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What Happened in March 1616

Historical Events

Historic Event

Mar 5 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index

Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomer and Mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus

Historic Event

Mar 20 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

Walter Raleigh
Explorer Walter Raleigh

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 6 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer, born in Creibitz, Bohemia (now Chřibská, Czech Republic (d. 1685)
  • Mar 29 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1655)

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 6 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
  • Mar 8 Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire, dies at 41


What Happened in 1616

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