January 28 » Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
March 7 » A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
May 26 » The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
July 6 » French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
July 13 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
September 10 » German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .
May 18 » In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
May 20 » The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
May 30 » Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
June 17 » Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
September 17 » Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
October 10 » Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
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