The book explores the reactions of the Roman Catholic hardliners to Pope Urban VIII's actions in tolerating the new freedom of religion taking root in Central Europe during the climax of The Galileo Affair.
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Following the events of 1634: The Galileo Affair, Pope Urban VIII had been won over to the actions of the Americans after being saved from his attempted assassination and his subsequent pardon of Galileo Galilei.
The novel takes place after the events of 1635: The Cannon Law, in which French Huguenot extremist Michel Ducos came close to assassinating Pope Urban VIII and forced to flee with his followers from Rome.
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The leaders of the French Huguenot group under Ducos settled in Scotland making plans to embarrass Cardinal Richelieu.
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Meanwhile, Duke Henri de Rohan, the highest ranking Huguenot, has his own group of agents monitoring events throughout Europe.
His hitherto-loyal chancellor Axel Oxenstierna takes the opportunity to seize power in an attempt to reverse the democratizing influence of the West Virginians, endangering the USE at a critical juncture.
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The prince and princess escape, though her mother, the queen Maria Eleonora, is murdered.
Some of the first settlers of this family name or its variants were: John Cosins who settled in Maryland in 1683; Richard Cousin settled in Grenada in 1774; Edward Cousins settled in Maryland in 1774; George Cousins settled in Massachusetts in 1635.
Adam Contzen (17 April 1571, Monschau (Montjoie), Duchy of Jülich—19 June 1635, Munich) was a German Jesuit economist and exegete.
In 1635 he managed the construction of the royal palace at Ujazdów.
Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma (1635–1689), governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
Sir John Campbell, 5th Baronet (1635-1717) (created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in 1681)
In 1635 the Carib were overwhelmed in turn by French forces led by the adventurer Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc and his nephew Jacques Dyel du Parquet, who imposed French colonial rule on the indigenous Carib peoples.
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.
Becoming marquis de Montausier at the death of his elder brother in 1635, he was the recognised aspirant for the hand of the Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet|
1674: Madame de Maintenon (1635–1719) bought the marquisate from the previous;
Christen Bentsen Schaaning (or Skaaning) (c. 1616-1679) was a priest at Avaldsnes in Norway from 1635-1679.
Daniel Mögling born 1596 in Böblingen, died 1635 in Butzbach, was an alchemist and a Rosicrucian.
Sant'Angelo in Vado in 1635 became a city, and then an episcopal see.
Domenico Robusti, also known as Domenico Tintoretto, (1560 - 17 May 1635) was an Italian painter from Venice.
Argyll bestowed the Lordship of Kintyre on James, his eldest son by his second marriage, who, in 1635, at Dunaverty, granted a charter of the Lordship to Viscount Dunluce, eldest son of Randal MacDonnell, 1st Earl of Antrim.
Province of New York: in 1664 the Duke of York, James II of England, purchased Long Island and other lands granted Stirling in 1635.
Two English emblem books were published in 1635, the famous Emblems of Francis Quarles, and George Wither's A collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne.
Van Dyck painted one other major portrait of Charles I with a horse: Charles I at the Hunt (Le Roi à la chasse, c.1635, now in the Louvre), which depicts Charles standing next to a horse in civilian clothing, as if resting on a hunt, wearing a wide-brimmed Cavalier hat and leaning on a walking cane, gazing at a coastal scene; a picture of "gentlemanly nonchalance and regal assurance".
However, the Spanish fleet mobilised more quickly and Spain seized the Lérins in September 1635.
The story of Jason and Medea was familiar in many dramatic treatments in France, beginning with Pierre Corneille's version of Euripides in 1635.
Rembrandt lived in this street from 1631 to 1635, at the home of art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh, and again from 1639 to 1656, in his own house, built in 1606 and standing today.
The first recorded owner was Samuel Jordan, who with his wife, Cecily, her two daughters, and their adult male servants, took up residence around 1620, Samuel Jordan died in 1623, and his widow married William Farrar, who moved to Jordan’s Journey, which appears to have been abandoned by 1635.
Joannes Florentius a Kempis (circa 1635-1711), Baroque composer, son of Nicholaus à Kempis
Sarah Kingsberry was the first family member born in the New World, and was born in 1635 in modern day Boston.
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Joseph Kingsberry, who may have been Sir Ralf of Bracebridge's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson, is found in a search party of the Charles River in 1635.
Marco da Gagliano La Giuditta 1626; three-act opera (lost), libretto Andrea Salvadori, used as the basis for the Judith of Martin Opitz (1635).
His wealth enabled him to found 11 ships to king Władysław IV in 1635, the core of the Polish fleet.
By all probability, until 1635 he was staying in Grenoble as he was a royal counselor in the Dauphiné parliament (conseiller du roi en la cour de parlement de Dauphiné).
It is named after Ferenc Mikó (1585–1635), who began building it a decade after becoming supreme captain of the Csíkszék (Ciuc), Gyergyószék (Gheorgheni) and Kászonszék (Caşin) Székely seats, later merged into Csík County.
About the year of 1635, it appears that a group of Monongahela refugees resettled in south-central Virginia at Halifax County.
Murtaza Shah III, was a Nizam Shahi boy prince who in the year 1635 became the nominal Sultan of Ahmadnagar, he was subjected to the authority of the Maratha leader Shahaji.
"Internetworking with TCP/IP" (German) taught by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel (>9,800 enrolled participants, 1635 certificates granted).
From 1635, Piedmont had been forced to join France in its war against Spain, fighting principally against Spanish-controlled former Duchy of Milan, though its ruler, Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy, avoided formally declaring war on Spain.
In addition to the 1306 charter erecting the barony, Crown Charters confirming the barony were issued by James II in 1464, Edward IV in 1483, James VI in 1613 and 1620, Charles I in 1635, and George II in 1755.
Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1577–1635/5), English nobleman and political figure
In 1635, Owersby-based local landowner, Sir John Monson drained the Ancholme valley by cutting a straight new channel making two rivers at Brigg, which made the town less vulnerable to flooding.
Brooke married second, on May 11, 1635, Mary Mainwaring, daughter of Roger Mainwaring (1582–1653), Dean of Worcester and Bishop of St David's, and his wife Cecilia Proper.
His paternal side descends in the ninth generation from early English Puritan Deacon Samuel Chapin who arrived in America, from Devonshire, between 1633–1635, and was later one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts.
A monument with lively recumbent effigy exists in the parish church of Thomas Chafe (1585-1648) of Dodscott, whose sister Pascoe Chafe was the wife of his neighbour Tristram Risdon (d.1635) of Winscott.
France saw the founding of the Académie française (1635) and the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1663); In England, the formation of the Royal Society (1660), the earliest known Masonic lodges, and the earliest schools for girls were varying expressions of this same trend.
It was painted between 1634 and 1635 and commemorates the recapture of the Brazilian port of Salvador da Bahia from the Dutch by Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza in May 1625 and its return to the Portuguese Empire.
Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 2nd Baronet (c. 1635–1682), one of few men to received a renewal of the baronetcy from the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
Old Tom Parr (1483(reputedly)–1635), English supercentenarian who claimed to have lived for 152 years
In 1631, Wilhelm lost Baden to the Swedish General Gustav Horn and regained control only after the Peace of Prague (1635) and the Peace of Westphalia on 24 October 1648.
Wolfgang Ratke (also Ratchius or Wolfgang Ratich) (18 October 1571 – 27 April 1635) was a German educational reformer.