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| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. (Possibly tsunami)
- April 25 - Battle of Gibraltar: Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet.
- April 26 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States.
- May 14 - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.
- June 8 - Newton Rebellion: 40-50 peasants killed by landowners Tresham family during protests against enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, UK - culmination of Midlands Revolt.
- August 13 - Ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River in Maine. English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony. The settlement lasts little more than a year before residents return to England in the first ocean going ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace, called The Virginia.
Unknown dates
- Ireland the Flight of the Earls
- Spain is effectively bankrupt.
- The British national anthem, God Save the King, is first sung.
- Rule of Andorra is passed jointly to the king of France and the Bishop of Urgell.
- Yaqob is defeated in battle and deposed by his cousin Susenyos, who then becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
- The Midlands Revolt against Enclosure - first use of the terms Levellers and Diggers.
Births
- January 10 - Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary to native Americans (died 1646)
- March 20 - Lady Alice Boyle, Irish noblewoman (died 1667)
- March 24 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1676)
- July 13 - Václav Hollar, Bohemian etcher (died 1677)
- November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (died 1658)
- November 15 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
- November 26 - John Harvard, American clergyman (died 1638)
- Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll (died 1661)
- Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
- John Boys, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
- John Dixwell, English judge and regicide (died 1689)
- Jan Kazimierz Krasinski, Polish nobleman (died 1669)
- Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (died 1693)
- Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (died 1667)
- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (died 1650)
- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died 1660)
Deaths
- March 11 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
- May 21 - John Rainolds, English scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
- June 10 - John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England
- June 30 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1538)
- August 22 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (born 1572)
- September 10 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer
- September 22 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (born 1535)
- Henry Chettle, English writer (born 1564)
- Edward Dyer, English courtier and poet
- Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia
- Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
- Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki, Polish philosopher (born 1530)
- Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (born 1562)
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