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Does the year 1625 ring a bell?

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Does the year 1625 ring a bell?

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  1. Was it when King Charles 1st became king of England Scotland and Ireland, I believe on March 27  1625AD.


  2. Year the Bible was first printed into the then English Language.  I have done a study on the same piece of the Bible through the centuries and it looks totally unrecognisable to us until the late 1800s!

  3. It was the year the bread in my bread bin was made.  Judging by the mould on it.

    Really have to throw that out tonight

  4. Just before my time  love

  5. Events of 1625

    January - June

    March 27 - Death of James I of England, succeeded by Charles Stuart Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

    April 4 - Stadtholder Frederick Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels.

    April 7 - Albrecht von Wallenstein is appointed German supreme commander.

    May 1

    Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia).

    Prince Frederick Henry is appointed stadtholder of Holland.

    May 11 - Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper Austria.

    May 15/16 - Rebellious farmers are hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper Austria.

    June 2 - Prince Frederick Henry is sworn in as the stadtholder of Holland and Zealand.

    June 5 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda.

    June 13 - Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarre.

    June 15 - Breda surrenders to the Spanish troops of general Ambrogio de Spinola.

    June 18 - The English Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.

    July - December

    August 6 - Earl Ernest Casimir is appointed as stadtholder of Groningen.

    August 16 - Ernest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed stadtholder of Drenthe.

    September 13 - A total of 16 rabbis (including Isaiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem.

    September 24 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico.

    October 8 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth, England to Cadiz.

    December 9 - The Netherlands and England sign a military peace treaty.

    Undated

    William Oughtred invents the slide rule.

    James Ussher becomes Archbishop of Armagh.

    The Dutch settle Manhattan, founding the town of New Amsterdam. The town would transform into a piece of what is now New York City.

    First Savoine War between the Republic of Genoa and the Duchy of Savoy.

    The Bohemian Revolt ends.

    Danish intervention starts.

    Huguenot revolt is suppressed.

  6. Not for me sorry!

  7. NAY''

  8. nice numbers

  9. that's when YOU were born, hahaha, you're ancient?

  10. Charles the first died.

  11. Anything to do with Big Ben or Quasimodo?

  12. Why would a year want to ring a bell and where is this d**n bell, i will ring it

  13. Jack Nicholson was born then?

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