Today in History for Year 1613

Months in Year 1613: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 20th - Peace of Knarodends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
Jan 24th - Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
Jan 28th - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
Jan 29th - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
Feb 7th - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
Feb 20th - Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies
Feb 21st - Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
Mar 27th - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
Jun 29th - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
Jul 2nd - The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
Dec 25th - Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 19th - Jacques Huyn, composer
Jan 26th - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer
Feb 2nd - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
Mar 12th - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
Mar 28th - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
Apr 6th - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
Apr 7th - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School) (d. 1675)
Jun 10th - Johann Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80)
Jun 16th - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
Jun 19th - Christian de Placker, composer
Jun 22nd - Lambert Pietkin, composer
Aug 11th - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer
Aug 15th - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
Sep 15th - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
Oct 13th - Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, queen of Portugal (d. 1666)
Nov 5th - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
Nov 6th - Luis de Garay, composer
Dec 23rd - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Feb 14th - King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
Feb 24th - English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
Dec 26th - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's "Eclogue".

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

Apr 27th - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
May 5th - Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
Aug 7th - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
Aug 9th - Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36
Aug 18th - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
Sep 8th - Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies
Sep 15th - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
Sep 20th - Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
Oct 8th - Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
Oct 22nd - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
Nov 16th - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
Nov 23rd - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64