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Warrant for Christopher Marlowe
May 18 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
Famous Birthdays
- May 20 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist (after Rubens and Anthony van Dyck the leading Flemish painter), born in Antwerp (d. 1678)
- May 20 Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
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