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| Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s - 1620s - 1630s 1640s 1650s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- March 4 - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia.
- March 10 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
- End of the reign of Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
- Empress Meisho ascends to the throne of Japan
Births
- March 9 - Tsar Aleksey I of Russia (d. 1676)
- April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)
- May 8 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)
- August 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (d. 1696)
- September 9 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- September 21 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1694)
- September 30 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (d. 1681)
- Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (d. 1718)
Deaths
- January 27 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
- June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (b. 1577)
- July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
- September 21 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. (b. 1587)
- October 2 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
- October 2 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
- October 3 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military commander (b. 1570)
- November - Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter
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