January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
April 25 » Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
May 24 » One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
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