The Statue of Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) in Greenwich, London. Photo credit Loco Steve
In the year 1618, Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary emotion (Mar 8), the Defenestration of Prague influences significantly the history of Europe and leads eventually to the Thirty Years' War, polarizing Europe on religious grounds (May 23), the English playwright Ben Jonson sets out on his walk from London to Edinburgh, Scotland – an unheard undertaking at the time (Jul 8), **Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded in London for allegedly conspiring against the King in 1603 **(Oct 29), the Thirty Year’s War goes on – and all these fine people were born:
1618-xxxx Thomas Blood* officer best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London – County Clare, Kingdom of Ireland (1680/62)
1618-0102 Jean Hamon* physician/ writer - Cherbourg, Kingdom of France (1687/69)
1618-0108 Madeleine Béjart* French actress/theatre director - Paris, Kingdom of France (1672/54)
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1618-0212 Olaus Verelius* scholar of Northern antiquities/publisher of the first Old Norse-Swedish dictionary - Jönköping, Sweden (1682/63)
1618-0219 Johannes Phocylides Holwarda* Dutch astronomer/ physician/philosopher - Holwert, Friesland (1651/32)
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1618-0319 Thomas Hinckley* the last governor of the Plymouth Colony - Tenterden, Kent, England (1706/88)
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1618-0402 Francesco Maria Grimaldi* Jesuit priest/mathematician/physicist - Bologna, Papal States (1663/45)
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1618-0522 Henrik Horn* military leader/governor – Sweden (1693/74)
1618-0531 Johann IV* German nobleman/count of Rietberg - Ostfriesland (1660/42)
1618-0601 Johann Franck* German politician/ poet/hymnist - Guben, Margraviate of Lower Lusatia (1677/58)
1618-0610
1618-0615 François Blondel* soldier/ engineer/architect – Ribemont, France (1686/67)
1618-0620
1618-0628 Jean Le Pautre (B) designer/ engraver - Paris, Kingdom of France (1682/63)
1618-0701
1618-0721 Hayashi Gahō* 林 鵞峰 Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher - Kyoto (1680/c. 62)
1618-0722 Johan Nieuhof* Dutch traveler/ travel writer (Brazil) - Uelsen, Lower Saxony (1672/54)
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1618-0824 Gustaf Persson Banér* Swedish nobleman/military leader - Swedish Empire (1689/70)
1618-0906 Walter Hoyt* founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut/came to America at age ten – West Hatch, Somerset, England (1698)
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1618-0927 Jacob Alting* Dutch linguist/theologian – Heidelberg, Germany (1679/60)
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1618-0929 Michiel Sweerts* Flemish painter/ printmaker - Brussels (1664/45)
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1618-1007 Rosina Schnorr* German businesswoman/philanthropist - Schneeberg, Saxony (1679/61)
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1618-1031 Mariana de Jesús de Paredes* Catholic saint/the first person to be canonized from what is now Ecuador - Quito, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire (1645/26)
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1618-1103 Aurangzeb* the sixth Mughal emperor - Dahod, Mughal Empire (1707/88)
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1618-1126 Johan Frederik von Marschalck* Norwegian government official/landowner/the last Chancellor of Norway - Bremervörde, Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, Holy Roman Empire (1679/60)
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1618-1226 Elisabeth of the Palatinate* a.k.a. Elisabeth of Bohemia - Heidelberg, Electorate of the Palatinate (1680/61)
1618-1228 Catharina Hooft* Dutch noblewoman - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1691/72)
Updated 16.2.2023-1
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