March 12 » Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
March 22 » Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
April 22 » The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
June 24 » Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
December 18 » Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
December 22 » The town of Bucaramanga, Colombia, is founded by Andres Paes de Sotomayor.
April 27 » The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
August 13 » Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
September 3 » Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles I of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
December 14 » Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.
May 2 » King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
June 1 » In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
June 15 » The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta.
December 31 » The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
January 28 » Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) was destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo).
April 30 » Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
May 9 » Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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