Events from 1622

Prince Charles and Buckingham secret journey to Madrid for Spanish Match - Protestant horror at future king courting Catholic bride - Meanwhile Frederick loses all hereditary lands

Jesuits recover Heidelberg Library - Frederick's hermetic paradise destroyed - 3,500 manuscripts sent to Vatican - 'Jesuits conquered through learning what they could not by force'

William Oughtred invents slide rule - combines logarithmic scales for multiplication and division, used until 1970s

Death of St. Francis de Sales - Doctor of the Church, patron of writers and journalists