16th of August 1625. Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed stadtholder of Drenthe.
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15th of August 1625. Death of Mary Cholmondeley, English lady, litigant over her inheritance (born 1563). The women pictured in "The Cholmondeley Ladies", painted c. 1600-1610, are said to be Mary's daughters or nieces.
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6th of August 1625. Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed as stadtholder of Groningen.
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5th of August 1625. Thirty Years' War: The Duke of Feria's army is stopped by the Duke of Savoy, entrenched between Verrua and Crescentino on the Po.
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25th of July 1625. Albrecht Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, is appointed Field Marshal and Generalissimo by the Emperor and tasked with raising an army.
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16th of July 1625. France: Naval victory of Soubise against the royal fleet, assisted by the Dutch ships of Admiral Haultain off La Rochelle. Soubise managed to blow up the Dutch ship under Vice-Admiral Philipps Van Dorp, with a loss of 300 Dutch sailors.
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Marriage contract of Charles I and Henriette Marie de France, July 4, 1625. National Archives of France.
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30th of June or 1st of July 1625. The Safavid Empire in Iran defeats an invasion from the Kingdom of Georgia in the Battle of Marabda with heavy losses on both sides, including the Georgian commander, Teimuraz I, Prince of Mukhrani.
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25th of June 1625. Canada: Death of Nicolas Viel, a French Recollect missionary to the Huron Indians, who died when his canoe capsized (possibly killed by natives).
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25th of June 1625. France: The provincial assembly of Protestants of the Cévennes, convened by Rohan in Anduze, votes for union with La Rochelle.
19th of June 1625. Arrival of the first Jesuits in Canada. They are Fathers Énemond Massé, Jean de Brébeuf and Charles Lalemant. (Picture shows Jean de Brébeuf)
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18th of June 1625. England: Charles I's first Parliament meets. The Commons vote tonnage and poundage (taxes) for one year only instead of for the rest of the king's life: the king has to take out a forced loan.
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Mid June 1625. London: The numbers of those dying of the plague has reached a weekly figure of 165.
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14th of June 1625. Incident at Amiens during which "the Duke of Buckingham shows himself to be too assertive with Anne of Austria". At Amiens, "Buckingham climbed into a private garden", and "may even have tried to rape her", although "Anne's shrieks summoned her attendants."
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13th of June 1625. England: Marriage in person of King Charles I and the Catholic Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra, at Canterbury.
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12th of June 1625. Henrietta Maria, escorted by the Duke of Buckingham and with many French attendants, lands in Dover as King Charles's bride.
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11th of June 1625. Dover, England: King Charles meets his young wife, Henrietta Maria of France, for the first time before their official wedding ceremony in Canterbury.
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9th of June 1625. Birth of Sarah Rapelje, the "first white child" born in New Netherland (died 1685). (Medallion given to Sarah Rapelje on occasion of her marriage to Hans Hansen Bergen, 1639.)
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June 1625. Quebec: The first Jesuit missionaries in the colony arrive: Fathers Jean de Brébeuf, Charles Lalemant, and Enemond Massé, and brothers François Charton and Gilbert Burel. (Map of New France)
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5th of June 1625. Eighty Years' War: Spanish troops under Ambrogio Spinola conquer Breda, after a nine-month siege. ("The Surrender of Breda" by Velazquez)
5th of June 1625. Canterbury, England: Orlando Gibbons, one of the most celebrated composers of sacred music, dies aged 42; one of his best known compositions is "Hosanna to the Son of David".
4th of June 1625. France: The provincial assembly meeting in Castres confirms the appointment of Henri II de Rohan as general of the Reformed Churches. (Equestrian portrait of Henri II de Rohan)
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2nd of June 1625. Death of Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warrior (born in 1553).
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2nd of June 1625. Prince Frederick Henry is sworn in as the stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland.
2nd of June 1625. The terms of capitulation in the Siege of Breda are signed by Ambrogio Spinola and Justin of Nassau, bringing an end to the siege. ("Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia at the siege of Breda" by Peter Snayers.)
1st of June 1625. Death of Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist (born in 1568).
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24th of May 1625. The Duke of Buckingham arrives in Paris to escort England’s new Queen, Henrietta-Maria, to London. (Henrietta-Maria was the daughter of French King Henry IV and later the mother of Charles II and James II.)
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15th of May 1625. The “Frankenburg Dice Game,” in which 36 alleged ringleaders of the Frankenburg Uprising had to gamble against each other for their lives, was the prelude to the Upper Austrian Peasants’ War the following year. (The scene of the Frankenburg dice game)
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7th of May 1625. Westminster: King James's funeral takes place at the abbey after a magnificent procession through the City of London; the occasion is marred by the refusal of the archbishop of St Andrews to take part, following the orders of King Charles that English vestments must be worn.
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24th of April 1625. First Savoine War – Relief of Genoa: The Spanish fleet aids the Republic of Genoa, by overcoming the Franco-Savoyard occupation of the city of Genoa. ("Relief of Genoa by the Marquis of Santa Cruz" by Antonio de Pereda.)
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