Major Events
- Jan 23 Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco, Brazil
- Feb 2 Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las" premieres in Madrid
- Feb 15 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
- May 13 Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife
- May 26 Mystic Massacre: in 1st battle of Pequot War in Connecticut about 500 Pequot Native Americans are killed by Colonial forces
- Aug 28 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquers Fort Elmina, West Africa
- Oct 7 Prince of Orange Frederick Henry occupies Breda during the Eighty Years' War
- Nov 7 Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic
- Nov 20 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
- Dec 17 Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu
Did You Know?Born in 1637
- Feb 10 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau and daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, born in The Hague (d. 1708)
- Feb 12 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist and entomologist (Bible of Nature), born in Amsterdam (d. 1680)
- Mar 5 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting), born in Gorinchem, South Holland (d. 1712)
- Mar 12 Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
- Apr 15 Valentin Molitor, Swiss composer, born in Rapperswil, Switzerland (d. 1713)
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