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What Happened in February 1588

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Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 19 Pieter de Carpentier, Dutch administrator (Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies 1623-27, Gulf of Carpentaria named after him), born in Antwerp (d. 1659)
  • Feb 26 Nicolaus Erich, German composer, born in Andisleben, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. Holy Roman Empire (d. 1631)
Born in 1588

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 9 Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis of Santa Cruz, most important Spanish admiral of his day, dies at 61
  • Feb 10 Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant and regent, dies at about 82
  • Feb 24 Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist


What Happened in 1588

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