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| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists.
- March 22 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- June 6 - Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
- June 26 - July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany to aid Protestants.
- July 6 - Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, MBC.
- July 8 - The MBC celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day.
- September 17 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
- September 24 - First ship of de Sauce's emigrants arrive at Southampton Hundred on the James River (the colony will not prosper; believed to have dispersed later).
- November 10-November 11 – Day of Dupes – Marie de Medicis' unsuccessful attempt to oust Richelieu.
- Johann Heinrich Alsted's Encyclopaedia is published.
- The first account of the Childes Tomb story is published.
- Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British.
- Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes "", an attack on Anglican bishops, in London. He was sentenced by Archbishop William Laud's High Commission Court to public whipping, branding,and having his ears cut off.
Births
- January 11 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard (d. 1684)
- February 19 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
- April 28 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
- May 29 - King Charles II of England Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
- August 1 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
- October 14 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1714)
- October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1694)
- November 24 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
- November 27 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (d. 1665)
Deaths
- January 26 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
- February 12 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
- February 26 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
- April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (b. 1552)
- July 16 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
- September 17 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- September 18 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
- September 20 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
- September 25 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b. 1569)
- November 15 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (b. 1571)
- November 19 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
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