Deaths on January 26

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul

Died on January 26, 1636

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul (1552 – 26 January 1636) was a French diplomat. Although he came from a Calvinist family, who had been exiled during the French Wars of Religion, Jean, through cultivating connections with Henry IV eventually was restored to a portion of his patrimony.

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Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul

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Events on 1636

30 Apr

Siege of Schenkenschans
Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
4 Oct

Battle of Wittstock
The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
28 Oct

Massachusetts Bay Colony
A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

Deaths on January 26

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul

Died on January 26, 1636

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Events on 1636

Siege of Schenkenschans

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