April 4 » Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
April 9 » Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
May 20 » Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
July 9 » Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
July 25 » The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
February 13 » With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
March 16 » The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
April 4 » Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
April 23 » Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
November 28 » At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
December 8 » A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
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