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Historical Event(s)
– The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
– San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
– L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
– Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
– Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
– English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
– Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
– Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
– Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
– Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
– Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born English etcher (d. 1677)
– Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
– Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
– John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
– János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania (d. 1662)