January 27 » Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
January 31 » Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.
April 10 » The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
April 12 » The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
December 19 » The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
December 20 » The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
February 13 » Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
March 1 » Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
June 18 » Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
June 22 » The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
October 22 » The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
March 13 » Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
May 7 » Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
September 5 » War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
September 11 » Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history.
November 9 » Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
December 2 » St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.
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