AD | English parliament passed Act making swearing illegal. | TBD |
| 1,621 AD | Louis II Cond‚, [Great Cond‚], duke of Bourbon (Rocroy), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | P‚ter Zrinyi, Hungarian ruler exile of Croatia, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Felipe III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | John Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Georg Neumark, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,621 AD | Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Jacob Hintze, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Johann Sebastiani, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Juan de Vald‚s Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,622 AD | Susanna van Baerle, poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Cornelis de Witt, Dutch statesman, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | "Virginia becomes a "Crown colony" | TBD |
| 1,623 AD | Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | John I Van de Velde, calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Paolo Sarpi, Italian church-historian/politician, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Fran‡ois-Xavier de Laval, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Johann Adam Reincken, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Antonio Cesti, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,623 AD | Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Dutch West India Company establishes fur trading post in Albany | TBD |
| 1,624 AD | Sir Francis Bacon dies | TBD |
| 1,624 AD | ... Hermite, admiral (Peru), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Anna van H Bartolomaeus, Flemish monk/saint, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Dirck van Baburen, painter (Are), dies at about 28 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Isa„c Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer (Escudero Marcos de Obr‚gon), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Fran‡ois Roberday, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,624 AD | William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Edward Montagu, England, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discoverer (4 satellites of Saturn), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Thomas Corneille, French playwright, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Adriaen Valerius, notary/Neth Gedenck-clanck, dies at about 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Francisco G¢mez de Sandoval y Rojas, Spanish marquis of Denia, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Honor‚ d'urf‚, French writer (L'astr‚e), dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,625 AD | Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | William II, prince of Orange, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Dani‰l Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Aert Jansz van Nes, Lt-admiral, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Giovanni Legrenzi, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Johann Schop, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | John Ferrabosco, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Marie de S‚vign‚, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Paul Hainlein, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Dutch establish "New Amsterdam" (new york) | TBD |
| 1,626 AD | Circulation of blood discovered | TBD |
| 1,626 AD | Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, statesman, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,626 AD | Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Robinson Crusoe, fictional character according to Daniel Defoe, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Thomas Bullis, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Alfonso Marsh, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish States-General, dies at about 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Luis de G¢ngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Anne ML of Orl‚ans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Fidel Molitor, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Jacques-B‚nigne Bossuet, theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Pierre Verdier, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,627 AD | Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Christoph Bernhard, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Cornelis Evertsen de Young, vice admiral of Zealand, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Galileo releases "Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems" | TBD |
| 1,628 AD | Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Fran‡ois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at 63? | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | John Bull, organist/composer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,628 AD | Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Pierre the B‚rulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Willem Teellinck, theologist/vicar, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Niels Juel, Danish admiral (Oland, Moen, Kj”gebocht), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Cornelis Tromp, Dutch lt-adm-gen/son of Maarten Tromp, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Juan Jos‚, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,629 AD | John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/gov-gen of East-Indies, dies at 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Tetsugen, Japan, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Ambrogio Sp¡nola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter/etcher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Charles II, King of England (1660-85), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Flemish painter Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Jos‚ Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Maria van Oosterw˜ck, Dutch flower painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,630 AD | John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Cornelis de Heem, painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) [NS=Aug 19], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Nicolaus Erich, composer, dies at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,631 AD | Clemens Thieme, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Jean de Tilly, fieldmarshal, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, Astronomer), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | "Colony of "Connecticut" founded" | TBD |
| 1,632 AD | Antony van Leeuwenhoek born (discoverer of microbiology) | Scientific American, Apr98, pp 50 |
| 1,632 AD | Pietro Reggio, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) (or 1751), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,632 AD | Albert Schop, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Gabriel Schutz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | James II Stuart, king of England/Scotland (James VII) (1685-88), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Joseph de La Barre, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Jacopo Peri, composer, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Samuel Pepys, English Navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Sebastian Knupfer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Galileo dies | TBD |
| 1,633 AD | S‚bastien le Prestre de Vauban, French fortress architect, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/Wolfenbttel/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,633 AD | Werner Fabricius, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Van Friedland/Mecklenburg, general-admiral, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Joannes Camphuys, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1684-91), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist/jansenist (J‚sus-Christ P‚nitent), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Adam Krieger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, [Waldstein], German duke, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,634 AD | Erasmus Widmann, composer, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Jonkheer Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Gent, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Pieter Christiaensz, Bor, historian, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist (Micrographia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Willem … Brakel, Frisian theologist (Reasonable religion), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Pal Esterhazy, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (La Secchia Rapita), dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,635 AD | Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | Daniel Speer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | John Oldham, trader in Mass, murdered by indians | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | Herman Witsius, [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | Johann David Mayer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | Pietro Sanmartini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,636 AD | Esaias Reusner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Susanna van Baerle (Sterre], wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Valentin Molitor, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch marquis of Chƒtillon/co-owner of Surinam, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Henri‰tte Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | John van der Heyden, Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Nicolaas Van de Veken, Flemish sculptor (based on confession), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/govt leader (OIC), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungarian/German Emperor (1619-37), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,637 AD | Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gi‚, French hugenot leader, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier, Huguenot leader, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | John Ward, composer, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | John Wilbye, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Paul Moreelse, painter/master builder, dies at about 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Earnest R Tarhemberg, Austrian fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France (1643-1715) [OS], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Louis XIV, [Sun King], king of France (1643-1715) [NS], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Matteo Coferati, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Meindert Hobbema, Amsterdams landscape painter, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (The Sun), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,638 AD | David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, is assassinated | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | John Meursius, [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Mustafa I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Simon van de Pose, governor of Cape colony (1679-99), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | No‰l Alexandre, French theologian/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,639 AD | Bernard, duke of Saksen-Weimar (Rheinfelden), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Agostino Agazzari, Italian, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Andr‚ Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Hendrick C Devout, seascape painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,640 AD | Abraham Mignon, still life painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Fran‡ois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | John Amner, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Fran‡ois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Dudley North, financier/economist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist (against jansenisme), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Cornelis C Jol, [Houtebeen], adm (South-America), dies at about 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,641 AD | Franciscus Gomarus, [Fran‡ois Gomaer], opera star, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Christian Weise, German writer (Niederl„ndische Bauer), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Sir Issac Newton is born | TBD |
| 1,642 AD | "Louis XIV (the "Sun King") becomes King of France at 5 years old" | TBD |
| 1,642 AD | Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Georg Schmezer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Frans Francken, the Younger, painter, dies on 61st birthday | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 78 in Italy | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Marco da Gagliano, Ital's opera composer, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Johann Quirsfeld, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,642 AD | Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Simon Episcopius, bishop/theologist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Sweder van Haersolte, mister of Swaluwenborch/diplomat, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Manchu invasions destroy most Shaolin Monastaries | TBD |
| 1,643 AD | Isaac Newton, scientist (Whatever goes up) [NS], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Jose Solana, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Christian Demelius, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,643 AD | Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | William Penn, English Quaker & founder of PA, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Manchu (Ta Ch'ing) dynasty until 1912 | TBD |
| 1,644 AD | Tai Chi taught by "stranger" to Chi Lung-feng | TBD |
| 1,644 AD | Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Fran‡oise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Isabella van Bourbon, French princess of Henri IV, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, suicide | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Gottfried Wegner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Jean Rousseau, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Louis Boufflers, marshall of France, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Olaus Rímer, Denmark, 1st to accurately measured speed of light, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,644 AD | Thomas Eisenhut, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Aert de Gelder, painter (King David), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Gottfried Vopelius, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at about 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Francisco G¢mez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Gaspar de Guzm n, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | William Smith, composer, dies at 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Swearing made punishable by death in England | TBD |
| 1,645 AD | Jean de La BruyŠre, French author, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,645 AD | August Kuhnel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Fran‡ois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Zeger B van Espen, Flemish theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Antoine Galland, French ori‰ntalist/interpreter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Guillaume Poitevin, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, Silesian poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,646 AD | Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Konrad Hoffler, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Massaniello, [Tommaso Aniello], Napolitan rebel, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Johan van Beverwijck, physician (Treas of Ongesontheyt), dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Frederik Henry, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Gerard Noodt, Dutch lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Johan Georg III, elect of Saxon (1680-91), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,647 AD | John Foot, lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | John Luyken, poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Johann Schelle, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic (qui‚tisme), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Luis de Nain, painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,648 AD | Louis Bouteiller, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Simon Vouet, French painter | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Jansz Vos], regent, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Elisabeth Bas, wife of Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), executed by Parliament | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Rene' Descartes dies | TBD |
| 1,649 AD | James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Johann Valentin Meder, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Joseph-Fran‡ois Salomon, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Pascal Collasse, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Andreas Kneller, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,649 AD | Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Elements known by ancients isolated: "C Fe S Cu As Ag Sn Sb Au Hg Pb Bi" | TBD |
| 1,650 AD | Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 74? | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Rene Descartes, philosopher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Ren‚ Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress of King Charles II, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Johann Samuel Welter, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,650 AD | Jamaica seized by England from Spain | TBD |
| 1,651 AD | Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Engelbrecht K„mpfer, German/Neth VOC surgeon, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Domenico Gabrielli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Zaccaria Tevo, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Johann Michael Zacher, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern (Codex Maximilianus), dies at 78 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,651 AD | Fran‡ois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/mayor (Brugge), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Johann Krieger, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Louis Le Quointe, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Petrus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Thomas Otway, England, playwright/poet (Venice Preserved), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | William Dampier, English explorer/pirate, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,652 AD | Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto grossi), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Benedict Schultheiss, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Georg Muffat, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Johann Pachelbel, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Johan van Galen, fleet supervisor (Monte Christo), dies at about 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Johannes Schultz, composer, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, [Bestevaer], lt-adm, dies in battle at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Adriaen Peacock, pension advisor for Holland, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen of Neth East Indies, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguistic, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Gabriel Naude, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,653 AD | Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Fran‡ois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Agostino Steffani, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Paul Potter, painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,654 AD | Ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Edmund Halley born (Halley's Comet) | TBD |
| 1,655 AD | Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Louis Willem I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Sebastien de Brossard, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Angelo Predieri, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Fran‡ois Fagel, fieldmarshal, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Innocentius X, [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | John W van Brederode, governor/fieldmarshal, dies at 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,655 AD | Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Stephan Otto, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | John J van Goyen, landscape painter, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Birth of modern Chemestry. | TBD |
| 1,656 AD | Marin Marias, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Armagh James USsher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Johan van Heemskerk, lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8], was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,656 AD | Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Imre Th”k”ly, Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Manuel de Egues, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Pieter van Flowers, [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Hadji Chalfa/Kƒtib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Jacob van Eyck, blindly flautist, dies at 69 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,657 AD | Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | James I, king of England (1603-25), dies at 92 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Maria Margaretha van Angels, prior to Oirschot, dies at 52 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, Engl Lord High Admiral, dies at ñ70 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Francisco de Borja y Arag¢n Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,658 AD | Georg Philipp Harsd”rfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antoine Mouque, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antonio Veracini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Simon Dach, German poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Ferdinand W, prince of Wrttemberg-Neustadt/gen Dutch infantry, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Franz Weichlein, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,659 AD | Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | George I, King of England (1714-27), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Sebastian Duron, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johannes Schenck, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Charles X Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Gy”rgy R k¢czi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Jean BG duke of Orl‚ans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Judith Jansdochter Leyster, House painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Klaas Geritsz Compaen, buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Johann Kuhnau, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,660 AD | Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Mehmed K”prl, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | William Leddra, last Quaker in Boston, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elected (Anti-Lucretius), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Louis XIV rules France on his own (24 years old) | TBD |
| 1,661 AD | Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, dies at 74 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,661 AD | John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bayern, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | "England seizes New Amsterdam from Dutch renaming it "New York" | TBD |
| 1,662 AD | Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, dies at 65 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Johann Crger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | John Tradescant, gardener, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Leonhart Nucleus, German sculptor, dies at about 73 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Giuseppi Vignola, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,662 AD | Jan F Van Bloom, [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye/land guardian of Austria-Neth, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Pierre Drevet, French engraver, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Nicholas Siret, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,663 AD | Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Matthew Prior, English poet, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Louis Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist, architect (baptized), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | John Vanbrugh, English architect/playwright baptized, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johann Christoph Pez, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Great Plague in London kills 75k (Bubonic) | TBD |
| 1,664 AD | Adam Willaerts, seascape painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Moise Amyrault, French theologist/vicar, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Georg Osterreich, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch pension advisor (1727-36), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,664 AD | Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Lodew˜k van Nassau, Bavarian diplomat, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat thesis), dies at 24 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pieter J Saenredam, architect, dies at 67 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Nicolas Bernier, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Great fire of London | TBD |
| 1,665 AD | "Newton "discovers" gravity" | TBD |
| 1,665 AD | Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,665 AD | Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 78 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 80 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Pieter de Bitter, admiral (Colombo, Goa) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johnathan Swift born | TBD |
| 1,666 AD | Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Alphonse d' Eve, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Henri‰tte Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Fran‡ois Valent˜n, Dutch vicar/writer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Adam Krieger, composer, dies at 32 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Adriaen A Bloemaert, landscape painter, dies at about 56 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Alexander Brome, British poet | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,666 AD | Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann J Froberger, German singer/composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Gabriel Metsu, painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Francesco Manelli, composer, dies at 72 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Calculus discovered by Newton and Leibniz. | TBD |
| 1,667 AD | Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jean Bernoulli, mathematician, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Jean-Louis Lully, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer/Luthers pi‰tist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Georg Bronner, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Rist, composer, dies at 60 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,667 AD | Johann Jacob Froberger, composer, dies at 50 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Fran‡ois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Francesco Gasparini, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Jean Gilles, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Johan Georg IV, ruler of Saxon (1691-94), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Wierich PL earl von Daun, East prince of Thiano, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Cajetan Kolberer, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,668 AD | Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | "P" Isolated | TBD |
| 1,669 AD | Bacteria first observed through microscope (Anton van Leeuwenhoek) | TBD |
| 1,669 AD | Fran‡ois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname/Algeria), was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Louis Marchand, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Mauritius Vogt, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Miguel Lopez, composer, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter, was born | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Rembrandt H van R˜n, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Lieuwe van Aitzema, Fries historian, dies at 68 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, dies at 87 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazili‰), dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abraham Cr˜nssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers buried at 31 | NewDay PC DB |
| 1,669 AD | Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 | NewDay PC DB |