August 5 » The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
September 16 » Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
November 8 » The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
November 9 » Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
November 11 » The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
November 21 » Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
January 10 » Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.
May 20 » Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
June 14 » English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
July 21 » Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
August 3 » Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
September 13 » Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
June 2 » Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
July 30 » Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
August 12 » Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
September 19 » Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
November 21 » The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
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