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1616 in History
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January 24 Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver February 26 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo March 5 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index March 20 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana April 23 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England April 30 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen May 3 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war October 25 VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia November 20 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War |
Miguel de Cervantes 1547 - 1616 William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Francis Beaumont 1584 - 1616 |
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