March 1 » Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
April 15 » Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
May 30 » From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
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.
June 26 » After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
August 17 » Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
September 14 » Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
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