PEACH

History

1628

Population: 543 Million*

Entertainment: Writerss include Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (Spanish comedy), Johann Amos Comenius (primary education), Robert Cotton Life of Henry III, René Descartes, Henry Spelman (law terms)
Art includes Frans Hals "Gypsy Woman", Nicholas Poyssin "Martyrdom of St. Erasmus", Velazquez "Christ on the Cross"
Music includes Marco da Gagliano "Flora" opera, Heinrich Schutz becomes Monteverdi's musical pupil in Venice
Medicine: William Harvey announces discovery of blood circulation in An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals
Religion: William Laud made bishop of London
Ignatius Loyola canonized by Pope Gregory XV
Science: Bartholinus publishes work on the unicorn and other animals
Deaths: Composer John Bull, Poet François de Malherbe, Duke of Buckingham

First harbor with sluices being constructed at Le Havre,

General: French offensives against Spanish and imperialist territories begin
Thirty Years' War – Catholics under Counts Tilly and Wallenstein subdue most Protestant Germany
Czechoslovakia: Andrea Spezza builds Waldstein Palace in Prague
New Bohemian Constitution confirms hereditary rule of Habsburg family
Denmark: Swedish-Danish treaty for defense of Stralsund – Gustavus Adolphus enters Thirty Years' War
England: Petition of Right in England curtails kings powers and forbids taxes without approval
Oliver Cromwell enters Parliament for Huntingdon
Charles receives grant of money to help with wars against Spain and France
Duke of Buckingham assassinated embarking at Portsmouth with another La Rochelle expedition
Richard Weston made Lord Treasurer – Sir Dudley Carleton made chief secretary of state
Alexandrian Codex presented to Charles I by patriarch of Constantinople
Duke of Buckingham assassinated
France: Huguenots surrender to Richelieu at La Rochelle losing all political power
French under Cardinal Richelieu repress Huguenot rebellion
German States: Wallenstrin obtains duchy of Mecklenburg and assumes title Admiral of the Baltic – begins siege of Stralsund
Wallenstein's first reverse – siege of Stralsund is raised
Braemar Castle built
Salzburg Cathedral completed
Greece: Eruption of Kalliste with tsunami - Minoan volcano