Today in History for Year 1644

Months in Year 1644: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 18th - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
Jan 24th - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
Feb 5th - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
Mar 7th - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
Mar 14th - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
Mar 19th - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
Mar 31st - Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
Apr 29th - Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
May 6th - Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
May 23rd - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
May 28th - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
Jun 11th - Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
Jul 2nd - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
Sep 2nd - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
Sep 5th - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
Sep 15th - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
Sep 17th - French troops occupy Mainz
Oct 23rd - Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
Oct 27th - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
King of England King Charles I Nov 19th - 1st protestant ministry society in New England
Nov 23rd - Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published.
Dec 4th - 1st European peace congress opens in Munster

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 10th - Louis Boufflers, marshall of France
Mar 18th - Gottfried Wegner, composer
Mar 20th - Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)
Apr 7th - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
Apr 17th - Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized
May 23rd - Thomas Eisenhut, composer
Jun 16th - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
Jul 2nd - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
Jul 12th - Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals)
Aug 6th - Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV
Aug 12th - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer
Aug 12th - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer
Sep 5th - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft)
Sep 6th - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
Sep 14th - Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent
Sep 25th - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
Oct 1st - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
Oct 1st - Jean Rousseau, composer
Oct 2nd - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn (Oct 14th) Oct 14th - William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
Dec 23rd - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer
Dec 30th - Philips van Almonde, Dutch Zeeuws lt-admiral

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 30th - William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
Mar 5th - Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73
Mar 19th - Chongzhen, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
Mar 24th - Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies
Jun 16th - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
Jul 2nd - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24
Jul 29th - Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies
Aug 5th - J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
Sep 4th - John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87
Sep 7th - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
Sep 8th - Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies
Oct 6th - Elisabeth (In Spanish Isabel) of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
Nov 10th - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
Dec 30th - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)