Person report

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Name	Elisabeth Pedersdatter Hegelund
Age	63
Born	29 Aug 1577
Died	01 Mar 1641
Parents	Peder Hegelund

Relatives

Image	Name	Relationship to current person	Age	Birth date	Birth place	Death date	Death place	First marriage date	First marriage place
	Peder Hegelund	father
	Jacob Jensen Holm	husband	66	12 Mar 1543	Viborg	29 May 1609	Aalborg

World history

★19 Oct 1579
A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.

★22 Jun 1593
Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak, triggering the Long War.

★04 Oct 1602
Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish galleys in the Dover Straits.

★30 Jan 1607
Low-lying places around the coasts of the Bristol Channel of Britain were flooded, possibly by a tsunami, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.

★16 Mar 1621
Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, strolled into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English.

★24 Jun 1622
Dutch–Portuguese War: An outnumbered Portuguese force repelled a Dutch attack in the Battle of Macau, the only major military engagement that was fought between two European powers on the Chinese mainland.

★13 Aug 1624
Cardinal Richelieu became the chief minister to King Louis XIII, and transformed France's feudal political structure into one with a powerful central government.

★01 May 1625
Dutch–Portuguese War: After a month's siege, Portugal and Spain recaptured the city of Bahia in Brazil from the Dutch, who had taken it the previous year.

★29 Mar 1638
Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America.

★15 Apr 1638
A rebellion by Catholic Japanese peasants in Shimabara over increased taxes was put down by the Tokugawa shogunate, resulting in greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.

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