May 13 » Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
June 10 » Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
July 30 » In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
August 28 » Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
November 7 » Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
December 4 » Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
February 2 » Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
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.
October 8 » Jeanne Mance open the first lay hospital in North America.
March 19 » Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
July 5 » Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
August 12 » Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
September 26 » Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
December 31 » The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
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