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.
April 26 » English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
September 4 » The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
October 5 » Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
February 22 » Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems .
March 29 » Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
April 15 » Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
July 23 » Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
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