Deaths on May 21

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Died on May 21, 1647

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (16 March 1581 – 21 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.

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Events on 1647

14 Mar

Truce of Ulm (1647)
Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
11 May

Dutch colonization of the Americas
Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.