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Jan 09 Christoph Buel, composer. 
Jan 17 Robert Fludd, composer
Jan 23 Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter
Jan 29 Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet.
Jan 29 Sea battle of Reimerswaal.
Feb 09 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
Feb 18 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels.
Feb 19 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Neth.
Feb 19 Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Netherlands.
Feb 21 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders
Feb 21 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders.
Feb 23 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots
Mar 05 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies.
Mar 05 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
Mar 07 John Wilbye, composer
Apr 14 Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
Apr 14 Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle
Apr 17 Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies.
Apr 21 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54.
May 07 Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55).
May 30 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies.
May 30 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France.
May 30 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot).
Jun 18 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
Jul 08 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
Aug 30 Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
Sep 13 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
Sep 16 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)
Sep 17 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies
Sep 18 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet
Oct 01 -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20000 Spanish soldiers.
Oct 01 Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies.
Oct 03 Fleet under admiral Boisot seize Spanish.
Oct 21 Nicolo Rubini, composer
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