Netherlandish Proverbs | One winds on the distaff what the other spins ( Both spread gossip ) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

In 1615, the shipwreck and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors, and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.

Some examples include the " Pieter Both " mountain, the " Vandermeersh " region near Rose-Hill as well as many other names.

Pieter Both had to investigate the case.

Both Charles McNider and Pieter Anton Cross train owls as sidekicks.

When the newly founded Dutch East India Company set up a government for the Dutch East Indies, Pieter Both was invited to become the Governor-General.

Two of the ships were shipwrecked near Mauritius, and Pieter Both drowned.

The second highest mountain of Mauritius is named Pieter Both after him.

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* Pieter Both, Dutch politician

Jan Brueghel the Elder (; 1568 – 13 January 1625 ) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger.

The Peasant Wedding, by Flemish people | Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1567 or 1568

Peasant Dance, c. 1568, oil on wood, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

The Beekeepers, 1568, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The end of the period is disputed: many scholars extend it to the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1569, or the start of the Dutch Revolt in 1566 or 1568, or to the start of the 17th century.

* 1886 – Pieter Oud, Dutch politician ( d. 1968 )

* 1629 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter ( d. 1684 )

* 1984 – Pieter Dirkx, Belgian film director

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

* 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer ( d. 1647 )

* 1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1865 )

* 1714 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist ( d. 1778 )

‪ File: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. jpg ‬| Hendrik Lorentz ( 1853 – 1928 ): clarified electromagnetic theory of light, shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, developed concept of local time, derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time .‬‬‬

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

* October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1865 )

* Physics – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman

* January 12 – Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa ( d. 2006 )

* September 21 – Pieter Vreede, Dutch politician ( b. 1750 )

* June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist ( b. 1714 )

* March 31 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar ( b. 1668 )

* October 13 – Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist ( d. 1778 )

* March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian ( d. 1647 )

* September 9 – Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter

* May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian ( b. 1581 )

* April – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch artist ( d. 1780 )

Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit ( 1580 – August 5, 1638 ) was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves.

In his De Groote Schouburgh ( 1718 – 21 ), Arnold Houbraken mentions Philips Wouwerman, Adriaen Brouwer, Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Adriaen van Ostade and Dirck van Delen as students.

Some other interesting buildings are the town hall ( Stadhuis ), a 16th-century building that was badly damaged by a fire in 1929 but has its Renaissance façade designed by Lieven de Key still standing ; the Gemeenlandshuis van Rijnland ( 1596, restored in 1878 ); De Waag ( weigh house in Dutch ), built by Pieter Post ; the former court-house ( Gerecht ); a corn-grinding windmill, now home to a museum ( Molen de Valk ) ( 1743 ); the old gymnasium ( Latijnse School ) ( 1599 ) and the city carpenter's yard and wharf ( Stadstimmerwerf ) ( 1612 ), both built by Lieven de Key ( c. 1560 – 1627 ).