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CHIEF EVENTS OF JOHANNES VERMEER'S LIFE
HISTORIC EVENTS DURING HIS LIFE
1621 End of the Twelve Years' Truce.
Foundation of the (Dutch) West India Company.
1624 Cardinal Richelieu Minister of France.
1625 Death of Prince Maurice. Frederick Henry Stadtholder.
Adriaen Valerius: "Nederlandsche Gedenck-clanck".
Hugo Grotius: "De Iure Belli ac Pacis".
1626 Jan Steen born at Leiden.
Foundation of New Amsterdam.
1627 Beginning of the building activities of Frederick Henry, Honselaarsdijk, Rijs-
wijck, etc.
1628 Piet Hein takes the "Silver Fleet".
William Harvey discovers blood circulation.
1629 Bois-le-Duc ('s Hertogenbosch) taken by Frederick Henry.
April 14th: birth of Christiaen Huygens.
Jan Pietersz. Coen dies at Batavia.
Johannes Bollandus continues the "Lives of the Saints of the Roman Church".
1630 West India Company in Brazil.
1631 Acte de Survivance.
Rembrandt: "Simeon in the Temple" (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
1632 October 31st: Johannes Vermeer baptized at Delft.
October 24th: birth of Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek at Delft.
November 24th: birth of Spinoza at Amsterdam.
Rembrandt: "Dr. Tulp's Anatomical Lecture" (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Galileo Galilei: "Dialogo'.
The Athenaeum at Amsterdam dedicated.
Campaign along the Meuse.
1633 Prosperity of Dutch trade and towns.
1634 June 22nd: Rembrandt marries Saskia van Uylenburg.
Ant. van Diemen Governor-General of the East Indies.
1635 Pact with France.
Foundation of the "Académie Française".
1636 March 26th: Foundation of Utrecht University.
Corneille: "Le Cid".
1637 Birth of Jacob Swammerdam at Amsterdam.
Amsterdam theatre built by Jacob van Campen.
Translation of the Bible into Dutch finished.
Descartes: "Discours de la Méthode".
Breda taken by Frederick Henry.
1638 Vondel's "Gijsbrecht van Amstel" played for the first time at Amsterdam.
February 1st: death of Adriaen Brouwer at Antwerp.
Maria de' Medici in the Netherlands.
1639 Battle of the Downs.
1640 Jansenius: "Augustinius'.
May 30th: death of Rubens.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Johannes Vermeer, Painter of Delft 1632-1675. Contributors: P. T. A. Swillens - author. Publisher: Spectrum. Place of Publication: Utrecht. Publication Year: 1950. Page Number: 199.
    
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