Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.
Some Notable Events in 1625
3 February. Francesca Caccini`s opera La liberaziune di Ruggiero has its premiere in Florence.
11 February. Dutch-Portuguese War: One of the largest naval battles ever fought in the Persian Gulf takes place in the Straits of Hormuz as fleets of the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company defend Persia against an attack by ships from the colony of Portuguese India.
7 March. Died. Johann Bayer, German lawyer and uranographer (b.1572).
21 March. James Ussher is appointed Archblshop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.
27 March. Died. King James VI & I (b.1566). He is succeeded by Charles I.
18 April. Born. Sir John Baber, English physician to Charles II (d.1704).
9 May. Born. George Pitt, English politician (d.1694).
5 June. Died. Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (b.1583).
13 June. King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
18 June. The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
23 June. Born. John Fell, English churchman and influential academic (d.1686).
July. The Barbary pirates attack south-western EngIand and in August they enslave about 60 people from Mount’s Bay in Cornwall.
27 July. Born. Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (d.1672).
18 August. Died. Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (b.1556).
6 September. Died. Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b.1579).
8 September. The Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, against Spain.
2 October. Born. Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass, English noble (d.1687).
1-7 November. Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.
12 November. Born. Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (d.1684).
9 December. Thirty Years’ War: The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of The Hague, a military peace treaty for providing economic aid to King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway, during his military campaigns in Germany.
Unknown Date. The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town will transform into a piece of New York City.
Unknown Date. In England, a very high tide occurs, the highest ever known in the Thames, and the sea walls in Kent, Essex, and Lincolnshire are breached, causing great desolation.
