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unusual facts about 1629


Benzelius family

Henrik Jacobsson was born on the island of Hindersön in the archipelago of Luleå, where he was until 1629 a farmer before he moved to Bensbyn, through either marriage or inheritance.


1575 in poetry

August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, 'Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, was the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.

Adolf of Nassau

Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg (1629-1676), son of Louis Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine FRS (1629–1681) was a Scottish inventor, politician, judge and freemason, responsible for developing the pendulum clock, in collaboration with Christiaan Huygens.

Anthonie Schetz

Until 1629 he was Spain's military governor of 's-Hertogenbosch, captain of a cavalry regiment and a knight of the order of Santiago.

Ardsley, New York

He had named Ardsley Park after the English birthplace of his immigrant ancestor, Zechariah Field (East Ardsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), who immigrated to the U.S. in 1629.

Carlo Farina

From 1629 to 1631, he was a prominent member of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn, until he returned to Italy, where he worked in Parma and later in Lucca until 1635.

Caspar Bartholin

Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585–1629), Danish theologian and medical professor

Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley

A memorial to Lord Worsley was erected in Britain, in All Saints Church, Brocklesby, Lincolnshire; it is a marble relief the 17th century style (to complement the adjacent Pelham family tomb of 1629), depicting Pelham, dressed in military uniform, kneeling at prayer, and was carved by the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger.

Colombian art

Another Seville native, Baltasar de Figueroa El Viejo (1629–1667), settled in Bogotá in the early 17th century and set up an artist's workshop.

Contrayerva

Dr. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688), in his treatise of the Great Plague of London (Loimologia; published in 1672), had a recipe which he said was very successful, and of which this root was one of the chief ingredients.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Don Juan de Austria

John of Austria the Younger (1629–1679), Spanish general and political figure

Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

David Hume of Godscroft (1558-1629), Scottish historian and philosopher, was the pastor in Duras 1604-1614.

Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

The chief military exploits of Frederick Henry were the sieges and captures of Grol in 1627, 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629, of Maastricht in 1632, of Breda in 1637, of Sas van Gent in 1644, and of Hulst in 1645.

Henry Sherfield

In 1629 he inflamed the situation by pointing out, on 7 February, that Richard Neile, bishop of Winchester, had inserted words into the pardons of Richard Montagu and others which freed them from the penalties of erroneous and unorthodox opinions.

History of American wine

The first vines of Vitis vinifera origin planted in what is now the United States were planted in Senecu in 1629, which is near the present day town of San Antonio, New Mexico.

James Ley

James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough (1552–1629), Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland and then in England; English Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer

Johannes Remus Quietanus

He sent copies of his Observationes et descriptiones duorum cometarum (1628) and Oeniponti (1629), intended for Galileo, to Federico Cesi and Giovanni Faber in Rome.

John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk

Howard was the third (but second surviving) son of Capt. Philip Howard of the Royal Marines, grandson of Philip Howard.

Kemayoran

The area that was known as Kemayoran was formerly a land owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) commander, Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin (ca 1629–96).

Krzysztof Michał Sapieha

Before his death, he had a promising career - political (Sejm deputy of 1629 and 1630, official from 1630) and literary - author of a (now lost) history of the False Dmitriys and a philosophical text.

Loimologia

Loimologia, or, an historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion is a treatise by Dr. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688), originally published in London in Latin (Loimologia, sive, Pestis nuperæ apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica) in 1672; an English translation was later published in London in 1720.

Lomazzo

Other good canvasses embellish the small lateral church of Saint Joseph, built in 1629, with contemporary decoration.

Louis Phélypeaux, seigneur de La Vrillière

He was the son of Raymond Phélypeaux (†1629), seigneur d'Herbault et de La Vrillière.

Lucas Holstenius

The popes sent him on various honorable missions, such as bearing the cardinal's hat to the nuncio at Warsaw in 1629, and Alexander VII sent him to Innsbruck to receive abjuration of Protestantism by the mercurial and tiresome Christina, former Queen of Sweden.

Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón

Luis Jerónimo Fernández de Cabrera Bobadilla Cerda y Mendoza, 4th Count of Chinchón (1589 in Madrid – October 28, 1647 in Madrid) was a Spanish nobleman and captain general and viceroy of Peru, from January 14, 1629 to December 18, 1639.

Marie de Miramion

Marie de Miramion (also known as Marie Bonneau, or Marie Bonneau de Rubella Beauharnais de Miramion), 1629-1696, was a seventeenth century French woman known for her piety and the organizations she founded.

Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine

He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Pont-à-Mousson, 1622–1629.

Phalsbourg

The principality was acknowledged by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II in 1629.

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach

Philip's first wife was Anna Margaretha of Diepholz; she died childless in 1629 and was buried in the town church at Butzbach.

Rayar bungalow

Venkoji (Marathi: व्यंकोजी/एकोजी १)(born 1629) or Ekoji I was the younger half-brother of Shivaji and founder of Maratha rule in Thanjavur.

Richard Bland

This branch of the Bland family first came to Virginia in 1654, when the father of Richard I, Theodorick Bland of Westover(1629–1671), emigrated from London and Spain, where he had been attending to the family mercantile and shipping enterprises.

Richard Newport

Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport (1587–1651), English peer, MP for Shropshire in 1614, 1624–1629 and for Shrewsbury

Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland

He had three children by his first marriage, including Lady Mary Weston (2 January 1603-after August 1678), who married the 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar in 1629, and Lady Elizabeth Weston, who married John Netterville, 2nd Viscount Netterville.

Richard Zouch

He took a leading part in William Laud's codification of the statutes of the university (1629–1633).

Robert Heath

From 1629 he was taking an entrepreneurial interest in the lead mines of Derbyshire, engaging Sir Cornelius Vermuyden as partner in a major drainage operation at Wirksworth, at the ore-rich Dovegang Rake.

Robert Spottiswoode

Sir Robert married in 1629 Bertha Morrison, eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Morrison of Preston Grange, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and wife Eleanor Maule.

Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

The Corsini, probably the richest family in Florence during the 17th–18th centuries, had this chapel built in 1675, to hold the remains of St. Andrew Corsini, O.Carm. (1301–1374), a member of the family who became a Carmelite friar and the Bishop of Fiesole, who had been canonized in 1629.

Shah Abbas

Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah (king) of Iran, and the greatest ruler of the Safavid dynasty

Sir Valentine Blake, 3rd Baronet

He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 19 July 1628, was knighted on 3 October 1629, and sat in the Parliament of Ireland of 1634–35 as MP either for Tuam or Galway county.

St. Egidien, Nuremberg

After the Peace of Augsburg there were two unsuccessful attempts to recover the former monastic estates for the Benedictine order, firstly in 1578 by the Scottish Bishop John Lesley on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots, and from 1629 to 1631 by a Commission for the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg to implement a Roman Catholic Restitution Edict.

Stewartstown, County Tyrone

Roughan Castle was built circa 1618 by Sir Andrew Stewart (d. 1639), 2nd Lord Castlestewart, eldest son of Andrew Stewart (1580–1629), 3rd Lord Ochiltree, 1st Lord Castlestewart, who came from Scotland during the plantation and established the nearby town of Stewartstown.

Thado Dhamma Yaza

Thalun: Viceroy of Prome (r. 1620–1628), King of Burma (r. 1629–1648)

Thomas Lambe

From 1629-1639 he was frequently in trouble with the Archdeacon’s Court in Colchester for preaching outside of the bounds of the Church of England during the time that the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud was seeking to impose uniformity upon the churches in England.

Thomas Master

After 1629, he was ordained and in 1637 became rector of Wykeham, Lincolnshire.

Treaty of Suza

This treaty, signed on March 11, 1629 following the French capture of the city, was agreed between Louis XIII of France and Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy.

William Lockhart Garwood

1629 (President Jimmy Carter previously had nominated Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr. to the seat, but the United States Senate had declined to act on Jefferson's nomination before Carter's presidency ended).

Ziridava

In 1868, in the middle of the old Cenad village, while digging the foundations of the new church, a variety of Roman objects were found, including bricks, many stamped with Legio XIII Gemina (CIL, III, 1629, 1018, 8065), a sarcophagus fragment, a fragmentary stone inscription (CIL, III, 6272) and a denarius of Faustina.


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