March 1 » Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
May 30 » From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
August 22 » Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
September 23 » The first commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
November 13 » First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
December 13 » Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
May 19 » The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
July 31 » Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
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