Historical Events In 1644

Jan 10   Louis Boufflers, marshall of France   

Jan 18   1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston.   

Jan 18   Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's inaugural UFO sighting.   

Jan 24   Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win.   

Jan 24   Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win   

Jan 30   William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies   

Feb 05   1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut   

Feb 05   inaugural US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut   

Mar 05   Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73.   

Mar 07   Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies   

Mar 07   Massachusetts establishes inaugural 2-chamber legislature in colonies   

Mar 14   England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).   

Mar 18   Gottfried Wegner, composer   

Mar 19   200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide   

Mar 19   Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide   

Mar 24   Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies   

Mar 30   Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 defeats a large band of marauding Iroquois on the site of the Place d'Armes; aided by force of 30 settlers; they had massacred several habitant families.   

Mar 31   Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara   

Apr 17   Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized   

Apr 29   Farm leader Li Zicheng is recorded as becoming emperor of China and flees Peking   

May 06   Johan Mauritius steps down as Governor of Brazil   

May 23   Johan Mauritius van Nassau steps down as head of Civil rights activists.   

May 23   Thomas Eisenhut, composer   

May 28   Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.   

Jun 11   Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer   

Jun 16   Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54   

Jul 02   Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar.   

Jul 02   Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.   

Jul 02   Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.   

Jul 02   William Gascoigne introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24   

Jul 02   William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24.   

Jul 12   Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals).   

Jul 29   Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies.   

Aug 05   J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61.   

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Jan 10   On this day in history birth of louis Boufflers, marshall of France   

Mar 18   Gottfried Wegner, composer was born in the year 1644.   

Mar 20   Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on this day in history.   

Apr 07   On this day in history birth of françois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)   

Apr 17   In the year 1644 birth of abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized   

May 23   On this day in history birth of thomas Eisenhut, composer   

Jun 16   On this day in history birth of henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)   

Jul 02   In the year 1644 birth of abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar   

Jan 30   William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies in the year 1644.   

Mar 05   In the year 1644 louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73   

Mar 19   Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide died on this day in history.   

Mar 24   On this day in history cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies   

Jun 16   Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54 in the year 1644.   

Jul 02   In the year 1644 death of william Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24   

Jul 29   Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies in the year 1644.   

Aug 05   On this day in history j Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61