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De Revolutionibus

Mar 5 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index

Astronomer and Mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus

Walter Raleigh Released

Mar 20 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

Explorer Walter Raleigh

Events in 1616

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 6 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer, born in Creibitz, Bohemia (now Chřibská, Czech Republic (d. 1685)
  • Mar 29 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1655)
Born in 1616

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 6 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
  • Mar 8 Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 41


What Happened in 1616

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